Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers (eBook)

PAUL MASSIGLIA is Technical Director of Engineering for VERITASSoftware Corporation. He has spent the last twenty yearsengineering and product managing enterprise data storage for someof the industry's leading suppliers, including the former DigitalEquipment Corporation, Adaptec Inc., Quantum Corporation, andVERITAS Software Corporation. Massiglia is a member of the StorageNetworking Industry Association (SNIA) Board of Directors and isthe author of three previous books on data storage topics.Wiley Computer Publishing has teamed with VERITAS SoftwareCorporation to de-liver a series of books for the enterprisestorage management community. These titles will provide system andnetwork administrators, server application developers, and storageengineers with in-depth, hands-on information on how to buildscalable, quick, and highly available storage area networks. Keybooks in the series, including this one, are designed to help CIOsmake the decisions as to when and how to embark on investing in newtechnology.

Acknowledgments.Foreword.PART I: DISK STORAGE ARCHITECTURE.Disk Storage Basics.Volumes.Volumes that are Not-Failure Tolerant.Failure Tolerant Volumes: Mirroring and RAID.PART II: VOLUMES MANAGEMENT FOR WINDOWS SERVERS.Disks and Volumes in Windows 2000.Host-Based Volumes in Windows Servers.Basic Volumes.Advanced Volumes.More Volume Management.MultiPath Data Access.Managing Hardware Disk Arrays.Managing Volumes in Clusters.Data Replication: Managing Storage Over Distance.Windows Online Storage Recommendations.Appendix 1: Disk and Volume States.Appendix 2: Recommendations at a Glance.Glossary of Storage Terminology.Index.