Administering Data Centers

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. The book describes various datacenter aspects such as: Facilities design. Way to increase service uptime using fault tolerance, RAID, server clusters, hardware redundancy and load balancing. Server capacity planning and implementation. Storage options and latest trends. Network architecture and deployment Data and network security. Server, network and storage management. 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. First book to show how to ensure close to 100% service uptime by 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. There are numerous real life anecdotes throughout the book described as Stories from the Tech Turf. Each chapter has a best practices section that briefly describes rules to best deploy resources to get the best return, the perfect hands-on guide.