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Highly available storage... is there another kind worth having? Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers describes proper design, implementation, and management of high-performance hard disk systems based on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Veritas Volume Manager. It's one of the few published documents on the Veritas system around, but that's not the only reason to consider Paul Massiglia's work. He does a great job of explaining what it means for a system's data store to be highly available, and pinpoints potential trouble areas (from the physical platters on up) that can keep systems from that ideal.He also deserves commendation for explaining some of the supporting technologies--server clustering and RAID systems--that make high availability of disk data possible. With an increasing number of shops implementing more coherent storage-management policies, a growing number of administrators need to add storage systems to their bag of tricks. This book clarifies many essentials for such people. Massiglia doesn't appear to be a bulletproofing zealot. Rather than place data safety above all else, he seems to do a reasonable job of balancing requirements (performance, safety, and money) against one another. He and his editors have also done a good job of illustrating their potentially dull subject. Nearly every page has at least one illustration (most illustrations are screen shots), and the explanatory prose is crisp and illuminating. --David Wall Topics covered: How to build and operate storage subsystems for reliable servers, using RAID, the clustering variants of Microsoft Windows 2000, and Veritas Volume Manager. This is mostly Veritas documentation, but there's good coverage of disk concepts and of server cluster provisioning rules, as well.
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