Storage Area Networks For Dummies

If you€ve been charged with setting up storage area networks for your company, learning how SANs work and managing data storage problems might seem challenging. Storage Area Networks For Dummies, 2^nd Edition comes to the rescue with just what you need to know.

Whether you already a bit SAN savvy or you€re a complete novice, here€s the scoop on how SANs save money, how to implement new technologies like data de-duplication, iScsi, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, how to develop SANs that will aid your company€s disaster recovery plan, and much more. For example, you can:

• Understand what SANs are, whether you need one, and what you need to build one
• Learn to use loops, switches, and fabric, and design your SAN for peak performance
• Create a disaster recovery plan with the appropriate guidelines, remote site, and data copy techniques
• Discover how to connect or extend SANs and how compression can reduce costs
• Compare tape and disk backups and network vs. SAN backup to choose the solution you need
• Find out how data de-duplication makes sense for backup, replication, and retention
• Follow great troubleshooting tips to help you find and fix a problem
• Benefit from a glossary of all those pesky acronyms

From the basics for beginners to advanced features like snapshot copies, storage virtualization, and heading off problems before they happen, here€s what you need to do the job with confidence!