The Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks

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Summary: Wanna be a hero to your IT crew?
Review: This book is a "must have" for the libraries of any cutting edge IT department, or company that wants to stay ahead of the Storage Accounting mountain. Above and beyond the usual collection of traits that make John Vacca's books so easy to read yet copiously informative, John includes 6 priceless appendices. These include a SAN implementation checklist, product offerings, resource list, and much much more.

Rating:
Summary: Wanna be a hero to your IT crew?
Review: This book is a "must have" for the libraries of any cutting edge IT department, or company that wants to stay ahead of the Storage Accounting mountain. Above and beyond the usual collection of traits that make John Vacca's books so easy to read yet copiously informative, John includes 6 priceless appendices. These include a SAN implementation checklist, product offerings, resource list, and much much more.

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Summary: Vacca has done it again! Confusion cleared.
Review: This book is truly "essential" for all SAN managers. It covers the different platforms and configurations, as well as network standards. It also discusses SAN design issues, cost analysis, installation and testing, and the future role of SANs in business environments. Of particular interst to businesses employing SAN are the book's chapters on the various levels of testing (physical, application, and management layers); web applications of SANs; SAN maintenance; and step-by-step instructions for deploying a SAN. The Appendices contain useful checklists and important vendor information.

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Summary: A Must-Read for SAN Managers
Review: This book is truly "essential" for all SAN managers. It covers the different platforms and configurations, as well as network standards. It also discusses SAN design issues, cost analysis, installation and testing, and the future role of SANs in business environments. Of particular interst to businesses employing SAN are the book's chapters on the various levels of testing (physical, application, and management layers); web applications of SANs; SAN maintenance; and step-by-step instructions for deploying a SAN. The Appendices contain useful checklists and important vendor information.

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Summary: not very technical, and mostly low level when it is
Review: This book will tell you about Brocade's stock price and EMC's corporate culture, and about computer forensics' need of SAN storage, and about FC-AL, but if you need to know the different scalability characteristics of GFS versus StorageTank for your SAN file system, this is the wrong book (neither is even mentioned). I do like the fact that VAXclusters get mentioned; too many books think SAN means Fibre Channel only. "IDE" in this context means "integrated drive electronics", NOT "integrated development environment" (I consider this to be a fairly serious gaffe). Overall, I think the lack of information on how you turn a pile of hardware into a working system is a big drawback.

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Summary: a comprehensive look at storage area networks
Review: This comprehensive guide covers everything about storage area networks from installation to the latest standards. Different types of SAN technology and implementation plans are not forgotten. This is a very thorough discussion of storage area networks.

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Summary: Well written, highly recommended
Review: This is a complete guide to a SANs. Anyone in the core enterprise business will consider this a *must read* book. Well organized and expertly written.

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Summary: Great coverage of SANS management
Review: This is a great book on SANS. It covers SANS topics from A to Z and is easy to read and understand. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: Great Reference
Review: This is a great reference book for Storage Area Networks.

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Summary: Best SAN guide.
Review: This is another outstanding book by John Vacca on the most up-to-date SAN guide for decision makers. It helps the decision maker plan, design and visualize the SAN architecture. The decision maker can then deploy the system. The book also provides installation and deployment of SANs with knowledge of how to test the performance and maintaince. The book gives the decision maker an in-depth coverage of application for mission-critical systems. The is a must buy book for an essential guide to Storage Area Networks.