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Summary: Learn about Fibre Channel and Storage Area Networks
Review: "Designing Storage Area Networks" is a concise and practical introduction to two new and important technologies: Fibre Channel and Storage Area Networks (SANs). The book starts out by describing fibre channel technology and products, then moves on to describe how to build storage area networks using fibre channel components to solve various storage access problems. The book even includes some information to help the reader diagnose problems that might occur with a SAN. If you need to come up to speed on these new technologies, then this is the book for you. Even though I would have liked to see more information on SAN applications, I still recommend this book. The topic is timely, and this book is so useful that the company I work for ordered copies for all sales, marketing, and engineering staff.
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Summary: Learn about Fibre Channel and Storage Area Networks
Review: "Designing Storage Area Networks" is a concise and practical introduction to two new and important technologies: Fibre Channel and Storage Area Networks (SANs). The book starts out by describing fibre channel technology and products, then moves on to describe how to build storage area networks using fibre channel components to solve various storage access problems. The book even includes some information to help the reader diagnose problems that might occur with a SAN. If you need to come up to speed on these new technologies, then this is the book for you. Even though I would have liked to see more information on SAN applications, I still recommend this book. The topic is timely, and this book is so useful that the company I work for ordered copies for all sales, marketing, and engineering staff.
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Summary: Storage Area Networks Review
Review: "Designing Storage Area Networks" is a very good reference for Storage area networks. The author does a great job of explaining Fibre Channel technology and how it relates to storage networking issues.
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Summary: Coulda been betta
Review: As a career information technology manager and consultant, currently working in storage area network deployments, I found the book to meet some of my expectations, but miss the boat on others.A very user-friendly and surprisingly detailed (at times) overview of storage area networking. The basics of the fiber channel protocol and network elements were covered, providing the reader with a firm, yet easy-to-digest foundation in SAN. Other applications, such as disaster recovery, fault tolerance, requirements gathering and analysis, clustering, and backups were also discussed. The book definitely packed a lot of information in a very small space (~170 pages of text). The greatest weakness of the version that I read (4th printing in 1999), presumably the latest available, was that it focused heavily on arbitrated loop design, and not so much on next generation switch fabrics. The complex arbitrated loop applications that it used as examples have been made obsolete by much simpler, feature-rich fabric switched solutions. And ultra-scalable (cascaded switched fabric) networks were almost entirely ignored. An update on this book is desperately needed, or else it runs the risk of being a history text more than the introductory and quick-reference manual it was intended to be. Definitely worth the money if you are a beginner needing an overview or if you can get a used copy.
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Summary: good book, writing style too boring however
Review: good book, writing style too boring however.
coverage of the topic is good.
deatils are good.
BUT, it is written like tech. paper (not that boring, you
get the idea).
worth reading, for sure.
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Summary: Wow! Deserves an Excellence in Technical Writing Award
Review: I found this book a great primer for anyone planning on building a SAN. Great detail went into educating the reader about the different topologies and terms. The only downfall was a lack of specific details about parts/vendors. This book provides an unbaised educational tour of SANs.
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Summary: What a great primer
Review: I found this book a great primer for anyone planning on building a SAN. Great detail went into educating the reader about the different topologies and terms. The only downfall was a lack of specific details about parts/vendors. This book provides an unbaised educational tour of SANs.
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Summary: Good Things in Small packages
Review: I was amazed at the amout of hard core technical knowleage that was presented in this book. The author goes to a great level of detail, that you would expect in a book 2-3 times the size. It is a great introduction to the technical details behind SANs and how they are designed and how they funtion
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Summary: Good Things in Small packages
Review: I was amazed at the amout of hard core technical knowleage that was presented in this book. The author goes to a great level of detail, that you would expect in a book 2-3 times the size. It is a great introduction to the technical details behind SANs and how they are designed and how they funtion
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Summary: Excellent Primer for SANS
Review: This book is a "must have" for anyone contemplating a SAN Solution.
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