Storage Network Complete Manual

Author: Spalding
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book aims to serve as a universal reference for IT professionals, focusing on the practical issues encountered when learning, understanding, and applying a new technology from an IT perspective. Like other reference books, it can be used in multiple ways. First, it can serve as a fundamental reference for understanding various concepts in storage networks. Second, it can be used as a tool for designing and positioning the application of technology. Finally, it can also be used as a supplementary reference to help readers complete installation and implementation work and transition to maintenance and management phases. On the other hand, in various formal and informal teaching activities, this book or selected chapters can also serve as teaching materials for classroom learning. How to use this book depends on the reader's existing computer knowledge level, especially their knowledge of storage systems. This book is prepared for IT professionals who need to understand storage networks and related issues from a data center perspective. The examples in this book are derived from practice, and the purpose of exploring these examples is to better reveal the key issues in the planning, implementation, and management of data center storage networks. It can be believed that enterprise data storage will continue to develop as an important infrastructure, and storage networks will become the cornerstone of this transformation, bringing us a brand-new future for data centers. This book is a comprehensive guide to storage networks, divided into seven parts and 25 chapters. It covers various storage network technologies, including SAN, NAS, fiber channel, file systems, virtualization, database storage, and more. By reading this book, readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the current applications of storage networks in data centers and gain a panoramic view of today's storage network revolution. This book will also help readers recognize the core concepts in storage networks, including architecture, devices, connectivity options, and data organization methods, and use these concepts to effectively design and implement complex storage networks. It will also guide readers in skillfully applying the two main storage network models, NAS (Network-Attached Storage, network-attached storage) and SAN (Storage Area Network, storage area network), and integrating them using IP, RAID storage systems, and virtualization elements. This book is suitable for professionals interested in storage networks. For network engineers, application system designers, and IT operations managers, this book is an extremely valuable reference that helps them better understand, plan, and maintain storage networks.