Winter 2009 SYA810 Weekly Schedule
Week 1 (January 12) - Release Planning & Roadmap
- Course overview and plan
- Project Release schedule
- 7 releases, every 2 weeks
- Developing a Release Roadmap
- Project Release schedule
Week 2 (January 19) - Advanced storage I: RAID and LVM-on-RAID
(Classes cancelled due to instructor illness)
ToDo:
- Create a script to test block device performance. This script will later be used to test the performance of various RAID configurations. It can read or write, access either the block device or individual files, and deal with many small reads/writes or a smaller number of large read/writes. It may be written in any language.
- Post the scripts here: Winter 2009 SYA810 Block Device Benchmark Scripts by Monday, Jan 26.
Week 3 (January 26) - Release 0.4
ToDo:
- Complete the SYA810 RAID Benchmarking Lab.
- Release 0.4 of your project, by Friday Jan 30, 11:59 pm.
Week 4 (February 2) - Backup and Restore I
Week 5 (February 9) - Release 0.5
ToDo:
- Complete your 0.5 release.
- Schedule a Project Demo
Remember:
- Quiz on Tuesday during the SYA810 Lab Period (3:20-5:00 pm)
Week 6 (February 16) - Backup and Restore II
Week 7 (February 23) - Release 0.6
Study Week (March 2)
Week 8 (March 9) - Release 0.7
Week 9 (March 16) - Advanced storage II SANs and iSCSI
Week 10 (March 23) - Release 0.8
Week 11 (March 30) - Performance Turning
Week 12 (April 6) - Release 0.9
Week 13 (April 13) - Wrap-up
ToDo:
- Submit the SYA810 iSCSI Lab by Friday.
- Prepare to practice your presentation on Thursday.