Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers

The first how-to guide for online storage management with Windows2000 In this book, expert Paul Massiglia first provides a clear tutorialon the principles of managed online storage and then walks youthrough the basics of how to manage your disks and RAID arrays inthe Windows 2000 server environment. He provides all theinformation system administrators need to take advantage of Windows2000's powerful new capabilities for handling large numbers ofdisks and RAID subsystems. Using both the embedded capabilities ofthe Windows 2000 operating system, VERITAS Volume Manager--thede-facto standard for application storage--and other workingexamples, Massiglia clearly illustrates how to organize disks sothat all application data can be given the right balance ofavailability, I/O performance, and online storage cost. Readerswill learn about online storage architectures, failure andnon-failure tolerant volumes, RAID, online disks, and creating andmanaging volumes.