Storage Area Networks for Dummies

View larger picture

List price: $29.99 Amazon price: $0.20 You save: $29.79 (99%) Prices subject to change. Used price: $0.20 Buy Now at Amazon

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:)

---

- Buy the 2nd Edition if you see Dummies man on the cover
The 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 book
I 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.

---

- Incredibly difficult subject to conquer, but Dummies makes it entertaining
Good overview of subject, would have like the option to go more into the details of switches. Should be updated too. Easy read, entertaining writers. A true must read for anyone even related to the SANS industry.

---

- A bit outdated now..
Hardly a mention of iSCSI and mostly deals with 1 & 2MBit Fiber Channel, which displays some of it's age. Though, it does a reasonable job of explaining LUN's, naming conventions and the security models in reasonably simplistic terminology. I personally wanted to know more specifically about iSCSI and other newer technologies.

---

- This book delivers -- Big Time!
I'm a DBA and needed to understand a few technologies about SANs and I had no where to look, until I read the reviews about this book on Amazon and decided to trust most of the reviewers and boy were they right. Excellent, excellent material delivered in a way that non-storage Admins would understand. I wish it wasn't put under the 'Dummies' series though.

---

---

More Products