Poelker / Nikitin Storage Area Networks For Dummies

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-47130-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, E-Book

If you've been charged with setting up storage area networksfor your company, learning how SANs work and managing data storageproblems might seem challenging. Storage Area Networks ForDummies, 2nd Edition comes to the rescue with justwhat you need to know.
Whether you already a bit SAN savvy or you're a completenovice, here's the scoop on how SANs save money, how toimplement new technologies like data de-duplication, iScsi, andFibre Channel over Ethernet, how to develop SANs that will aid yourcompany's disaster recovery plan, and much more. For example,you can:
* Understand what SANs are, whether you need one, and what youneed to build one
* Learn to use loops, switches, and fabric, and design your SANfor peak performance
* Create a disaster recovery plan with the appropriateguidelines, remote site, and data copy techniques
* Discover how to connect or extend SANs and how compression canreduce costs
* Compare tape and disk backups and network vs. SAN backup tochoose 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 aproblem
* Benefit from a glossary of all those pesky acronyms
From the basics for beginners to advanced features like snapshotcopies, storage virtualization, and heading off problems beforethey happen, here's what you need to do the job withconfidence!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poelker, Christopher

Nikitin, Alex

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Part I: SAN 101.
Chapter 1: The Storage Area Network.
Chapter 2: SAN Building Blocks.
Chapter 3: What Makes a SAN Go.
Chapter 4: What Makes a SAN Stop.
Part II: Designing and Building a SAN.
Chapter 5: Designing the SAN.
Chapter 6: SANs and Disaster Recovery.
Chapter 7: Putting It All Together.
Part III: Using Advanced SAN Features.
Chapter 8: Networking SANs.
Chapter 9: SAN-Based Backup.
Chapter 10: Mirror, Mirror: Point-in-Time Copies.
Part IV: SAN Management and Troubleshooting.
Chapter 11: Approaches to SAN Management.
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting SANs.
Part V: Understanding the Cool Stuff.
Chapter 13: Using Data De-Duplication to Lighten the Load.
Chapter 14: Continuous Data Protection.
Chapter 15: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know aboutVirtualization.
Part VI: The Par t of Tens.
Chapter 16: Ten Reasons to Use a SAN.
Chapter 17: Ten Reasons NOT to Use a SAN.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Poelker is Vice President of EnterpriseSolutions for FalconStor Software, Inc. He spends most of his timewith Fortune 1000 companies defining strategy for virtualizationand business continuity solutions. Chris is also in great demand asa conference speaker.
Alex Nikitin has been a storage architect and consultantfor more than ten years.