Blueprints for High Availability: Designing Resilient Distributed Systems

Evan Marcus

ISBN 10: 0471356018 / ISBN 13: 9780471356011

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United States, New York, 2000

Reliability is not a quality that can simply be purchased, instead it needs to be engineered into a system or product. This text offers a guide to the assessment, design, implementation, and testing of a system for 100% reliability. The authors provide the reader with a series of practical blueprints, disciplines, and processes for assessing risks to a distributed system, assigning costs and selecting appropriate reliability levels, and designing and testing solutions without excessive downtime. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001979019

Synopsis:

"Rely on this book for information on the technologies and methods you′ll need to design and implement high–availability systems...It will help you transform the vision of always–on networks into a reality."–Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Novell Corporation
Your system will crash! The reason could be something as complex as network congestion or something as mundane as an operating system fault. The good news is that there are steps you can take to maximize your system availability and prevent serious downtime. This authoritative book will provide you with the tools to deploy a system with confidence. The authors guide you through the building of a network that runs with high availability, resiliency, and predictability. They clearly show you how to assess the elements of a system that can fail, select the appropriate level of reliability, and provide steps for designing, implementing, and testing your solution to reduce downtime to a minimum. All the while, they help you determine how much you can afford to spend by balancing costs and benefits. This book of practical, hands–on blueprints:
∗ Examines what can go wrong with the various components of your system
∗ Provides twenty key system design principles for attaining resilience and high availability
∗ Discusses how to arrange disks and disk arrays for protection against hardware failures
∗ Looks at failovers, the software that manages them, and sorts through the myriad of different failover configurations
∗ Provides techniques for improving network reliability and redundancy
∗ Reviews techniques for replicating data and applications to other systems across a network
∗ Offers guidance on application recovery
∗ Examines Disaster Recovery

About the Author: EVAN MARCUS is a Senior Systems Engineer at VERITAS Software Corporation and co–designed a key piece of the first commercial Sun–based software for High Availability. He has been the company′s consultant for successful implementations of VERITAS High Availability Products around the world.

HAL STERN is a Distinguished Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has led reliability and improvement teams for several financial services clients and focuses on performance, reliability, and networked system architecture. He is also the author of Managing NFS and NIS.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Blueprints for High Availability: Designing ...
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United States, New York
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good