Inside Windows Storage: Server Storage Technologies for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Beyond

ISBN: 032112698X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 111

Authors: Dilip C. Naik

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COVER
TOC
Copyright
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction to Windows NT and Windows NT Storage Device Drivers
Section 1.1. Windows Kernel Mode and User Mode
Section 1.2. Processes, Process Context, and Threads
Section 1.3. Windows NT Architecture
Section 1.4. Windows Device DriverRelated Data Structures
Section 1.5. Anatomy of a Windows Device Driver
Section 1.6. Drivers and IO Buffers
Section 1.7. Storage Driver Hierarchy and Driver Types
Section 1.8. A Typical Storage Application IO
Section 1.9. Practical Implications
Section 1.10. Summary
Chapter 2. Direct-Attached Storage
Section 2.1. SCSI
Section 2.2. IDE, EIDE, and ATA
Section 2.3. Mini IDE Driver Model
Section 2.4. The Emergence of HBAs
Section 2.5. LUNs
Section 2.6. Storport Driver
Section 2.7. Practical Implications
Section 2.8. Summary
Chapter 3. Network-Attached Storage
Section 3.1. The Emergence of NAS
Section 3.2. The Windows NT Network Stack
Section 3.3. Common Internet File System and Server Message Blocks
Section 3.4. Network File System
Section 3.5. Multiprotocol Access Problems
Section 3.6. Windows and NAS
Section 3.7. Microsoft Exchange 2000 and NAS
Section 3.8. Practical Implications
Section 3.9. Summary
Chapter 4. Introduction to Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks
Section 4.1. The Need for Fibre Channel
Section 4.2. Comparison of Network-Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks
Section 4.3. Advantages of Fibre Channel
Section 4.4. Fibre Channel Topologies
Section 4.5. Fibre Channel Port Types
Section 4.6. Fibre Channel Protocol
Section 4.7. SAN Building Blocks
Section 4.8. Fibre Channel Management Concepts
Section 4.9. Fibre Channel Interoperability
Section 4.10. Practical Implications
Section 4.11. Summary
Chapter 5. Backup and Restore Technologies
Section 5.1. Reasons for Backup and Restore
Section 5.2. Backup Problems
Section 5.3. Backup Classifications
Section 5.4. Windows 2000 Backup Utility
Section 5.5. Techniques to Create a Volume Snapshot
Section 5.6. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Service
Section 5.7. Windows-Powered NAS Devices and Snapshots
Section 5.8. Network Data Management Protocol
Section 5.9. Practical Implications
Section 5.10. Summary
Chapter 6. File Systems
Section 6.1. Disks, Partitions, and Volumes
Section 6.2. Volumes and Volume Managers
Section 6.3. Device Namespace
Section 6.4. Nonprimary File Systems
Section 6.5. NTFS
Section 6.6. SAN File Systems
Section 6.7. Practical Implications
Section 6.8. Summary
Chapter 7. Storage Management
Section 7.1. The Common Information Model and WBEM
Section 7.2. Windows Management Instrumentation
Section 7.3. Storage Virtualization
Section 7.4. Microsoft Storage Virtualization Vision
Section 7.5. HBA API
Section 7.6. Management Command-Line Utilities
Section 7.7. SAN Security
Section 7.8. Hierarchical Storage Management
Section 7.9. The Future of SNIA Storage Management: The Storage Management Initiative
Section 7.10. Practical Implications
Section 7.11. Summary
Chapter 8. IP Storage and InfiniBand
Section 8.1. IP Storage
Section 8.2. InfiniBand
Section 8.3. Practical Implications
Section 8.4. Summary
Chapter 9. High Availability
Section 9.1. RAID
Section 9.2. Windows NT and RAID Implementation
Section 9.3. High Availability Using Redundancy
Section 9.4. Local and Remote Mirroring
Section 9.5. Practical Implications
Section 9.6. Summary
Chapter 10. Storage Features by Windows Product Release Cycles
Section 10.1. Windows NT 4.0
Section 10.2. Windows 2000
Section 10.3. Windows Server 2003
Section 10.4. Post-Windows Server 2003
Section 10.5. What s Missing?
Section 10.6. Practical Implications
Section 10.7. Summary
References
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9