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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Addison Wesley US |
| More info: | www.awprofessional.c... | Author(s): | Tom Clark |
| Pages: | 572 | Year of publication: | 2003 |
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Storage Area Networks (SANs) are now recognized as
the preferred solution for fulfilling institutions' and enterprises'
critical data-storage needs. Whether powered by Fibre Channel
or TCP/IP and Gigabit Ethernet technology, SANs far
exceed the capabilities of traditional storage access methods.
SANs are quickly becoming the solution of choice
for organizations that require high-volume data-handling capacity.
Written for
network developers, IT consultants, administrators, and managers, this
updated & expanded edition goes far beyond a
straight description of technical specifications and standards. The
text offers practical guidelines for using diverse SAN
technologies to solve existing networking problems in large-scale
corporate networks. With this book you will learn
how the technologies work and how to organize
their components into an effective, scalable design. In
doing so, you will discover today's best methods
for managing storage area networks, including new troubleshooting
techniques.
Key topic coverage includes: Using the SNIA Shared
Storage Model; Fibre Channel layers & protocols; Fabrics
& fabric switches; Host bus adapters; Fibre Channel
RAID & Fibre Channel JBODs; iSCSI and IP
storage protocols & products; SAN management & problem
isolation techniques; Building extended SANs for data center
and remote storage access.