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Summary: Two Words
Review: Blows Chunks...I was disappointed - this book seems very simple minded - yet lacking a lot of important and relevant information.;
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Summary: too thin on in depth knowledge
Review: I skimmed through this book in about an hour, I didn't gain much from this. Actually you can get all of the same info from the disksuite documentation and veritas vm online docs from their respective websites. At the least I would have hoped for a more indepth explination of data center best practices, etc.. I give this book a thumbs down..
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Summary: too thin on in depth knowledge
Review: I skimmed through this book in about an hour, I didn't gain much from this. Actually you can get all of the same info from the disksuite documentation and veritas vm online docs from their respective websites. At the least I would have hoped for a more indepth explination of data center best practices, etc.. I give this book a thumbs down..
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Summary: Innacurate...
Review: Not only useless because is far too simple written, but full of major mistakes too. In first 27 pages I spotted 2 major mistakes: One at page 8 were the listing is pretty much mangled in the upper part of the page. Also, as Unix Admins on real HA systems, we don't use the GUI but rather the command line which only got 5 pages in the book. The Disksuite documentation supplied by Sun and available at docs.sun.com is much better and not at all complicated. The volume manager part is outdated since the current version available use a completelly diferent GUI application. It was outdated even at the time the book was published. Hey, technical reviewers, why do you allow such books to appear ?
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Summary: First book I've ever returned
Review: This book is 100 pages end to end, and still full of air. There are screen shots and command-line invocations in boxes all over it, and it feels like padding. There are *no* explanations of the practical design ideas given, other than a comment such as "this solution will scale." Most solutions will scale if you use two disks arrays. Given the configuration in the book, the scaling bootable disk system is a mere [$$$] away. Nice. "If you want to do it the way we do it, here's how..." is the entire conceptual approach to the title. The text does say it's a "cookbook" in its intro, but [$$$] is a lot to ask for that. I expect anyone who wants to make money on their field notes will offer more than "consult the documentation for more" advice on realted subjects. The author doesn't even offer an overview for the tools or hardware shown. You might as well print a list of hyperlinks and ask [$$$]for it. I'd like to see Sun encourage all their employees to follow the likes of Brian Wong or Adrian Cockroft or Peter van der Linden, and write treatments with real depth if they're going to write them at all. Leave the hacking to others. Anyone can publish rough-draft field notes -- why put Sun's name on that?
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Summary: Great for someone new to DiskSuite
Review: This book is to basic to be called a "Guide to high availability". If you have any experience as SysAdmin you already know the contents. Also too many screen snapshots for a Unix book ...
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