Summary:

Plan and design robust, flexible, and scalable storage systems to meet the demands of your enterprise and Web site. Building Storage Networks covers fundamental topics such as network I/0, RAID, and network backup and provides valuable insight into the latest storage technologies, including Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS). Detailed technical information and analyses guide you through enterprise needs assessment, solution identification, and technology implementation. Special Storage Networks blueprints provide sample schematics and architectures to visually reinforce important concepts.

• Understand the complete I/0 path from application to storage device
• Design and construct SANs in an enterprise
• Set up high availability disk subsystems
• Configure network backup and SAN backup technologies, including advanced media managers and serverless backup
• Use Fibre Channel technologies, architectures, and products
• Implement Network Attached Storage file systems, protocols, and internal operations
• Determine the role of Ethernet in storage networks
• Build scalable storage networks to support 24 x 7 Web sites
• Enable Internet storage services including Web-based backup, virtual storage, Microsoft Office 2000 Web folders and WebDAV