Introduction


Welcome to Upgrading and Repairing Servers. With networks becoming essential to business operation and more vendors than ever before selling preconfigured servers and server components that allow you to "roll your own" server, it's time for a book that provides authoritative information on servers, their components, and the network and physical environment needed to make a server-based network work for you and your company. That book is Upgrading and Repairing Servers. As the title implies, this book is designed to follow in the footsteps of Upgrading and Repairing PCs by providing the same depth and quality of information found in that tome, only tailored for the world of servers.

Many PC users, even experts, often feel that the world of servers and server-based networks is an alien one, filled with technologies and terminologies utterly different from those found on PCs. Upgrading and Repairing Servers is designed to help you understand that "other world" by showing you how PCs and servers are similar in some ways and by explaining clearly how, and why, they differ. Some types of current PC technology, such as Serial ATA (SATA) drives, RAID arrays, and I/O devices, are also mainstays of server design. However, other components commonly found in servers, such as SCSI drives, high-performance tape backups, rack-mounted chassis, storage area networks (SANs), fault tolerance, Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and redundant power supplies, are not typically found in PCs. Upgrading and Repairing Servers is designed to help readers who understand PC technology to apply and extend that knowledge into the world of servers. After reading this book, you will be more comfortable with server technology, understand what makes a server a server, and be ready to build, upgrade, and repair a wide variety of servers. Although Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs was the inspiration for this book and provided the basis for some of its content, Upgrading and Repairing Servers is much more than a rehash of its PC-oriented sibling. This book focuses on server technology. While some server components are similar (or identical) to those found in desktop computers, those technologies are often used in different ways or are far less important on a server than on a desktop. Servers also use many technologies that aren't implemented in desktop or laptop computers. Upgrading and Repairing Servers is designed to help you understand how servers use both PC-related and server-specific technologies and to help you master those technologies.




Upgrading and Repairing Servers
Upgrading and Repairing Servers
ISBN: 078972815X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 240

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