• A basic guide to setting up and using this complex technology, making the lucrative world of computer storage accessible even to a novice in the storage field
• Offers networking professionals practical, hands-on instructions for implementing and maintaining a Storage Area Network, allowing them to get up and running quickly
• As a corporate asset, the value of secure, available storage continues to escalate, while professionals trained to manage SANs are in critically short supply
• Average salaries for storage networking professionals range from $69K to $85K, generating tremendous interest in this field
• Author, a twenty-year storage industry veteran, has designed and implemented storage area networks for most of the Fortune 100 companies

Contents

• The Storage Area Network
• SAN Building Blocks
• What Makes a SAN Go
• What Makes a SAN Stop

• Designing the SAN
• SANs and Disaster Recovery
• Putting It All Together

• Networking SANs
• SAN-based Backup
• Booting into the SAN
• Mirror, Mirror: Point-in-Time Copies

• SAN Management
• Outsourcing Your SAN
• Troubleshooting SANs

• Ten Things to Ask in an RFI
• Ten Places to Go for More Information
• Ten Reasons to Use a SAN
• Ten Reasons NOT to Use a SAN