Description
Book SynopsisHard drives and disk management receive scant attention from the industry press, yet recent surveys have identified disk failure as the #1 source of server downtime. Combine this fact with the skyrocketing TCO of data storage management, and it is apparent that server disk management is a subject deserving of much more scrutiny.
Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment explains the basic elements of disks and disk architectures, and explores how to successfully manage and maintain functionality within a Windows environment. The author focuses on critical issues that are often ignored by other books on this subject, issues including disk quotas, fragmentation, optimization, hard drive reliability, asset management, software deployment, and system forensics.
This book is a valuable resource for IT veterans and those who are less tech-savvy. Students and IT newcomers can access multiple definitions and examples of fundamentals such as disk organization, file system
Table of Contents
Hard Disks and How They Are Organized. Windows File Systems. Hard Drive Reliability. Disk Management Basics for Windows 2000. Backing up Windows Networks. Disaster Recovery and Disk Management. Disk Performance and Fragmentation. Disk Optimization: Optimum or Not? Quotaing of Disks. Hard Disk Forensics: The Hard Disk as a Source of Evidence. Simplifying Disk Management for Storage Assets. Server Consolidation and Disk Management Simplification. Windows Past, Windows Present: Windows NT and Windows 2000. Windows Present: Windows XP. Windows Present/Future: .NET Server 2003, 64-bit Computing and Beyond. Asset Management for Server Hardware and Software. Software Deployment and Distribution on Windows Platforms. Your Disk and Disk Management Future.
