Server Disk Management in a Windows Enviornment
Server Disk Management in a Windows Enviornment
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Year: 2003
Pages: 197
Pages: 197
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment
- Preface
- Why Windows Servers?
- Storage Management Costs
- What This Book Is Not
- What This Book Is
- Intended Audience
- Overall Direction
- Software, Not Hardware
- Chapter Organization and Content
- How To Read This Book
- Introduction
- The Disk Is the Bottleneck
- Disks Do Fail
- Storage Explosion
- Desktop Disks
- Chapter 1: Hard Disks and How They are Organized
- SCSI versus ATA
- What Is on a Disk
- Grouping Disks: Stripe Sets and RAID
- Evaluating Disks
- Mean Time between Failures
- Chapter 2: Windows File Systems
- Magnetic Disk Systems
- Optical Disk Formats
- Partitioning Strategies
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Hard Drive Reliability
- Adding Up the Cost of Disk Failure
- Do Not Rely on Backup
- Do Not Rely on RAID
- Predicting Failure
- Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)
- OEM Disk Monitoring Tools
- Disks Will Fail
- Chapter 4: Disk Management Basics for Windows 2000
- Basic Tasks
- Creation of Fault-Tolerant Disk Systems
- Disk Management Console
- Basic and Dynamic Disks and Windows XP
- Be Dynamic, Choose Dynamic
- Chapter 5: Backing up Windows Networks
- Windows Backup: What It Includes
- Using the Built-In Windows Backup Utility
- Beyond Basic Backups
- Backup Cautions
- Backing Up Mixed WindowsLinux Networks
- Storage Portal Case Study
- Chapter 6: Disaster Recovery and Disk Management
- A Blended Approach to Data Protection
- Make the DRP Comprehensive
- The Economics of Disaster
- Recognition of Mission-Critical Elements
- Data Organization
- Test and Refine Some More
- Chapter 7: Disk Performance and 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
- Chapter 8: Disk Optimization: Optimum or Not?
- Enter Optimization
- Optimization Pros and Cons
- Optimization Shortcomings
- Logical Cluster Numbers
- Multiple Partitions
- Server Issues
- RAID Arrays
- Proven Disk Performance Solutions
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9: Disk Quotas
- Quota Terminology
- Disk Quota Management
- Windows 2000 Built-In Quota Utility
- Third-Party Alternatives
- QuotaAdvisor
- Conclusion: Upgrade to a Third-Party Disk Quota Tool
- Chapter 10: Hard Disk Forensics: The Hard Disk as a Source of Evidence
- The Rise of Computer Crime
- Definitions of Computer Crime and Computer Forensics
- Uses of Computer Forensics
- Microsoft Word Confessions
- Finding Missing Files
- Shredder Programs
- Forensics Software
- Chapter 11: Simplifying Disk Management for Storage Assets
- SQL Server Backups
- Storage Evolution
- Shadow Sets
- Storage Virtualization
- Chapter 12: Server Consolidation and Disk Management Simplification
- 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
- Chapter 13: Windows Past, Windows Present: Windows NT and Windows 2000
- The Windows 2000 Server Family
- No Universal AD Panacea
- Chapter 14: Windows Present: Windows XP
- 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
- Only Room for So Much
- Chapter 15: Windows Present and Future: Windows Server 2003, 64-Bit Computing, and Beyond
- What Is .NET?
- .NET and Web Services
- .NET Slam Dunk
- Windows Server 2003
- XML Web Services and Windows Server 2003
- The Next Few Years of Windows: Longhorn, BlackComb, and XP Second Edition
- Chapter 16: Asset Management for Server Hardware and Software
- Hot Spots
- Piracy and Asset Management
- Asset Management Strata
- Microsoft Systems Management Server
- Simplifying Asset Management
- Chapter 17: Software Deployment and Distribution on Windows Platforms
- Security Breaches
- Securing the Walls
- Hot Spots
- Piracy and Asset Management
- Asset Management Strata
- Microsoft Systems Management Server
- Simplifying Asset Management
- Chapter 17: Software Deployment and Distribution on Windows Platforms
- Security Breaches
- Securing the Walls
- Automated Software Deployment
- Do You Feel Lucky?
- Chapter 18: The Future of Disks and Disk Management
- Faster Data Transfer
- Bigger and Better Drives
- What the Future Holds
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Glossary of Terms
- E-N
- P-S
- T-V
- Appendix B: Bibliography
- Index
- Index_B
- Index_C
- Index_D
- Index_E
- Index_F
- Index_G
- Index_H
- Index_I
- Index_J
- Index_L
- Index_M
- Index_N
- Index_O
- Index_P
- Index_Q
- Index_R
- Index_S
- Index_T
- Index_U
- Index_V
- Index_W
- Index_X
- Index_Z
- List of Exhibits
Server Disk Management in a Windows Enviornment
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2003
Pages: 197
Pages: 197