Schulz Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials

Cloud, Converged, and Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-3816-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 672 Seiten

Server and Storage I/O Fundamentals is the definitive source providing comprehensive coverage addressing IT data storage networking infrastructure topics involving public and private cloud, virtualization and traditional IT environments. This book looks at strategies for designing, implementing and managing hardware, software and services technologies along with best practices for enabling efficient, optimized, flexible, scalable and resilient data storage networking infrastructures from a vendor neutral perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schulz, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung
• 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 Sr. Analyst of independent IT advisory and consultancy firm Server and StorageIO www.storageio.com). He has worked in IT at an electrical utility, financial services and transportation firms in roles ranging from business applications development to systems management and architecture planning. Mr. Schulz is author of the Intel Recommended Reading List books "Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking" and "The Green and Virtual Data Center" via CRC Press and "Resilient Storage Networks" (Elsevier) and a five time VMware vExpert, as well as having been an advisor to various organizaitons including CompTIA Storage+.