Administering Data Centers: Servers, Storage and Voice Over IP

by Kailash Jayaswal

Covers the administration of all operating systems, data and network security, new trends in storage options, and server, network, and storage management Thoroughly explores each topic, with attention to various network and system design options, best practices, potential problems, and leading solutions Discusses how to build resiliency into the network, servers, and storage to prevent service outages despite hardware or software failures Includes plenty of real-world examples that illustrate objectives, problems, and solutions, along with a complete best practices section for every topic Shows administrators how to ensure close to 100 percent service uptime with various high-availability options such as redundancy and clustering; how to deal with server and storage proliferation, and how to manage separate networks for voice, IP, and storage

667 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 28, 2005