Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition

Preface

This book expands and updates the content of my earlier book Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel SANs, published in the winter of 1999. At a thin 202 pages, that book was the first to provide a brief overview of storage area network (SAN) technology and was widely adopted as an introductory and training text for both vendors and customers. Because of the rapid growth and technical development within the storage industry over the past three years, however, new functionality and technology initiatives are already trans forming the SAN landscape. Advances in Fibre Channel performance and switch technology, the introduction of SANs based on Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ( ...