Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions (The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series) [Paperback]

Peter Bruzzese (Author), Chris Wolf (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782128831 | ISBN-13: 978-0782128833 | Publication Date: January 18, 2002 | Edition: 1

Enterprise-Ready Solutions to All Your Storage Challenges

If your organization's storage needs are modest, you'll benefit from this book. But if they're big, and if they're complicated, then you really can't afford to be without it. Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions helps you take advantage of all the storage technologies that Windows 2000 supports, teaching you, step-by-step, the standard and advanced techniques for managing data, ensuring its availability, and restoring it following a loss. Hundreds of clear, consistent examples illustrate these techniques in detail--so you stay on track and accomplish all your storage goals. Coverage includes:
* Understanding common storage concepts and terminology
* Understanding Windows 2000's storage enhancements
* Using RSM and RSS and avoiding their pitfalls
* Implementing SCSI solutions
* Implementing SAN and NAS solutions
* Working with RAID technologies
* Clustering with Windows 2000
* Performing file backup and server recovery
* Avoiding OS rebuild problems
* Backing up and recovering Exchange data
* Backing up and recovering SQL Server data
* Preparing for the future
About the Series
The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series equips system administrators with in-depth technical solutions to the many challenges associated with administering Windows 2000 in an enterprise setting. The series editor is leading Windows NT/2000 expert Mark Minasi, who selects the topics and authors, and then develops and reviews each book to ensure that every member of the series meets your needs and helps you achieve your goals.

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From the Publisher

The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series equips system administrators with in-depth technical solutions to the many challenges associated with administering Windows 2000 in an enterprise setting. The series editor is leading Windows NT/2000 expert Mark Minasi, who selects the topics and authors, and then develops and reviews each book to ensure that every member of the series meets your needs and helps you achieve your goals.

From the Author

When you want to learn to ski you don't go out and purchase a book on the structure of snow. The same is true of storage. Most books on the market teach you the inner workings of storage using terms like heterogeneous and ubiquitous. Our goal here was to present a text for the real administrators out there. A book that will help people work with storage, rather than conceptualize about it. Hope it helps you to do just that.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (January 18, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782128831
• ISBN-13: 978-0782128833
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,676,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Information about SM, September 15, 2002

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Luis Miguel Carvalho - See all my reviews

This review is from: Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions (The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series) (Paperback)

these two excellent writers are not biased at all given the fact that they work for a manufacturer. chapter after chapter you can feel the amount of dedication and knowledge that has been put into the writting of this book.

All forms of storage management are addressed - from small business to isp cenarios.

the chapters about exhange and sql backup/recovery are really well written, as well as the scsi chapter.

mark minasi choose the perfect writers that are straight to the point, just like him i guess :)

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Enterprise Storage Reference, June 19, 2002

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Keith Martin (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions (The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series) (Paperback)

I normally don't write reviews but fealt compelled after seeing someone only give this book 2 stars. Personally, I love this book. While it could have spent hundreds of pages on SAN and NAS concepts, I did not think that the authors wanted to, nor did I buy the book to learn about SAN and NAS exclusively. I thought that the book delivered on its promise, which was to clearly identify Microsoft network storage. The book has a "Gotchas" chapter that shows many of the Microsoft backup and recovery pitfalls, and I found the Exchange and SQL backup and recovery chapters very useful is well. This is a great book for anyone that is new to storage management, or has been managing enterprise backup and recovery for some time. For me, learning about a single Windows 2000 gotcha that could save me in a disaster recovery scenario is worth the price of the book, let alone the hundreds of gotchas presented.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much info about Enterprise Storage, May 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions (The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series) (Paperback)

If you want basic info about I/O technology, backups and restores or removable storage, this book is an easy read. However, the two chapters that come closest to the Enterprise Storage topic were basically written by two hardware vendors and are not very useful. I bought the book based on it's title and association with Mark Minasi but wouldn't recommend it to others.