San Jos State University

Computer Engineering Department

CMPE 284: Network & Storage Virtualization
Fall 2015

Instructors:

Dr. Medha Bhadkamkar

Office Location:

ENGR 169

Telephone:

TBD

Email:

medha.bhadkamkar@sjsu.edu

Office Hours:

Mondays 5-6pm by appointment only

Classroom:

Boccardo Business Center 220

Class timings

Mondays 6:00-8:45pm

Prerequisites:

CMPE 283 (Virtualization Technology)

Course Website:

https://sjsu.instructure.com

Course Catalog Description

Network and storage technologies, network virtualization and storage virtualization
including virtual local area networks, load balancers, firewalls, virtual private networks,
overlay networks, Internet testbeds, case studies, and team projects.
Course Goals and Student Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand network virtualization technologies and solutions

Understand block access and file access storage networking protocols and storage
virtualization technologies
Understand industry trends in storage and network virtualization
Perform hands-on experiments to analyze storage networking protocols and storage
technologies

Required Texts
Materials distributed by the instructor and latest resources on WWW
Classroom Protocol
Each student is required to participate in class activities, engage in a project team,
participate in project reviews, submit assignments and reports on time, and take exams
and tests on time.
Dropping and Adding
Students are responsible for understanding the policies and procedures about add/drop,
grade forgiveness, etc. Refer to the current semesters Catalog Policies section at
http://info.sjsu.edu/static/catalog/policies.html. Add/drop deadlines can be found on the
current academic calendar web page located at
http://www.sjsu.edu/academic_programs/calendars/academic_calendar/. The Late Drop
Policy is available at http://www.sjsu.edu/aars/policies/latedrops/policy/. Students should
be aware of the current deadlines and penalties for dropping classes.
Information about the latest changes and news is available at the Advising Hub at
http://www.sjsu.edu/advising/.
Assignments and Grading Policy
Success in this course is based on the expectation that students will spend, for each unit
of credit, a minimum of forty-five hours over the length of the course (normally 3 hours
per unit per week with 1 of the hours used for lecture) for instruction or
preparation/studying or course related activities including but not limited to internships,
labs, clinical practica. Other course structures will have equivalent workload expectations
as described in the syllabus.
Grading Policy

30% Homework assignments

30% Project reports, reviews, demos, and presentations
40% Final Exam
Homework assignments are due by 11:59pm in one week. NO late homeworks will be
accepted.
Letter Grade Assignment

A+/A/A40%
B+/B/B50%
C+/C/C5-10%
D or F
up to 2%
Any categories may be changed by +/-5 to 10% at the discretion of the instructor.

University Policies
Academic integrity

Your commitment as a student to learning is evidenced by your enrollment at San Jose

State University. The Universitys Academic Integrity policy, located at
http://www.sjsu.edu/senate/S07-2.htm, requires you to be honest in all your academic
course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the office of
Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The Student Conduct and Ethical
Development website is available at http://www.sa.sjsu.edu/judicial_affairs/index.html.
Instances of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Cheating on exams or plagiarism
(presenting the work of another as your own, or the use of another persons ideas without
giving proper credit) will result in a failing grade and sanctions by the University. For this
class, all assignments are to be completed by the individual student unless otherwise
specified. If you would like to include your assignment or any material you have
submitted, or plan to submit for another class, please note that SJSUs Academic Policy
S07-2 requires approval of instructors.
Campus Policy in Compliance with the American Disabilities Act

If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, or if you need

to make special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an
appointment with me as soon as possible, or see me during office hours. Presidential
Directive 97-03 requires that students with disabilities requesting accommodations must
register with the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/ to
establish a record of their disability.

Course Schedule
The schedule is tentative and subject to change with fair notice.
Table 1 Course Schedule

Class
1

Date
08/24

08/31

3
4
5

09/7
09/14
09/21

6
7

09/28
10/5

8
9
10
11
12

10/12
10/19
10/26
11/2
11/9

13

11/16

14

11/23

15
16

11/30
12/7

Topics covered
Introduction to storage technologies, SAN, NAS, DAS,
introduction to virtualization
Storage partitions and volumes, RAID, logical volume manager,
and snapshots, discussion of class project
No class- Labor Day
Policies, standards, iSCSI, virtual storage network
Network file systems, networked block devices, logical volume
management
Networking technology: TCP/IP, hands-on with network tools
Network virtualization techniques, load balancing, firewalls,
VPNs
SDN, control plane, data plane, OpenFlow
Implementing virtual networks, Mininet
Virtualization hypervisors- ESX, hyperV, Xen, use case: Qubes
Software defined storage, emerging trends
Hyper-converged architectures, study enterprise use case:
Nutanix
Data virtualization applications, study enterprise use case:
Actifio
Software containers, study enterprise use case: Docker,
Kubernetes
Cloud computing and virtualization for big data analytics
Final project presentations