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| Sales Rank: | 2068886 (lower is better) |
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| Label: | Prentice Hall PTR |
| Pages: | 103 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 1999-08-24 |
| Published By: | Prentice Hall PTR |
| ASIN: | 0130163066 |
| Category: | Book |
In her examples, Kobert explicitly covers Sun Ultra 2 workstations, Enterprise 4000 and 5000 servers, A5000 subsystems, and UniPack and MultiPack storage systems. Additionally, the procedures apply to Enterprise 250, 450, 3000, and 6000 servers and all hot-swappable StorEdge products. This book shows how to mirror the system disk (using both Solstice DiskSuite and Enterprise Volume Manager). It shows how to make a system fail over to a mirror of the system disk when there's trouble, and details how to anticipate, detect, and recover from disk failures.
The book leaves little to the imagination, presenting critical information clearly and succinctly. It's easy to follow the author's explicit procedures, which are backed up with screen dumps that show commands and their output. Because of its liberal use of machine input and output, this book is great for studying in advance of "major surgery"--operators will know what to expect from their machines and won't waste time figuring out what output means. --David Wall
Topics covered: System disk mirroring, failure detection and recovery, hot swapping of the system disk, MultiPack and UniPack configuration, and alternate boot paths.
I was disappointed - this book seems very simple minded - yet lacking a lot of important and relevant information.;
"If you want to do it the way we do it, here's how..." is the entire conceptual approach to the title. The text does say it's a "cookbook" in its intro, but [$$$] is a lot to ask for that. I expect anyone who wants to make money on their field notes will offer more than "consult the documentation for more" advice on realted subjects. The author doesn't even offer an overview for the tools or hardware shown. You might as well print a list of hyperlinks and ask [$$$]for it.
I'd like to see Sun encourage all their employees to follow the likes of Brian Wong or Adrian Cockroft or Peter van der Linden, and write treatments with real depth if they're going to write them at all. Leave the hacking to others. Anyone can publish rough-draft field notes -- why put Sun's name on that?
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