• Author:
  • Simitci, Huseyin
• Subject:
  Computer Communications & Networking
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
• Published:
  25/04/2003
• Price:
  $82.99
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* Features vendor-neutral coverage applicable to any storage network
* Includes a special case-study section citing real-world applications and examples
* The first vendor-neutral volume to cover storage network performance tuning and optimization
* Exacting performance monitoring and analysis maximizes the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of existing storage networks
* Meets the needs of network administrators, storage engineers, and IT professionals faced with shrinking budgets and growing data storage demands

HUSEYIN SIMITCI, PhD, is an engineering researcher at XIOtech Corporation and the author of several research papers devoted to high performance input/output systems and adaptive techniques in parallel file systems. His work contributed to the Scalable I/O Initiative and NSF-funded Grand Challenge programs.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: Performance Analysis Techniques.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Storage Networking Performance.

Chapter 2: Data Analysis Review.

Chapter 3: Analytic Modeling.

Chapter 4: Simulation Modeling.

Chapter 5: Experimental Analysis.

Part II: Performance Analysis and Modeling of Storage System Components.

Chapter 6: Modeling Storage Devices.

Chapter 7: Modeling Storage Interconnects.

Chapter 8: Modeling Storage Networks.

Chapter 9: Modeling Storage Workloads.

Part III: Storage Performance Engineering.

Chapter 10: Storage Quality of Service.

Chapter 11: Storage Capacity Planning.

Part IV: Storage Performance Tools.

Chapter 12: Storage Benchmarks.

Chapter 13: Performance Management and Monitoring Tools.

Part V: Storage Performance Tuning.

Chapter 14: Host System Tuning.

Chapter 15: Application Tuning.

Chapter 16: Storage Subsystem Tuning.

Chapter 17: Storage Network Tuning.

Part VI: Case Studies.

Chapter 18: Simulating Network Attached Storag e Performance.

Chapter 19: Modeling Remote Storage Replication Performance.

Chapter 20: Web and E-Commerce Data Center Performance Analysis.

Appendix: Glossary of Terms and Acronyms.

Index.