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Ralph H. Thornburgh, Barry J. Schoenborn
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0130279595
Pub: Prentice Hall
Pub date: 2000-09-21
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1009836
Reader Reviews:
Decent overview, but lacks detail (0/0 people found this helpful)
This book provides a decent introduction to the ins and outs of SAN. It's readable, and easy for a techie (and maybe even a manager) to understand. It's also one big advert for HP, including a chapter devoted to an interview with HP's storage chief with questions like "HP's stock has done really well in recent months. To what extent does storage contribute..."
What it doesn't give are the in-depth details of exactly how all this hardware communicates with each other. There's a 10,000ft view, but nothing which shows which calls are being made, which is really what I'm looking for when I buy books of this nature.
From what I've seen since, one of the best books you can get on the detail level is The Fibre Channel Bench Reference, from ENDL publications. It's a true techie book, to be used for reference only - and for laughing at the authors' photos. Try finding it though...
A useful primer (0/0 people found this helpful)
A useful introduction and primer to SAN technology, very good on the naming of parts and how to put together a simple architecture. Both authors have connections with HP and the examples are based on HP kit, with the book sometimes reading like an HP manual, but its none the worse for that and gains from the clarity of the HP house style
Good Reference Guide for HP SAN / Storage / Tape solution (0/0 people found this helpful)
Well produced book with clear descriptions of concepts. The author explains key concepts well. Also very interesting thoughts about the future Storage & intelligent backup solutions. Very proprietory towards HP (Expected really, but SAN technology is more genric than one vendor). Most SAN solutions use mixture of key vendors products. I would recommend this book for HP shop, although it sits well between Tom Clark (Design Storage Area Networks) concepts book & Marc Farley (Building Storage Networks ) .
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