Storage Area Networks For Dummies

by Christopher Poelker, Alex Nikitin

If you’ve been charged with setting up storage area networks for your company, learning how SANs work and managing data storage problems might seem challenging. Storage Area Networks For Dummies, 2nd Edition comes to the rescue with just what you need to know. Whether you already a bit SAN savvy or you’re a complete novice, here’s the scoop on how SANs save money, how to implement new technologies like data de-duplication, iScsi, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, how to develop SANs that will aid your company’s disaster recovery plan, and much more. For example, you

Understand what SANs are, whether you need one, and what you need to build one Learn to use loops, switches, and fabric, and design your SAN for peak performance Create a disaster recovery plan with the appropriate guidelines, remote site, and data copy techniques Discover how to connect or extend SANs and how compression can reduce costs Compare tape and disk backups and network vs. SAN backup to choose the solution you need Find out how data de-duplication makes sense for backup, replication, and retention Follow great troubleshooting tips to help you find and fix a problem Benefit from a glossary of all those pesky acronyms From the basics for beginners to advanced features like snapshot copies, storage virtualization, and heading off problems before they happen, here’s what you need to do the job with confidence!

Genres: Programming

646 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 17, 2003

Reviews

[lamarcus brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so VERY well written for a technical book. It covers all the topics and covers them well, making it easy to understand the topics and how they fit into the overall picture. I showed this book to an HP SAN instructor who perused it and said "Yes, this has everything you need."

[Navneet Agarwal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good enough to create an interest and understanding towards SAN especially when you never knew anything about it at all.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my Linux students contributed to this book! Had him sign it! Very good book on the basics of SANs.

[Andy Newby · Rating 3 out of 5]

SANing is just PACKED with excitement!!

[Ricardo Sueiras · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good introduction in Storage Area Networks.