Unix Storage Management

Unix Storage Management is a comprehensive guide to storage architectures and management and offers an array of crucial information to storage administrators interested in making the most of their corporate Unix system. Ray A. Kampa and Lydia V. Bell expound upon a wide range of topics, including general storage principles, storage project management, storage architectures, storage management software, network-connected storage solutions, backup/restoration strategies, performance analysis/management, and more.

Doubling as a reference for the storage manager of today's rapidly changing storage marketplace, Unix Storage Management offers listings of key acronyms and vendor and organization Web sites, in addition to a wealth of technical details and a primer on TCP/IP networks. Throughout, Kampa and Bell pepper their discussion with a historical perspective of the data storage industry. This book is an invaluable tool for both seasoned and novice storage managers who want to analyze present storage installations and plan for future upgrades.

Contents

Chapter 1: Storage Strategies
Chapter 2: Storage Technologies Overview
Chapter 3: Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
Chapter 4: Network-Connected Storage
Chapter 5: Backup and Restore
Chapter 6: Disaster Recovery
Chapter 7: Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
Chapter 8: Performance Analysis
Chapter 9: Capacity Planning
Chapter 10: Vendor Management
Appendix A DAS Hardware Vendors
Appendix B NAS Hardware Vendors
Appendix C SAN Hardware Vendors
Appendix D Storage Management Software Vendors
Appendix E TCP/IP Network Primer