Main Preamble:

King College, with a population of 3000 students, 12,000 alumni, 300 staff and non-staff members have 3 campuses in 3 different regions in Nigeria. The main campus located in Lagos houses the college of Arts and Engineering while the college of Informatics is located in Abuja. The College of Social Sciences is located in Ibadan and the College of interdisciplinary studies has been moved to Akure. As a storage consultant, you have been hired by your Alma Mata to build a storage and backup system for the College. With this preamble, answer the following questions to the best of your ability;

1. For the main campus location, you have the option of using Traditional Storage Provisioning and Intelligent Storage Systems; which of the following would you recommend and why?

2. Would you suggest the adoption of a full Mesh Topology for Fibre channel SAN topology for King College Storage architecture?

3. How could King college benefit from implementing Virtual SAN (VSAN) for Block virtualization?

4. The majority of FCIP implementations today use switch-specific features such as IVR (Inter VSAN Routing) or FCRS (Fibre Channel Routing Services) to create a tunnel. To connect between King College satellite campuses which FCIP implementations would you recommend and why.

5. Your proposed network for the college of informatics contains three servers named Server A, Server B, and Server C. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2. You need to ensure that Server1 can provide iSCSI storage for Server2 and Server3. How do you ensure that the devices are using the ISCSI protocol?