Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers (VERITAS Series)

The first how-to guide for online storage management with Windows2000In this book, expert Paul Massiglia first provides a clear tutorialon the principles of managed online storage and then walks youthrough the basics of how to manage your disks and RAID arrays inthe Windows 2000 server environment. He provides all theinformation system administrators need to take advantage of Windows2000's powerful new capabilities for handling large numbers ofdisks and RAID subsystems. Using both the embedded capabilities ofthe Windows 2000 operating system, VERITAS Volume Manager--thede-facto standard for application storage--and other workingexamples, Massiglia clearly illustrates how to organize disks sothat all application data can be given the right balance ofavailability, I/O performance, and online storage cost. Readerswill learn about online storage architectures, failure andnon-failure tolerant volumes, RAID, online disks, and creating andmanaging volumes.

Auteur
PAUL MASSIGLIA is Technical Director of Engineering for VERITAS Software Corporation. He has spent the last twenty years engineering and product managing enterprise data storage for some of the industry's leading suppliers, including the former Digital Equipment Corporation, Adaptec Inc., Quantum Corporation, and VERITAS Software Corporation. Massiglia is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Board of Directors and is the author of three previous books on data storage topics.
Wiley Computer Publishing has teamed with VERITAS Software Corporation to de-liver a series of books for the enterprise storage management community. These titles will provide system and network administrators, server application developers, and storage engineers with in-depth, hands-on information on how to build scalable, quick, and highly available storage area networks. Key books in the series, including this one, are designed to help CIOs make the decisions as to when and how to embark on investing in new technology.

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A guide to managing online storage in Windows server environments

Managing online storage effectively is becoming an essential component of the information processing strategy as enterprises place increasing reliance on their data assets. The many online storage management options available for the Windows server environment can be bewildering to a system administrator, however. In this book, Paul Massiglia draws on his twenty-plus years of experience in enterprise data storage to dispel the uncertainty and provide the Windows system administrator with a complete toolkit for online storage management.

Starting with an explanation of how disks can be combined under software management to enhance data availability and I/O performance, Massiglia goes on to discuss hardware and software implementation options available in the Windows server environment. Numerous examples illustrate the use of both embedded and external RAID subsystems, as well as software management of logical disk volumes to provide failure-tolerant, high-performance online storage for Windows server applications.

Using both capabilities delivered by the Windows 2000 operating system and enhanced features of the VERITAS Volume Manager-- the de facto standard for Windows online data storage-- Massiglia illustrates how to organize disks so that all data can receive the right balance of availability, I/O performance, and storage cost. You'll learn about:

• Intelligent disk drives
• Storage architectures for enterprise servers
• Combining disks into logical volumes to improve data availability and I/O performance
• Properties of striping, mirroring, and RAID technologies
• Hardware and software alternatives for implementing logical volumes
• Using failure-tolerant volumes to reduce backup windows
• Managing logical volumes in clusters of Windows servers

• Long-distance data replication for publication and disaster recovery

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Résumé
The first how-to guide for online storage management with Windows 2000
In this book, expert Paul Massiglia first provides a clear tutorial on the principles of managed online storage and then walks you through the basics of how to manage your disks and RAID arrays in the Windows 2000 server environment. He provides all the information system administrators need to take advantage of Windows 2000's powerful new capabilities for handling large numbers of disks and RAID subsystems. Using both the embedded capabilities of the Windows 2000 operating system, VERITAS Volume Manager--the de-facto standard for application storage--and other working examples, Massiglia clearly illustrates how to organize disks so that all application data can be given the right balance of availability, I/O performance, and online storage cost. Readers will learn about online storage architectures, failure and non-failure tolerant volumes, RAID, online disks, and creating and managing volumes.

Contenu
Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

PART I: DISK STORAGE ARCHITECTURE.

Disk Storage Basics.

Volumes.

Volumes that are Not-Failure Tolerant.

Failure Tolerant Volumes: Mirroring and RAID.

PART II: VOLUMES MANAGEMENT FOR WINDOWS SERVERS.

Disks and Volumes in Windows 2000.

Host-Based Volumes in Windows Servers.

Basic Volumes.

Advanced Volumes.

More Volume Management.

MultiPath Data Access.

Managing Hardware Disk Arrays.

Managing Volumes in Clusters.

Data Replication: Managing Storage Over Distance.

Windows Online Storage Recommendations.

Appendix 1: Disk and Volume States.

Appendix 2: Recommendations at a Glance.

Glossary of Storage Terminology.

Index.