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Announcing SAS SANs for Dummies book, LSI edition

There is a new ( free) book that I’m a co-author of along Bruce Grieshaber and Larry Jacob (both of LSI) alongwith foreword by Harry Mason of LSI and President of the SCSI Trade Association titled SAS SANs for Dummiescompliments of LSI.

This new book (ebook and print hard copy) looks atSerial Attached SCSI (SAS) and how it can be usedbeyond traditional direct attached storage (DAS)configurations for support various types of storagemediums including SSD, HDD and tape. Theseconfiguration options include as entry-level SAN withSAS switches for small clusters or server virtualization,or as shared DAS as well as being a scale out back-end solution for NAS, object, cloud and big datastorage solutions.

Here is the table of contents (TOC) of SAS SANs forDummies

Chapter 1: Data storage challenges

Storage Growth Demand Drivers

Recognizing Challenges

Solutions and Opportunities

Chapter 2: Storage Area Networks

Introducing Storage Area Networks

Moving from Dedicated Internal to Shared Storage

Chapter 3: SAS Basics

Introducing the Basics of SAS

How SAS Functions

Components of SAS

SAS Target Devices

SAS for SANs

Chapter 4: SAS Usage Scenarios

Understanding SAS SANs Usage

Shared SAS SANs Scenarios including:

SAS in HPC environments

Big data and big bandwidth

Database, e-mail, back-office

NAS and object storage servers

Cloud, wen and high-density

Server virtualization

Chapter 5: Advanced SAS Topics

The SAS Physical Layer

Choosing SAS Cabling

Using SAS Switch Zoning

SAS HBA Target Mode

Chapter 6: Nine Common Questions

Can You Interconnect Switches?

What Is SAS Cable Distance?

How Many Servers Can Be In a SAS SAN?

How Do You Manage SAS Zones?

How Do You Configure SAS for HA?

How Does SAS Zoning Compare to LUN Mapping?

Who Has SAS Solutions?

How Do SAS SANs Compare?

Where Can You Learn More?

Chapter 7: Next Steps

SAS Going Forward

Next Steps

Great Take Away’s

Regardless of if you are looking to use SAS as a primary SAN interface, or leverage it for DAS or implementingback-end storage for big-data, NAS, object, cloud or other types of scalable storage solutions, check out and getyour free copy of SAS SANs for Dummies here compliments of LSI.

Click here to ask your free copy of SAS SANs for Dummies complimentsof LSI, tell them Greg from StorageIO sent you and enjoy the book.

Ok, nuff said.

Cheers Gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRCPress, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), andResilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)

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