SAN Book at 99%

Wow! What a year this has been.

At the beginning of February I was working on a few projects. Then Harry Brelsford gets me engaged in Amsterdam and New York conferences. (Still earlybird deals available for SMB Nation New York! May 5-6.)

Then Harry agrees to publish my next book -- tentatively entitled the The SMB SAN Primer. We borrowed some equipment from QLogic. Very cool.

Now, the book is pretty much done. We're doing all the boring "production" stuff like proof reading and layout.

Anyway, I finished in time to go on a date with my wife! And that's a good thing since today is our 15th wedding anniversary. Wow, what a year.

There might be small changes in the book, but here a sneek peek at the table of contents:

Section One: SMB SAN Defined

Chapter 1: New Technology Frontiers In SMB
- - Introduction
- - Who's Who - Defining Small and Medium Business
- - Summary
- - FAQ: Nine Quick Questions

Chapter 2: What Is A SAN?
- - The Basics: What is A SAN?
- - Putting Storage in Perspective
- - What is NOT a SAN?
- - Alright Already! What is a SAN?
- - Introduction to Architecture and Designing Your SAN
- - Summary
- - FAQ: Nine Quick Questions

Section Two: SMB SAN Specifics

Chapter 3: SMB SAN Planning, Design and Analysis
- - Introduction
- - Discovery and Inventory
- - Building a Plan
- - Dealing with Objections
- - Getting Approval for the Project
- - Budgeting, Adjusting, and Final Draft
- - Summary
- - FAQ: Nine Quick Questions

Chapter 4: SMB SAN Deployment
- - Introduction
- - The Physical Construction of a SAN
- - Building SAN One: A Fibre Drive
- - Case Study: How Not to Build a SAN
- - Detour: More Detail on Protocols and Hardware
- - Using the SAN Software: Step by Step Out of the Box
- - More Complicated Scenarios
- - Focus on RAID
- - Summary
- - FAQ: Nine Quick Questions

Chapter 5: SMB SAN Administration and Troubleshooting
- - Introduction
- - Job One: Documentation
- - Maintenance Tasks
- - More Mundane Maintenance
- - Troubleshooting Basics
- - Summary
- - FAQ: Nine Quick Questions

Chapter 6: Extending The SMB SAN
- - Introduction
- - Learn it. Use it. Manage it. (Sell it.)
- - Really Great Uses for A SAN
- - Summary
- - FAQ: Nine Quick Questions

Section Three: SMB SAN Success Stories

Introductory Comments

Chapter 7: Medium Space SAN Success: St. Mary's
- - Introduction
- - Case Study Overview
- - Background
- - SAN Solution Gets An "A" for Scalability
- - From Minor Investment to Major Performance
- - Summary

Chapter 8: Small Space SAN Success: SMB Nation TV
- - Introduction
- - Small five-person business uses SAN to manage
- - Summary

Chapter 9: More SMB SAN Success Stories
- - Introduction
- - Five other SMB clients featured, one-page each
- - Summary

Section Four: Conclusions

Chapter 10: Bringing It All Together
- - Where We Came From and Where We're Going
- - Next Steps

Appendix A: Resources

Appendix B: Glossary