Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions

Enterprise-Ready Solutions to All Your Storage Challenges

If your organization's storage needs are modest, you'll benefit from this book. But if they're big, and if they're complicated, then you really can't afford to be without it. Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions helps you take advantage of all the storage technologies that Windows 2000 supports, teaching you, step-by-step, the standard and advanced techniques for managing data, ensuring its availability, and restoring it following a loss. Hundreds of clear, consistent examples illustrate these techniques in detail—so you stay on track and accomplish all your storage goals. Coverage includes:

• Understanding common storage concepts and terminology
• Understanding Windows 2000's storage enhancements
• Using RSM and RSS and avoiding their pitfalls
• Implementing SCSI solutions
• Implementing SAN and NAS solutions
• Working with RAID technologies
• Clustering with Windows 2000
• Performing file backup and server recovery
• Avoiding OS rebuild problems
• Backing up and recovering Exchange data
• Backing up and recovering SQL Server data
• Preparing for the future

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Windows 2000 Storage Overview
Chapter 2: Storage Terminology
Chapter 3: Windows 2000 Storage Enhancements
Chapter 4: Working with Removable Storage Manager
Chapter 5: SCSI Solutions
Chapter 6: Storage Area Networks (SANs)
Chapter 7: Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Chapter 8: RAID Technology
Chapter 9: Cluster Technology
Chapter 10: File System Backup and Recovery
Chapter 11: Operating System Rebuilds: The Gotchas
Chapter 12: Exchange 5.5/2000 Backup and Recovery
Chapter 13: SQL 7/2000 Backup/Recovery
Chapter 14: The Future of Storage

Glossary
Index