Storage Area Networks for Dummies

by Alex Nikitin and Christopher Poelker

Book Overview

If you've been charged with setting up storage area networks for your company, learning how SANs work and managing data storage problems might seem challenging. Storage Area Networks For Dummies, 2nd Edition comes to the rescue with just what you need to know.

Whether you already a bit SAN savvy or you're a complete novice, here's the scoop on how SANs save money, how to implement new technologies like data de-duplication, iScsi, and Fibre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470385138
• ISBN13: 9780470385135
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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.

I was very happy and so was my HP SAN teacher

I read this book just before taking an HP SAN training class and before this book I knew Zero about SAN; after I not only understood the class, I understood it well. I told my teacher I was going to try to take the snia exam and he looked through the book and said it was written well and covered most if not all of the important material.

Great buy

This book gives a complete view on SANs in a very clear language, with lots of techical information and practical examples. It is the best book I know to obtain a more than enough knowledge to decide what to buy and how to design and implement. Simply great.

Excellent Primer

This book is an excellent introduction into SAN background, Design, Technologies. Perfect for Admin, Managers. Easy enough to understand, but detailed enough to be of value.

Excellant over view of NAS servers.

This is the first book that I have seen that gives a clear and concise over view of SAN. I have looked at several books, and while they may be very good and detailed, they usually assume that the reader has has previous experiece with SAN servers. In essence they describe their speciality and not how the system works as a whole. You could say that they describe a tree or particular plant and not the ecology of the whole forest. This book begins at a high level explaining how the system works as a whole and then works down to the detail level with examples of installing switches and servers, with command line entry examples. If you are getting started in system adminiatration and storage servers, I highly recommend this book as one of your first reads. This books covers using both Windows and UNIX.