CPITULO 1

1. What is structured and unstructured data? Research the challenges of storing

and managing unstructured data.
Los datos estructurados son los que se encuentran en una base de datos,
estan contenidos en tablas y columnas de manera interrelacionda. A diferencia de
los no estructurados que se encuentran de manera dispersa, sin un orden, ni
relacin aparente unos con otros.
2. Discuss the benefits of information-centric storage architecture over servercentric storage architecture.
Una arquitectura centrada en el storage de almacenamiento es ms flexible
y escalable que una clasica.
3. What are the attributes of big data? Research and prepare a presentation on big
data analytics.
Trabaja con la estructurada y no, de varias fuentes. Se refiere a un
conjunto de datos cuyos tamaos llegan a sobrepasar la vialidad de herramientas
de software comunes para capturar,almacenar, administrar y procesar con limites
de tiempo aceptables.Trabaja con datos para la toma de desiciones.
4. Research how businesses use their information assets to derive competitive
advantage and new business opportunities.
Usan la informacin para hacer predicciones con relacion al movimiento del
marquetin
5. Research and prepare a presentation on personal data management.
CPITULO 2
1. What are the advantages of a virtualized data center over a classic data
center?
La ventaja es que ahorra recursos dado que utiliza los recursos de un host al
mximo. Como ahorra recursos tambin ahorra dinero de aire acondicionado,
ventilacin etc.
2. An application specifies a requirement of 200 GB to host a database and
other files. It also specifies that the storage environment should support
5,000 IOPS during its peak workloads. The disks available for configuration
provide 66 GB of usable capacity, and the manufacturer specifies that they
can support a maximum of 140 IOPS. The application is response timesensitive, and disk utilization beyond 60 percent does not meet the
response time requirements. Compute and explain the theoretical basis for
the minimum number of disks that should be configured to meet the
requirements of the application.

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3. Which components constitute the disk service time? Which component

contributes the largest percentage of the disk service time in a random I/O
operation?
Seek time (T)
Latencia rotacional
Tiempo interno de transferencia
4. The average I/O size of an application is 64 KB. The following specifications
are available from the disk manufacturer: average seek time = 5 ms, 7,200
RPM, and transfer rate = 40 MB/s. Determine the maximum IOPS that could
be performed with this disk for the application. Using this case as an
example, explain the relationship between disk utilization and IOPS.
T= 5m
Ar= 7200/60= 120 rps
IOPs= 1000/(t+Ar)= 8 ms

5. Refer to Question 4. Based on the calculated disk service time, plot a graph
showing the response time versus utilization, considering the utilization of
the I/O controller at 20 percent, 40 percent, 60 percent, 80 percent, and 100
percent. Describe the conclusion that could be derived from the graph.
20% =8*(1-0.2)= 6.4
40%=8*(1-0.4)= 4.8
60%=8*(1-0.6)=3.2
80%=8*(1-0.8)=
1.6
100%=8*(1-1)= 0
6. Research other elements of a data center besides the core elements
discussed in this chapter, including environmental control parameters such
as HVAC (heat, ventilation, and air-condition), power supplies, and security.
Storage
Conectividad
Aplicacin
DBMS
CPITULO 3
1. Why is RAID 1 not a substitute for a backup?
Un RAID 1 prove redundancia contra fallos, pero no es lo mismo que tener una
copia de seguridad. Podra haber fallos en ambos lados del espejo y se perdera
toda la informacin. Por lo que siempre es bueno tener un respaldo.

2. Research RAID 6 and its second parity computation.

Usa el cdigo Reed Solomon
3. Explain the process of data recovery in case of a drive failure in RAID 5.
4. What are the benefits of using RAID 3 in a backup application?
5. Discuss the impact of random and sequential I/Os in different RAID
configurations.
6. An application has 1,000 heavy users at a peak of 2 IOPS each and 2,000
typical users at a peak of 1 IOPS each. It is estimated that the application
also experiences an overhead of 20 percent for other workloads. The
read/write ratio for the application is 2:1. Calculate RAID corrected IOPS for
RAID 1/0, RAID 5, and RAID 6.
7. For Question 6, compute the number of drives required to support the
application in different RAID environments if 10 K RPM drives with a rating
of 130 IOPS per drive were used.
8. 8. What is the stripe size of a five-disk RAID 5 set with a strip size of 32
KB? Compare it with the stripe size of a five-disk RAID 0 array with the
same strip size.

CPITULO 4
1. Research Cache Coherency mechanisms, and explain how they address
the environment with multiple shared caches.
2. Which type of application benefits the most by bypassing write cache?
Justify your answer.
3. Research various cache parameters: cache page size, read versus write
cache allocation, cache prefetch size, and write aside size.
4. An Oracle database uses a block size of 4 KB for its I/O operation. The
application that uses this database primarily performs a sequential read
operation. Suggest and explain the appropriate values for the following
cache parameters: cache page size, cache allocation (read versus write),
prefetch type, and write aside size.
5. Research and prepare a presentation on EMC VMAX architecture.

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