ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The aim of this subject is presenting the different alternatives offered by the current state of technology regarding the setup of data centres or, more generally, any medium-large sized computer facility. The different configurations of servers (racks, blades …), storage systems, buses and networks will be studied. Also, a number mechanisms will be analyzed for measuring performance and maximize resource utilization. Finally, different standards for installation and maintenance of computer facilities will be studied.
1. Server formats: Racks and Blades:
a. Server formats
b. The Mainframe concept
c. Advantages of Blade technology
2. Introduction to Data Centres:
a. Data Centre design
b. Infrastructure planning and management
c. High availability
3. Virtualization and consolidation
a. Virtualization of servers
b. Virtualization of storage and networks
4. Technology and networks for data storage:
a. Hard disks: technology and standards
b. RAID
c. Storage networks
d. SAN and NAS
5. Backup and archiving
a. Backup
b. Archiving
c. Removable media management
6. Management and performance monitoring
a. Management tools
b. Monitoring
Practices:
-- Visit the Data Center at Altia headquarters, Vigo.
- Kailash Jayaswal. “Administering Data Centers: Servers, Storage, and Voice over IP”. Wiley. ISBN 978-0471771838. 2005.
- Barb Goldworm & Anne Skamarock. “Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs”. Wiley. ISBN 978-0471783954. 2007.
- Ulf Troppens & Rainer Erkens & Wolfgang Müller. „Storage Networks Explained: Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS iSCSI and InfiniBand”. Wiley. ISBN 978-0470861820. 2004.
Complementary:
- W. Curtis Preston. “Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems”. O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0596102463. 2007.
- René J. Chevance. “Server Architectures: Multiprocessors, Clusters, Parallel Systems, Web Servers, Storage Solutions”. Digital Press. ISBN 978-1555583330. 2004.
In this subject, the students should develop both global and specific skills directly related with the names:
CG1, CG2, CG4, CG6, CG7, CG9, CG10 and CG11;
TR1 and TR3;
FB5;
RI1, RI2, RI4, RI5, RI9 and RI11;
TI2, TI4 and TI5;
in the report of the USC entitled "Memoria del Grado en Ingeniería Informática". Students should also develop skills from the "Ingeniería de Computadores" module:
- To understand the different technological alternatives of a high performance computing facility (servers configuration, storage area networks, I/O buses and networks, and also how to measure the performance of the installed facility).
With this goal the student will learn about the technologies involved in the design and maintenance of medium/large sized computer facilities. The student should be able to study the requirements in order to decide the size of the facilities and evaluate the performance. The student will be able to assess the impact of each piece of technology, and take decisions about the organization of a data centre.
Juan Carlos Pichel Campos
- Department
- Electronics and Computing
- Area
- Computer Architecture and Technology
- Phone
- 881816437
- juancarlos.pichel [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer