Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials

Cloud, Converged, and Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-3815-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 260 mm x 185 mm, Gewicht: 1454 g

Software-Defined Data Infrastructures Essentials provides fundamental coverage of physical, cloud, converged, and virtual server storage I/O networking technologies, trends, tools, techniques, and tradecraft skills. From webscale, software-defined, containers, database, key-value store, cloud, and enterprise to small or medium-size business, the book is filled with techniques, and tips to help develop or refine your server storage I/O hardware, software, and services skills. Whether you are new to data infrastructures or a seasoned pro, you will find this comprehensive reference indispensable for gaining as well as expanding experience with technologies, tools, techniques, and trends.

We had a front row seat watching Greg present live in our education workshop seminar sessions for ITC professionals in the Netherlands material that is in this book. We recommend this amazing book to expand your converged and data infrastructure knowledge from beginners to industry veterans. —Gert and Frank Brouwer, Brouwer Storage Consultancy

Software-Defined Data Infrastructures Essentials provides the foundational building blocks to improve your craft in serval areas including applications, clouds, legacy, and more. IT professionals, as well as sales professionals and support personnel, stand to gain a great deal by reading this book.—Mark McSherry, Oracle Regional Sales Manager

Looking to expand your data infrastructure IQ? From CIOS to operations, sales to engineering, this book is a comprehensive reference, a must read for IT infrastructure professionals, beginners to seasoned experts.—Tom Becchetti, Advisory Systems Engineer

Greg Schulz has provided a complete ‘toolkit’ for storage management along with the background and framework for the storage or data infrastructure professional or those aspiring to become one.—Greg Brunton, Experienced Storage and Data Management Professional

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schulz, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Server and Storage I/O Fundamentals. Getting started. The need for computer data storage. Customer and industry data storage trends. Server and Storage I/O fundamentals. Different types of data storage. How Data Storage is Used. Where Data Storage Is Located. Data Storage Attributes and Characteristics. PACE. Performance. Availability. Capacity Space. Energy and Economics. Storage and I/O hierarchy. Storage Hardware and Software. Server and Storage I/O Talk (terminology). Common questions and tips. Summary. Data Storage and I/O networking fundamentals. Getting started. Disk storage and I/O fundamentals. From bits to bytes and storage counting. Storage Sharing vs. Data Sharing. Storage Hardware Devices. Storage mediums and media. Structured and unstructured storage. Anatomy of an IOhow storage is accessed. Initiators and targets. Block. SCSI and other command set. DAS (Direct Attached Storage). SAN (Storage Area Network). File access. File systems. Local and Distributed filesystems. NAS (Networked Attached). Object, API and meta data matters. Cloud storage access. Virtualization and Software Defined Storage. Storage Software and Management Tools. Server and Storage I/O architectures. Common Questions and tips. Summary. Section 2Server Storage I/O (Going Deep). Storage Media and Mediums. Getting Started. Memory and Data Storage Hierarchy. Aligning storage technology and mediums to application needs. Data Storage Media and Medium Basics. Reliability and Metrics. Software, Firmware and Drivers. Hardware Form factors. DRAM memory. Flash and Solid State Device (SSD). Different types of SSDs. SSD considerations. Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Hybrid HDD (HHDD) and Solid State Hybrid Disk (SSHD). Magnetic Tape. Optical and others. 0Cloud, Virtual, Software Defined and Emerging. 1What is the best data storage medium. 2 - Common Questions and tips. Summary. Networking with your servers and storage. Getting started. Server Storage I/O Networking. From interfaces to protocol access methods and personalities. Interfaces (big picture). Protocols and command sets. Access methods and personalities. Server Storage I/O (to the core). Local Server and Storage I/O Interfaces. PCIe and GPU. NVM Express (NVMe). Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Serial ATA (SATA). eSATA. mSATA. SATA Express. Thunderbolt. Universal Serial Bus (USB). Networked Storage (LAN, SAN and NAS). SAS SAN. Ethernet (GbE, 10GbE, 40GbE, 100GbE and beyond). Fibre Channel (FC). InfiniBand. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Data Center Bridging (DCB). ATA over Ethernet (e.g. AoE). SCSI_FCP (FCP e.g. Fibre Channel). iSCSI (e.g. SCSI on TCP/IP). ISERiSCSI extensions for RDMA. 0 - RDMA. 1 - SCSI Remote Protocol (SRP e.g. SCSI on InfiniBand). Network Attached Storage (NAS). AFPApple Filing Protocol. CIFS, SAMBA, SMB. FUSE. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). NFS and pNFS. Object, Programmatic Binding and API access. CDMI (SNIA). DICOM. FTP/SFTP. http/https. IL7. OpenStack Swift. PXE. Rest. SOAP and ODBC. 0upnp. 1Programmatic bindings. 2Proprietary and API. Seagate Kinetec. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon Glacier. Various others. Wireless. 4G. Bluetooth. Microwave. Near Field Communications (NFC). Satellite. WiFi. WiMax. MAN, WAN and Cloud. CWDM, WDM, DWDM. Metro Ethernet and fiber services. SONET/SDH, T1, MPLS. Software Defined and Virtualization. IO Virtualization. Network Function Virtualization (NFV). 0 - Cabling, tools and management. Cabling. Tools. Management. Configuration and topologies 1Common Questions and Tips Summary Storage and Data Services Getting Started Storage Device

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Schulz is Founder and Senior Analyst of the independent IT advisory and consultancy firm Server StorageIO (www.storageio.com). He has worked in IT at an electrical utility and at financial services and transportation firms in roles ranging from business applications development to systems management and architecture planning.

Greg is the author of the Intel Recommended Reading List books Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011) and The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009) as well as Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004), among other works. He is a multiyear VMware vSAN and vExpert as well as a Microsoft MVP and has been an advisor to various organizations including CompTIA Storage+ among others. In addition to holding frequent webinars, on-line, and live in-person speaking events and publishing articles and other content, Greg is regularly quoted and interviewed as one of the most sought-after independent IT advisors providing perspectives, commentary, and opinion on industry activity.

Greg has a B.A. in computer science and a M.Sc. in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas. You can find him on Twitter @StorageIO; his blog is at www.storageioblog.com, and his main website is www.storageio.com.