Storage Networks: The Complete Reference - Softcover

Robert Spalding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072224762 ISBN 13: 9780072224764

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003

Synopsis

Keep tabs on the vast array of storage network technologies, including SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, file systems, virtualization, database storage, and snapshots. Plus, discover emerging technology standards such as iSCSI, InfiniBand, and storage provisioning. A profoundly useful resource for troubleshooting and coping with legacy issues such as interoperability and storage resource management.

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About the Author

Marc Farley started working with network storage technology in 1991 at Palindrome Corporation as a systems engineer and has been in the network storage field ever since working in business development, product management, and strategic marketing at Hitachi, Crossroads Systems, and ConvergeNet. He is currently President of Building Storage, Inc., a company providing consulting services to storage vendors, institutional investors and end users. He is the author of Building Storage Networks, First and Second Editions.

From the Back Cover

The Definitive Resource on Storage Networks

Covers storage networking technologies including SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, file systems, virtualization, database storage, and snapshots

This comprehensive guide helps you stay on top of storage networking innovations while understanding the realities of storage networks in the data center. Use the essential concepts of storage networks including architecture, devices, connectivity options, and data organization methods to design and apply comprehensive and successful storage solutions. Learn to work with the two major models--NAS (Network Attached Storage) and SAN (Storage Area Networking)--and their integration with IP, RAID storage architectures, and virtualization basics. Whether you're a network engineer, application designer, or IT executive, discover this useful reference to understand, plan, and maintain a storage network.

• Plan, install, and manage a successful storage network
• Analyze network file systems, volume managers, and database storage challenges used in storage networks
• Understand the realities of data protection and backup/recovery techniques using storage networks
• Compare reliability and performance by reviewing the potential and limitations of storage component technologies
• Integrate storage networking solutions with structured and unstructured data using example data center models
• Consider the best options for using disk, tape, and optical media with storage networks
• Overcome the challenges and limitations of storage networks using relational database systems and existing LAN/WAN networks
• Learn I/O workload planning and estimate your storage networking capacities and requirements

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072224762
• ISBN 13: 9780072224764
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 928