Highly available storage for Windows servers /

• Main Author: Massiglia, Paul
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : John Wiley, �2002.
• Series: Veritas series.
• Subjects: Microsoft Windows server.; Client/server computing.; Computer storage devices.; COMPUTERS > Reference.; COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.; COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.; COMPUTERS > Information Technology.; COMPUTERS > Data Processing.; COMPUTERS > Computer Science.; COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Disk Storage Architecture
• Disk Storage Basics
• Data Basics
• Transient Data
• Persistent Data
• Disk Basics
• Disks, Data and Standards
• Magnetic Disk Operation
• Pulse Timing and Recording Codes
• Error Correction Codes
• Locating Blocks of Data on Magnetic Disks
• Logical Block Addressing
• Zoned Data Recording
• Disk Media Defects
• Writing Data on Magnetic Disks
• Intelligent Disks
• Other Applications of Disk Intelligence: SMART Technology
• Disk Controller and Subsystem Basics
• External and Embedded Array Controllers
• Host-Based Aggregation
• Volumes
• The Volume Concept
• Virtualization in Volumes
• Why Volumes?
• The Anatomy of Windows Disk Volumes
• Mapping and Failure Protection: Plexes
• Volumes That Are Not Failure Tolerant
• Simple Volumes
• Spanned Volumes
• Spanned Volumes and Failure Tolerance
• Spanned Volumes and I/O Performance
• Applications for Simple and Spanned Volumes
• Striped Volumes
• Striped Volumes and Failure Tolerance
• Striped Volumes and I/O Performance
• Applications for Striped Volumes
• Why Striped Volumes Are Effective
• Striped Volumes and I/O Request-Intensive Applications
• Striped Volumes and Data Transfer-Intensive Applications
• Stripe Unit Size and I/O Performance
• A Way to Categorize the I/O Performance Effects of Data Striping
• An Important Optimization for Striped Volumes: Gather Writing and Scatter Reading
• Failure-Tolerant Volumes: Mirroring and RAID
• RAID: The Technology
• RAID Today
• Mirrored Volumes.