New guy learning SANs

odysseyelite

I'm interested in learning the foundation of a storage network. I'm currently on a new project in an enterprise enviroment and work closely with the Storage group asking for luns for my esxi host. Is there a good book and cbt videos that goes over the basis? One of the vendors told me about this book, but its from 2001.

Building Storage Networks
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Storage-Networks-Mark-Farley/dp/0072130725/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328219585&sr=8-1


I'm looking to understand how it all comes together so when the storage guys speak to me I can follow along. At some point down the road I might want to get into that area. We are using brocade CNAs in dell chassis with fiber channel.

JDMurray

Cisco does a lot of stuff with storage networking: Storage Networking - CCIE - Cisco Systems

steve13ad

There's always Comptia's Storage+. Since it's still pretty new, study material might be hard to come by.

Storage+

onesaint

Tom Clark was called a SAN evangelist, some of his work can be found here on Amazon. Also, I'm not sure how long this will last for, but try this link to Safari books. I just searched for "storage networking," then searched again within those results for "networking."

odysseyelite

Ok thanks.

I was thinking about getting tom clark's Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition).

I think I will also pick up EMC's Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information.

QHalo

Check out IBM Redbooks stuff too.