Storage Area Networks For Dummies®

Part II. Designing and Building a SAN

In this part ...

If this were a book about home audio, Part I is about what a CD player does and how an amplifier works. This part covers how you get music out of these components by linking them together. We explain how to use hubs, switches, HBAs, fibre cables, and associated software to design a functioning storage area network.

This part also goes into detail about how to prepare for the worst. Although the subject is bleak, disaster recovery planning is very important and can save you a lot of time and money, keeping your business running if something bad happens.

After we cover how all the different pieces of a SAN work together and how to protect it, we take you through an actual soup-to-nuts SAN-building example to show you a complete step-by-step implementation.