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Expert techniques for designing your system to achieve maximumavailability and predictable downtime
With your company's reputation and profits at stake, downtime onyour 24/7 web site is not an option, nor is poor applicationperformance. Now in its second edition, this authoritative bookprovides you with the design blueprints to maximize your systemavailability.
Striking a balance between costs and benefits, the authors show youall of the elements of your computer system that can fail-as wellas ways to assess their reliability and attain resiliency and highavailability for each one. A unique feature is „Tales from theField,“ a collection of true-to-life experiences that will help youavoid mistakes and deploy your system with confidence.
Learn how to design your system to limit the impact of suchproblems as computer viruses, natural disasters, or the corruptionof critical files and discover how to:
* Implement effective backup-and-restore and tape managementstrategies
* Arrange disks and disk arrays to avoid downtime caused byinevitable failures
* Utilize technologies such as Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Virtualization, and clustering
* Achieve effective application recovery after any part of thesystem has failed
* Replicate critical data to remote systems across a network
With your company's reputation and profits at stake, downtime onyour 24/7 web site is not an option, nor is poor applicationperformance. Now in its second edition, this authoritative bookprovides you with the design blueprints to maximize your systemavailability.
Striking a balance between costs and benefits, the authors show youall of the elements of your computer system that can fail-as wellas ways to assess their reliability and attain resiliency and highavailability for each one. A unique feature is „Tales from theField,“ a collection of true-to-life experiences that will help youavoid mistakes and deploy your system with confidence.
Learn how to design your system to limit the impact of suchproblems as computer viruses, natural disasters, or the corruptionof critical files and discover how to:
* Implement effective backup-and-restore and tape managementstrategies
* Arrange disks and disk arrays to avoid downtime caused byinevitable failures
* Utilize technologies such as Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Virtualization, and clustering
* Achieve effective application recovery after any part of thesystem has failed
* Replicate critical data to remote systems across a network
