Building High Availability Windows Server™ 2003 Solutions [Paperback]

Jeffrey R. Shapiro (Author), Marcin Policht (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 24, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0321228782 | ISBN-13: 978-0321228789 | Edition: 1

Over the last year many companies and government organizations began migrating from platforms such as UNIX to the Windows 2003 platform to have a high performance system that is available 24X7. However, these organizations face a huge learning curve on how best to set up high performance Windows Server 2003 networks for maximum availability and power. This book provides a clear and concise road map on keeping systems up 24X7 with the Windows platform. It delves into topics that explain how touse Windows Server 2003 technology for scalability, uptime, performance, and management, and how to avoid getting in trouble at the same time. This bookanswers questions network administrators ask such as, "Should we cluster, load balance, or both? Or should we invest in hot standbys? What works best? "After providing answers, Shapiro goes beyond discussing failover and faulttolerance to explaining monitoring, disaster recovery, and choosing the right technology to achieve maximum availability and high performance. This is thefirst book that not only provides thorough coverage of core clusterconfiguration and load balancing, but also explains how to maintain andadminister a Windows 2003 high performance system, and restore and recoverfailed servers in the event of a disaster.

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From the Back Cover

This is the definitive resource for every network administrator, consultant, and architect who needs to maximize availability, scalability, and performance in Windows server environments.

Drawing on two decades of Windows server experience, Jeffrey Shapiro and Marcin Policht have written the most realistic, comprehensive, and independent Windows high availability guide ever published. One step at, a time, they help you plan, implement, and manage clustering, load balancing, fault tolerance, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and much more. Along the way, they address crucial high availability topics that are virtually ignored by most books, such as disaster recovery, performance monitoring, and operations management.

Shapiro and Policht offer a clear, concise roadmap for keeping Windows servers running 24x7 and delivering on even the most challenging service-level agreements. They provide real-world case studies and easy-to-use instructions designed to help readers make better decisions more rapidly.

Coverage includes

• Building the foundations for a highly available Active Directory and network architecture

• Selecting and integrating high-performance hardware, storage, and networks

• Installing and configuring Windows Clustering Services for both scale-out and failover

• Leveraging the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Microsoft Systems Architecture (MSA)

• Delivering high-performance, high availability file- and print-server solutions

• Using clustering to maximize SQL Server and Exchange Server availability

• Restoring failed servers: best practices and step-by-step techniques for recovering from downtime or disaster

• Deploying Network Load Balancing (NLB) IIS and application servers

• Administering Windows Server 2003 high-performance systems—including performance monitoring and alerts with Microsoft Operations Manager

• Avoiding the pitfalls associated with Windows high availability solutions

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About the Author

Building High Availability Windows Server™ 2003 SolutionsAbout the Authors

Jeffrey R. Shapiro has worked in Information Technology for nearly 15 years. He is an industry-celebrated author and has published more than a dozen books on IT, network administration, and software development. Jeffrey has written for numerous publications over the years as well. He also regularly speaks at events and frequently participates in training courses on Microsoft systems.

Jeffrey has specialized in Microsoft technologies since 1989. From 1992 to 1998, he was CTO for a leading software development company specializing in telephony solutions for business and was credited with designing the architecture for one of the first Windows-based computer telephony platforms.

In early 2003 Jeffrey was selected to lead the Novell NetWare to Windows Server 2003 migration project for Broward County, Florida. His mandate was to design the architecture for an Active Directory network that would replace the hundreds of servers and Novell Directory Services (NDS) required to support more than 80 agencies. He was also in charge of designing the architecture for three mission-critical, high availability, high-performance data centers supporting thousands of public servants in one of the largest population centers in the United States.

In late 2004 Jeffrey turned his attention almost exclusively to systems and software architecture. He recently formed Normal Data, Inc., a company that specializes in architecting software for enterprise information technology solutions http://www.codetimes.com. Jeffrey can be reached on the Web at [e-mail].

Marcin Policht has diverse experience in areas of scripting and programming, as well as system engineering and administration of large-scale, high availability, Windows-based environments. He has shared his expertise as a technical trainer and as a writer, authoring a number of books and Web articles on subjects varying from WMI scripting to Active Directory management.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (December 24, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321228782
• ISBN-13: 978-0321228789
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,041,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not Great, September 2, 2005

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I was desperate for a book on windows clustering so this one looked pretty good. The first part deals with concepts and it is pretty good. The second part shows how to build the cluster and if you are into file&print, then it really stinks. There is barely anything but screenshots of the wizard.