Administering Data Centers: Servers, Storage, And

The book covers datacenter topics and provides comprehensive depth on each subject. The emerging datacenter technologies are described along with their functional implementation, merits, demerits and the types of situations for which they are best suited. Each topic has a comprehensive and dedicated chapter. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the topic at hand and then goes on to explain various design options and best practices in that area. It describes potential problems and how to build resiliency into the network, servers and storage to prevent service outages despite hardware or software failures. The concepts of high availability, fault tolerance, redundancy, clustering, and disaster recovery are explained with examples. Only book that covers well-established technologies as well as the latest trends that will make it easier and cheaper for datacenter managers, system administrators, network administrators, and database managers to run today’s newest technologies cost-effectively.


Table of contents :
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Data Center Basics
· No Time for Downtime
· The High-Availability Continuum
Part II: Data Center Architecture
· Data Center Requirements
· Data Center Design
· Network Infrastructure in a Data Center
· Data Center Maintenance
· Power Distribution in a Data Center
· Data Center HVAC
Part III: Data Center Consolidation
· Reasons for Data Center Consolidation
· Data Center Consolidation Phases
Part IV: Data Center Servers
· Server Performance Metrics
· Server Capacity Planning
· Best Practices in IT
· Server Security
· Server Administration
· Device Naming
· Load Balancing
· Fault Tolerance
· RAID
Part V: Data Storage Technologies
· Data Storage Solutions
· Storage Area Networks
· Configuring a SAN
· Using SANs for High Availability
· IP-Based Storage Communications
Part VI: Data Center Clusters
· Cluster Architecture
· Cluster Requirements
· Designing Cluster-Friendly Applications
Part VII: Network Design, Implementation, and Security
· Network Devices
· Network Protocols
· IP Addressing
· Network Technologies
· Network Topologies
· Network Design
· Designing Fault-Tolerant Networks
· Internet Access Technologies and VPNs
· Firewalls
· Network Security
Part VIII: Disaster Recovery
· Disaster Recovery
· DR Architectures
Part IX: Future Considerations
· Voice over IP and Converged Infrastructure
· What’s Next
Part X: Appendix
Appendix A: Storage and Networking Solutions
Glossary
Index




Market Description :
· System managers, Network administrators, Storage administrators, Database Administrators, IT Managers, Datacenter facilities team, Capital purchase managers, 3rd party companies who run datacenters for companies as “outsourcers”.

· University students taking courses in datacenter setup and management, high availability and modern infrastructure trends


About Author :
Kailash Jayaswal is Systems Manager for Cisco Systems, Inc. He has 15 years of technical experience at companies such as Caterpillar Inc., Roche Bioscience, IBM, Siebel and Cisco Systems, Inc. working with operating systems, servers, network technologies and storage products from Sun, EMC, IBM, Veritas, Intel, Microsoft, Network Appliance, and HP.