Storage Networks

by Daniel J. Worden

Overview

* The emphasis of this book will be on detailed practicality. Most of the SAN books provide a theoretical treatment of the technology from a top-down perspective. This book will be written from the perspective of "from the ground up".

* Relates specific technology offerings to particular application areas. Email stores, Image stores, Video Production and RDBMS disk are used as specific case studies to show how the hardware, firmware, and interconnects are set up and used.

* SAN technology is ready to move out of the glass house and large scale storage is becoming applicable to even dedicated purposes. This represents an increase in the potential audience for a book on SANs and, of course, remains highly useful for the administrators and centralized technical staff responsible for backups, recoverability, and availability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590592984
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/20/2004
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Dan J. Worden is the author of Big Blue Java, Sybase Developer's Guide, Platinum Edge SQL Backup and Recovery, and other books.

Table of Contents

• A Walk Around the Technology
• Hard Disk Technology
• Networks
• SCSI: The Specification, Architecture, and Command Set
• RAID Levels and Logical Volumes
• File Systems and Network Prools
• SAN Backup and Recovery
• Storage Security
• Storage Networks Software and Content
• Do-It-Yourself Network Storage Components
• Vendor Offerings
• Making the Business Case for Storage Networks
• Future Directions for Storage Networks