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Title: IP SANS: An Introduction to iSCSI, iFCP, and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks by Thomas Clark, Tom Clark ISBN: 0-201-75277-8 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Good resource on IP storage
Comment: IP SANs is still a good reference on IP storage protocols and applications. The description of iSCSI and other protocols is still current, although evidently this book was written before final standardization by the IETF. This book is primarily about IP SANs, not Fibre Channel. For more current information on Fibre Channel technology, I found Clark's Designing Storage Area Networks Second Edition to be a useful and objective reference.

Rating: 1
Summary: Needs an update & objectivity
Comment: First off, Tom Clark's "Designing Storage Area Networks" is one of my favorite FC books. Its thorough and gives you a solid understanding of FC. Even with all the recent updates in FC, its still a good reference book.

But this book is already out of date. Most of the comparisons made between FC and IP are inaccurate (no mention of 2 Gb FC, necessity of IP HBAs) or avoid serious corporate considerations like technology availability, maturity, and cost. I hate to say it, but large portions of this book read like a product brochure (Mr. Clark is Director of Tech Marketing for Nishan Systems and he plugs them & iFCP often). If you're looking to understand IP SANs and where they will fit in your environment, This isn't it. An update may help, but it would probably be better if this book got to the brass tacks of IP SANs and avoided FC comparisons. One last point: backups aren't low priority (streaming media doesn't like intermittent data flow & data protection is high priority).

Rating: 5
Summary: Very good for engineers!
Comment: Clear explanation about the RAID, SCSI, FC and IP relations. Very good book. I found it very helpful.

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