Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers

PAUL MASSIGLIA is Technical Director of Engineering for VERITAS Software Corporation. He has spent the last twenty years engineering and product managing enterprise data storage for some of the industry's leading suppliers, including the former Digital Equipment Corporation, Adaptec Inc., Quantum Corporation, and VERITAS Software Corporation. Massiglia is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Board of Directors and is the author of three previous books on data storage topics. Wiley Computer Publishing has teamed with VERITAS Software Corporation to de liver a series of books for the enterprise storage management community. These titles will provide system and network administrators, server application developers, and storage engineers with in depth, hands on information on how to build scalable, quick, and highly available storage area networks. Key books in the series, including this one, are designed to help CIOs make the decisions as to when and how to embark on investing in new technology.

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.