Highly Available Storage for Windows^® Servers (VERITAS Series)

by Paul Massiglia

• ISBN13: 9780471034445
• ISBN10: 0471034444
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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&#146;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.<BR>

Table of Contents

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