Rainer Erkens

Storage networks explained : basics and application of fibre channel SAN, NAS, iSCSI, and InfiniBand

About the Authors. Foreword by Tom Clark. Foreword to the German Edition by Hermann Strass. Preface by the Authors. List of Figures and Tables. 1. Introduction. PART I: TECHNOLOGIES FOR STORAGE NETWORKS. 2. Intelligent Disk Subsystems. 3. I/O Techniques. 4. File Systems and Network Attached Storage (NAS). 5. Storage Virtualization. PART II: APPLICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF STORAGE NETWORKS. 6. Application of Storage Networks. 7. Network Back-Up. 8. Management of Storage Networks. 9. Removable Media Management. 10. The SNIA Shared Storage Model. Glossary. Annoted Bibliography. Appendix A: Proof of the Calculation of the Parity Block of RAID 4 and 5. Appendix B: Checklist for the Management of Storage Networks. Index.