Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs

By Tom Clark

Book Overview

Written for network developers, IT consultants, administrators, and managers, this updated and expanded edition offers practical guidelines for using diverse SAN technologies to solve existing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321136500
• ISBN13: 9780321136503
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Detailed and well written yet still consice and compact

This is the kind of book that will give a solid foundation on storage concepts like iSCSI, iFCP, FCIP, SAN. It's not super detailed like reading standards documents. What I really liked on this book is the way it was written, it is very clear and easy to understand especially for a beginner or an IP network guy like me.

Great Book

This book is a very good overview of the field. The information contained therein is a little dated, but most of it still applies to today. It is well written and concise.

A definite good technical read

Good details description very easy to read, facts and information from the very basic to very technical. A definite good technical read.

Understand technology behind without reading T11 standards

This book is quite dry, no question about that, but not as dry as the standards published by organizations in charge with Fibre Channel standards. Yet, as a SAN designer or SAN administrator you can find in it all the information you need to understand the inner details of a Loop Insertion Primitive or how an Alternate buffer-to-buffer credit model works. Compared with other books on the subject is remarcably error free and I was nicely impressed by Mr. Clark's considerations upon what should be the customer' role in steering vendors in developing products that are more open and interoperate better.

A great introduction to SAN technology

This is an excellent piece of work covering the basics of SAN design, technology, and architecture. It is a quick read for systems and network architects that need to get up to speed fast on this technology. It is not for the computing novice. You must understand mid-level networking and storage concepts and have experience in them in order to get the benefits of this book.