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Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition)
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Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6
EAN: 9780321136503
ISBN: 0321136500
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 2003-03-31
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Editorial Reviews:
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This is a fully updated revision of Designing Storage Area Networks. It collapses or removes dated material from the original edition and adds new content, particularly in the area of Fibre Channel fabrics, IP SANs and storage virtualization. Storage area networks are now recognized as the preferred solution for fulfilling a wide range of critical data storage needs for institutions and enterprises. The success of SANs in establishing real end-user value is affirmed by the adoption of the technology by all major solution providers as their flagship server and storage offerings. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Dell and others now provide certified SAN configurations for performance, high availability and backup of storage data, while storage vendors such as EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, XIOtech and others offer SAN interfaces on their premier products. While the current market penetration of SAN-based solutions is only 20% of the total storage market, SANs are expected to capture the majority of the market within a few years.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Great Book
Comment: This book is a very good overview of the field. The information contained therein is a little dated, but most of it still applies to today. It is well written and concise.
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Summary: Good, Practical Overview
Comment: A good overview of SAN technology. My first exposure to SANs and Fiber Channel switches was the Web interfaces for the devices we have. I bought this book and it made much sense of what I saw in the Web pages. While not perfect (and not vendor specific), it covers the topic concisely and throroughly.
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Summary: A definite good technical read
Comment: Good details description very easy to read, facts and information from the very basic to very technical. A definite good technical read.
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Summary: Understand technology behind without reading T11 standards
Comment: This book is quite dry, no question about that, but not as dry as the standards published by organizations in charge with Fibre Channel standards. Yet, as a SAN designer or SAN administrator you can find in it all the information you need to understand the inner details of a Loop Insertion Primitive or how an Alternate buffer-to-buffer credit model works. Compared with other books on the subject is remarcably error free and I was nicely impressed by Mr. Clark's considerations upon what should be the customer' role in steering vendors in developing products that are more open and interoperate better.
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Summary: Very detailed description of SAN technology
Comment: This was a very good overview of the many varied components and technologies that make up a storage area network. It goes into a lot of detail about things like standards, protocols, speeds, etc. If you want to understand the differences between iSCSI and FCIP, for example, this is the book for you. The word "Reference" in the subtitle is accurate. It's not a guide on how to administer a SAN day-to-day in the real-world; it's about the concepts and details of what a SAN really is. The writing style is a little dry, but I didn't expect it to be a page-turner. My only disappointment was when I realized that over 1/4 of the book is devoted to appendices, glossary and index instead of written content.
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