Book description
This overview explains the basic elements of disks and disk architectures, and explores how to successfully manage and maintain functionality within a Windows environment. Critical issues covered include disk quotas, fragmentation, optimization, hard drive reliability, asset management, software deployment, and system forensics. This book is a valuable resource for IT veterans and those who are less tech-savvy. Students and IT newcomers can access multiple definitions and examples of fundamentals such as disk organization, file systems, and basic maintenance actions. Chapters examining hardware and software management and industry trends provide further insight into how you can maintain and monitor disks and have them perform at maximum efficiency.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents (1/2)
- Contents (2/2)
- Preface (1/2)
- Preface (2/2)
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Disk Performance and Fragmentation
- History and Origins of Fragmentation
- Does NTFS Suffer from Fragmentation?
- How Much Fragmentation Occurs in NTFS?
- Defining Fragmentation
- Free Space Fragmentation
- Fragmentation Adversely Affects Systems Stability
- Benefits of Defragmentation
- Remedying Fragmentation
- How Defragmenters Work
- Preventing MFT Fragmentation
- Page File Fragmentation
- Defragmentation Safety Issues
- Defragmentation Performance Testing
- Defragmenting a System
- Hardware Upgrades versus Defragmentation
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Disk Performance and Fragmentation
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Server Consolidation and Disk Management Simplification
- Harsh Economic Realities
- Assessing the Reliability, Availability, and Manageability of the Data Center
- Data Center Cost Analysis
- Leveraging New Technologies To Streamline Data Center Operations
- Scaling Out
- Scaling Up
- Server Price and Performance
- Wintel Servers Challenge Domination of Big Three
- Mid-Range Hardware for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Fewer Servers
- Server Consolidation at La-Z-Boy
- Limits to Consolidation
- When Consolidation Makes Sense
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Server Consolidation and Disk Management Simplification
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Chapter 13
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Windows Past, Windows Present: Windows NT and Windows 2000
- Windows NT
- The Windows 2000 Server Family (1/3)
- The Windows 2000 Server Family (2/3)
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The Windows 2000 Server Family (3/3)
- Windows 2000 Server
- Certified for Windows 2000 Logo
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- The Rigors of Windows 2000 Migration
- The Three Active Directory States: Native Mode, Mixed Mode, and Parallel Mode
- Windows 2000 Migrations Tools
- Making the Transition to Native Mode
- Consolidating Directories
- Windows 2000 Migration Case Studies
- No Universal AD Panacea
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Windows Past, Windows Present: Windows NT and Windows 2000
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Chapter 14
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Windows Present: Windows XP
- No More DOS
- XP Fastboot
- Boot Optimization versus File Optimization
- XP Fast Resume
- Tips To Improve the Impact of Fastboot and Fast Resume
- Underlying XP Architecture
- Beware XP’s Consumer Features
- XP Security Features
- XP Task Manager
- XP Performance Tool
- XP Quotas
- XP Backup
- Backward Compatibility of XP
- Extending Hardware Lifespan
- Improved XP Management
- Only Room for So Much
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Windows Present: Windows XP
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Chapter 15
- Windows Present and Future: Windows Server 2003, 64-Bit Computing, and Beyond
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Appendix A: Glossary of Terms (1/2)
- Appendix A: Glossary of Terms (2/2)
- Appendix B: Bibliography
- About the Author
- INDEX (1/3)
- INDEX (2/3)
- INDEX (3/3)
Product information
- Title: Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2003
- Publisher(s): Auerbach Publications
- ISBN: 9780203498743
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