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Resilient storage networking : designing flexible scalable data infrastructures /

A resilient storage network is an environment where data is always available for the needs of the business. This book explains the components, as well as how to design and implement a resilient storage network for workgroup, departmental, and enterprise environments. Storage networks are an enabling...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schulz, Greg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Digital Press, �2004.
Colección:Digital Press storage technology series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Resilient Storage Networking
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Why Build Resilient Networks?
  • Chapter 1. Importance of Information
  • 1.1 Overview
  • 1.2 Importance and reliability of information
  • 1.3 Types of information and data
  • 1.4 Information, data, and storage life-cycle management (xLM)
  • 1.5 Threats and requirements for data protection
  • 1.6 Maintaining information accessibility
  • 1.7 Chapter summary
  • Chapter 2. Data Storage Fundamentals
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 How data is accessed and organized
  • 2.3 Chapter summary
  • Part II: Networking with Your Storage
  • Chapter 3. Networking with Your Storage
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Networks and I/O channels
  • 3.3 Relationships between enterprise communications and the data center
  • 3.4 Enterprise messaging network usage
  • 3.5 Deterministic behavior
  • 3.6 I/O busses and paths
  • 3.7 Data access infrastructures
  • 3.8 Accessing storage networks
  • 3.9 Network storage interfaces
  • 3.10 Networks for storage
  • 3.11 Storage and data sharing
  • 3.12 Storage networking access models
  • 3.13 Chapter summary
  • Chapter 4. Storage and I/O Networks
  • 4.1 Overview
  • 4.2 Storage networking interfaces
  • 4.3 Performance and bandwidth
  • 4.4 Storage and I/O interface
  • 4.5 Upper-level protocols for storage networking
  • 4.6 Storage and networking interfaces
  • 4.7 Chapter summary
  • Chapter 5. Fiber-Optic Essentials
  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 Fiber-optic essentials
  • 5.3 Fiber-optic basics
  • 5.4 Fiber-optic cabling types
  • 5.5 A word about wavelengths
  • 5.6 Fiber-optic connectors and transceivers
  • 5.7 Fiber-optic distance and performance topics
  • 5.8 Link loss and power budgets (db loss)
  • 5.9 Protocol droop
  • 5.10 Chapter summary
  • Chapter 6. Metropolitan and Wide Area Storage Networks
  • 6.1 Overview
  • 6.2 Metropolitan and wide area networking
  • 6.3 Storage over IP for distance
  • 6.4 Wave division multiplexing
  • 6.5 Time division multiplexing
  • 6.6 When to utilize multiplexing
  • 6.7 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
  • 6.8 SONET/SDH
  • 6.9 Public switched telephone network
  • 6.10 Inverse multiplexing
  • 6.11 Free space optics and wireless communication
  • 6.12 Chapter summary
  • Chapter 7. Storage Networking Devices
  • 7.1 Overview
  • 7.2 Storage networking devices
  • 7.3 Networking components
  • 7.4 Chapter summary
  • Part III: Resilient Storage Networks
  • Chapte 8. Storage Network Design
  • 8.1 Overview
  • 8.2 Getting started
  • 8.3 Storage networking design influences
  • 8.4 Which type of storage network is right for you?
  • 8.5 Know your objectives and requirements
  • 8.6 Storage network design
  • 8.7 The design process
  • 8.8 Chapter summary
  • Chapte 9. Storage Networking Topologies
  • 9.1 Overview
  • 9.2 Storage networking topologies
  • 9&#