Storage Area Networks for Dummies
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Author: Christopher Poelker
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780764524806
Label: For Dummies
Dimension: 1.02 x 9.06 x 7.4 inches
ISBN: 0764524801
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 408
Publication date: February 17, 2003
Studio: For Dummies
* A basic guide to setting up and using this complex technology, making the lucrative world of computer storage accessible even to a novice in the storage field
* Offers networking professionals practical, hands-on instructions for implementing and maintaining a Storage Area Network, allowing them to get up and running quickly
* As a corporate asset, the value of secure, available storage continues to escalate, while professionals trained to manage SANs are in critically short supply
* Average salaries for storage networking professionals range from $69K to $85K, generating tremendous interest in this field
* Author, a twenty-year storage industry veteran, has designed and implemented storage area networks for most of the Fortune 100 companies
Explore SAN design, capabilities, management, and troubleshooting
Begin building SANs, backing up data, and boosting your earning power
In many companies today, SAN proficiency equals greater prosperity. If that equation gets your attention, back up and grab this book. You'll find out how to build a storage area network, what it does, who needs one, how to tie SANs together, and a lot more. Before long, yours could be the resume of a SAN sage.
The Dummies Way
- Explanations in plain English
- "Get in, get out" information
- Icons and other navigational aids
- Tear-out cheat sheet
- Top ten lists
- A dash of humor and fun
Ratings & Comments(Average:
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- Too outdated to be much use.Considering the second edition was released in January 2009, it is appalling how little iSCSI is mentioned. According to the index iSCSI is referenced on fewer than 15 of the book's 437 pages. Two SAN vendors have earned a living doing only iSCSI for over eight years and nearly all the rest offer both iSCSI and FC, so to treat this important SAN technology so lightly in 2008 when this book was going into its second edition was a fatal error to my mind. The author needs to rewrite this book quickly to address not only iSCSI, but also storage virtualization (11 pages), tiering of storage (0 pages), serial attached SCSI (SAS) (0 pages), solid-state drives (0 pages), SATA (2 pages), and thin provisioning (0 pages), to name a few. If you know you need Fiber Channel this book has some utility, but as an overiew of the state of the SAN world at press time or today, it is sadly lacking.
- Fantastic primer for people new to storageWhile working at a large SF Bay Area IT company as a marketing manager, I was transferred from the microprocessor division to the storage department. "Storage Area Networks for Dummies" was a wonderful resource for getting up to speed with the technologies and terminology of my new world. Over the last 5 years I have recommened it time and time again to marketing managers new to storage.
If you can grasp the concepts in the first 2 chapters, you will learn enough to follow the industry. And the rest of the book is a wonderful reference for non-techies.
- Excellent introduction to SAN technologydo not be put off by the "Dummies" thing...this is an excellent and comprehensive introduction to SAN technology.
- Buy the 2nd Edition if you see Dummies man on the coverThe second edition of Storage Area Networks For Dummies by the same authors is available. That edition has a computer photo on the cover rather than Dummies man.
The ISBN for the second edition is 0470385138. You can search on that ISBN to find the most up-to-date information on SANs, including iSCSI, data de-duplication, and storage virtualization solutions.
- Nice summary bookI was assigned the task by my company to install a SAN without ever having seen one. This book was very valuable in preparing me to get the job done. It's well organized with none of the usual excesses of the usual 800 page computer book.
It makes for an excellent introductory book.
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