The Cisco Mds Cookbook

by Seth Mason, Venkat Kirishnamurthyi

The MDS Cookbook for SANOS 3.x delivers recipes for implementing best practices and proven methodologies into the hands of those that are implementing their first MDS SAN to those fine tuning the largest installations. Covers topics ranging from basic management techniques to implementing multiprotocol recipes involving FibreChannel over IP and iSCSI. Each recipe is "spiced up" with tips based upon years of Storage Networking experience.

276 pages, Paperback

First published December 13, 2007

About the author

Seth Mason was the pen name of Gordon Shumway, under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling line of Oriental themed RPG books (Legend of the 5 rings). He also wrote under the names Kim Hosmer and Aaron Medwin.
Mason was born to share croppers in western Missouri. He served two tours in Iraq (from 2004 to 2007) with the United States Army as a helicopter gunner. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and three purple hearts. He began writing in 1994 was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He described himself as "confirmed bachelor". When discussing the farer sex, Seth was heard to say " Where do I start? They're distracting. They way over think shit. And did you know thier "monthly visitor"attracts dragons?"