| View Larger Image | Principles of SAN Design: Updated for 2007 | Paperbackby Josh Judd (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Infinity Publishing | | Page Count: | 509 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 17, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 100,647th |
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Product Description
Storage Area Networks provide highly reliable, high-performance connectivity between hosts and storage devices. This allows storage resource sharing, improving asset utilization, and enabling solutions such as high availability, disaster recovery, information lifecycle management, and utility computing. These solutions provide a high return on investment, resulting in an accelerating SAN adoption rate in all IT markets. This book provides an overview of SAN protocols and technologies, and practical guidance on SAN design, implementation, and management topics. Some future SAN trends and technologies are discussed, but the focus is on designing SANs with current, real-world products such as Fibre Channel switches and routers. Principles of SAN Design offers a "one stop shop" for SAN design knowledge. Why wait? Read the definitive work on SAN design today! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Good Brocade Content, Ignore the FUD by Browncoat001 (In the Black)  3 Stars
January 29, 2008
Overall, it isn't a bad book. The Brocade and fibre channel content is well done. The problem is this book just stinks of anti-iSCSI and Cisco product FUD. As long as you are aware of this going in, you will be fine. Make sure this isn't your only source of knowledge.
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Nice book by Lei, Ching-hai (Taiwan)  4 Stars
March 08, 2007
I like this book. If your job is a counsount you realy need that.
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Enjoyed the book by H. Murchison (Bothell, WA United States) 4 Stars
July 06, 2006
I think this book has done a great job of informing me about the task of SAN Design and contains bountiful information about Fibre Channel's prowess in SAN design. I will echo the sentiments of the other poster. iSCSI is never spoken about in a really positive light. I think this is perhaps a bit short sighted as there are differing performance needs for SAN design and a Designer would have to be silly not to look at every avenue.
I think Judd has written the book in a very informative manner and I enjoyed reading the footnotes about what "other" vendors have done or haven't done. I can always verify this on my own but I might not even think to look at certain aspects of a particular product. This book brings those extra topics into the discussion.
This "is" a Brocade book so we're talking about Brocade solutions here and I'm sure you'd read a slightly different version from Qlogic or McData but all in all it was pretty fair. Fair enough that I'm considering grabbing the book on Multiprotocol Routing. Regards
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Pretty good introduction to SAN technology and design principles by N. B. Farmer (Provo, UT) 4 Stars
January 13, 2006
I thought this book was a good introduction into the basic technologies, design principles, and design considerations that go into building a high-performance SAN. I enjoyed the author's use of real life customer examples and also practical principles that almost seem obvious (after he states them of course).
My only complaint is the pejorative view of iSCSI technology -- he basically says you would have to be dumb as a post to use iSCSI, and therefore, doesn't give very much good information on it. Since I was looking for a relatively unbiased look at SAN's, this lowered my rating overall.
That aside though, this is a great starting point to understanding the in's and outs of SAN design and operation. I would recommend it to anyone.
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