Table of Contents

Contents. Preface. About the Authors. Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: What to Measure. Chapter 3: The Value of Availability. Chapter 4: The Politics of Availability. Chapter 5: 20 Key High Availability Design Principles. Chapter 6: Backups and Restores. Chapter 7: Highly Available Data Management. Chapter 8: SAN, NAS, and Virtualization. Chapter 9: Networking. Chapter 10: Data Centers and the Local Environment. Chapter 11: People and Processes. Chapter 12: Clients and Consumers. Chapter 13: Application Design. Chapter 14: Data and Web Services. Chapter 15: Local Clustering and Failover. Chapter 16: Failover Management and Issues. Chapter 17: Failover Configurations. Chapter 18: Data Replication. Chapter 19: Virtual Machines and Resource Management. Chapter 20: The Disaster Recovery Plan. Chapter 21: A Resilient Enterprise. Chapter 22: A Brief Look Ahead. Chapter 23: Parting Shots. Index.

About the Author

EVAN MARCUS is a Principal Engineer for VERITAS Software. With more than twelve years of experience in the field of high availability, he is a frequent speaker at industry technical conferences. HAL STERN is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Services business unit of Sun Microsystems. He has worked on reliability and availability issues for some of the largest online trading and sports information sites as well as several network service providers.