Troppens / Erkens / Mueller-Friedt Storage Networks Explained

Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS, iSCSI, InfiniBand and FCoE
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-96543-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 600 Seiten, E-Book

All you need to know about Storage Area Networks
The amount of data of an average company doubles every year.Thus, companies who own 1TB of data today will own 32TB in fiveyears. Storage networks help to tame such data quantities and tomanage this data growth efficiently. Since stored data andinformation are the biggest asset of any company, anyone who isinvolved in the planning or the operation of IT systems requires abasic knowledge of the principle and the use of storagenetworks.
Storage Networks Explained covers thefundaments, techniques and functions of storage networks such asdisk subsystems, Fibre Channel SAN, Internet SCSI (iSCSI), FibreChannel over Ethernet (FCoE), Network Attached Storage (NAS), filesystems, and storage virtualization. Furthermore the authorsdescribe the use of these techniques and how they are designed toachieve high-availability, flexibility, and scalability of data andapplications. Additional attention is given to network backup andthe management of storage networks. Written by leading experts inthe field, this book on storage area networks is updated and fullyrevised.
Key features:
* Presents the basic concepts of storage networks, such as I/Otechniques, disk subsystems, virtualization, NAS and SAN filesystems
* Covers the design of storage networks which provide flexible,highly-available, and scaleable IT systems
* Explains the use of storage networks for data sharing, dataprotection, and digital archiving
* Discusses management of storage networks using SNMP, SMI-S,and IEEE 1244
This book provides system administrators and system architects,as well as students and decision makers, with the tools needed foroptimal selection and cost-effective use of storage networks.
The Linux Journal awarded the first edition with the"Editor's Choice Award 2005" in the category"System Administration Book."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Troppens, Ulf

Erkens, Rainer

Mueller-Friedt, Wolfgang

Muller-Friedt, Wolfgang

Wolafka, Rainer

Haustein, Nils

Über Autor(innen)

The authors are employed at IBM's storage competence centerin Mainz, Germany. They work at the interface between technologyand customers. Their duties cover a wide field of responsibilities.They develop and test new software for storage networks. Theypresent the latest hardware and software products in the field ofstorage networks to customers and explain their underlyingconcepts. Last but not least they deploy and support respectivehardware and software in customer environments.
Ulf Troppens (centre) studied Computer Science at theUniversity of Karlsruhe. Since 1989 he has been primarily involvedin the development and administration of Unix systems, storagesystems, data and storage networks and distributedapplications.
Rainer Erkens (left) studied Mathematics at the Universityof Mainz. His experience in the management of computers anddistributed applications goes back to 1992. Since 2005 he is atechnical support manager in IBM's European StorageCompetence Center.
Wolfgang M¨ uller-Friedt (right) studied ComputerScience at the FH Darmstadt. He is a software architect focussingon the software development of management applications for storagenetworks which support open standards such as SMI-S and IEEE1244.
Nils Haustein (left front) studied Electrical Engineering atthe TU Chemnitz. For several years he is with IBM's advancedtechnical sales support in Europe where he is focussing on digitalarchiving.
Rainer Wolafka (right front) studied Electrical Engineeringat the FH Frankfurt and Software Engineering at the Santa ClaraUniversity. Since 1997 he is working in the field of storagenetworks and the software development of management applicationsfor storage networks.