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The Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks

Chapter 13: Installation and Deployment


March 18, 2002


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The Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks

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Here is our 3-part chapter excerpt from the book The Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks by John Vacca; ISBN: 0-13-093575-1; copyright 2002, 614 pages.

Our series takes a look at Chapter 13: Installation and Deployment.



How much do you know about the fundamentals of SANs? In John Vacca's recent release, The Essential Guide to Storage Area Networks, you'll get a detailed look at the types of SAN technology and the challenges of implementing Storage Area Networks now -- and in the future.

Information from this chapter covers a wide range of topics, from configuring Fibre Channel-based SANs to implementing SAN technology, hubs and switches. To view each excerpt, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. To obtain a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05, click on one of the files available from IT Pro Downloads:

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Read Part 1 - How to Deploy a SAN

Read Part 2 - Getting Started on SAN

Read Part 3 - The Next Phase of SAN Deployment: Storage Switch Technology



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