System Administration: Most read books
VMware Cookbook
by Ryan Troy and Matthew Helmke
If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESX and ESXi, this book provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with these products in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics -- how to pool resources from hardware ser...
(2009)
3075 Reads
Backup & Recovery
Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of _Unix Backup & Recovery_ by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% ...
(2008)
1784 Reads
Using SANs and NAS
Help for Storage Administrators
Data is the lifeblood of modern business, and modern data centers have extremely demanding requirements for size, speed, and reliability. Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) allow organizations to manage and back up huge file systems quickly, thereb...
(2007)
1604 Reads
Windows® Internals, Part 1
by Alex Ionescu, Mark E. Russ..., and David A. Sol...
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals--and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by three renowned internals experts, this classic guide is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2--and now presents its coverage in two volumes. As always,...
(2012)
1557 Reads
Programming Internet Email
by David Wood
The Internet's "killer app" is not the World Wide Web or Push technologies: it is humble electronic mail. More people use email than any other Internet application. As the number of email users swells, and as email takes on an ever greater role in personal and business communi...
(2009)
1462 Reads
Windows 7 richtig admini...
by Thomas Bär and Frank Michae...
In den meisten Unternehmen ist nicht Vista, sondern erst Windows 7 der Nachfolger des altehrwürdigen Windows XP. Die beiden erfahrenen Praktiker und Fachautoren Thomas Bär und Frank-Michael Schlede zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie Windows 7 auf Unternehmens-PCs effizient, erfolgreich und...
(2010)
1397 Reads
Postfix: The Definitive ...
The Definitive Guide
by Kyle D. Dent
Postfix is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA): software that mail servers use to route email. Postfix is highly respected by experts for its secure design and tremendous reliability. And new users like it because it's so simple to configure. In fact, Postfix has been adopted as the d...
(2007)
1430 Reads
Praxishandbuch Speicherl...
Effektives Vorgehen bei Planung, Implementierung und Betrieb von Fibre-Channel-basierten Speicherumgebungen
by Roland Dölli..., Reinhard Legler, and Duc Thanh Bui
Das Buch spannt einen inhaltlichen Bogen um den typischen Ablauf eines Implementierungsprojekts - von der Bedarfsanalyse bis zum Betrieb der Speicherlösung. Neben bewährten Vorgehensweisen stellen Hinweise zu Fallstricken und häufigen Problemen im Projektmanagement den Kern de...
(2011)
1318 Reads
Windows® Sysinternals Ad...
by Mark E. Russ... and Aaron Margosis
Get in-depth guidance--and inside insights--for using the Windows Sysinternals tools available from Microsoft TechNet. Guided by Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich and Windows expert Aaron Margosis, you'll drill into the features and functions of dozens of free file, disk, ...
(2011)
1226 Reads
Windows® Internals, Part 2
by Mark E. Russ..., David A. Sol..., and Alex Ionescu
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals--and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by three renowned internals experts, this classic guide is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2--and now presents its coverage in two volumes. As always,...
(2012)
781 Reads
Clusterbau: Hochverfügba...
Von modernen IT-Diensten wird erwartet, dass sie ohne wahrnehmbare Ausfallzeit kontinuierlich zur Verfugung stehen. Wie Systemadministratoren dies mit Hilfe des leistungsfahigen Systems aus pacemaker und corosync erreichen konnen, zeigt Clusterprofi Michael Schwartzkopff in di...
(2012)
931 Reads
Outlook Pocket Guide
by Walter Glenn
Any Outlook power user knows that Microsoft Outlook ® is more than just an email program: it's a suite of organizational tools that can help you manage your schedule, contacts, and deadlines with remarkable efficiency. Outlook contains such a wealth of features that even the m...
(2003)
665 Reads
Test-Driven Infrastructu...
_Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef_ demonstrates a radical approach to developing web infrastructure that combines the powerful Chef configuration management framework with Cucumber, the leading Behavior-driven development (BDD) tool. Learn how to deliver real business valu...
(2011)
548 Reads
sendmail Kochbuch
Die Stichwörter sendmail-Konfiguration versetzen Systemadministratoren häufig in Angst und Schrecken, und das nicht ohne Grund. Die sendmail- Konfigurationssprachen sind genauso komplex wie alle anderen Programmiersprachen, werden aber viel seltener benutzt als diese...
(2004)
469 Reads
Samba 3 für Unix/Linux-A...
Konfiguration und Betrieb von Samba-Servern
by Volker Lendecke, Karolin Seeger, Björn Jacke, and Michael Adam
Volker Lendecke und seine Koautoren - allesamt aktive Mitglieder des Samba- Entwicklerteams - liefern mit ihrem bewährten Buch eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die Windows-Netzwerkprotokolle und deren Anwendung bei der Verbindung von Unix- und Windows-Systemen. Administrat...
(2012)
602 Reads
Managing Infrastructure ...
by James Loope
Get started with Puppet, and learn how this popular configuration management framework helps you automate your servers. This concise introduction shows you how to use Puppet's tools and templates to organize and execute configuration plans on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. ...
(2011)
317 Reads
JBoss AS 7 Configuration...
You will be guided through setting up a JBoss application server in a logical order, with plenty of screenshots and practical instructions to help.Java system administrators, developers, and application testers will benefit from this book. The brand new features in AS 7 mean t...
(2011)
442 Reads
Assessing Network Security
by Kevin Lam, David LeBlanc, and Ben Smith
Don’t wait for an attacker to find and exploit your security vulnerabilities—take the lead by assessing the state of your network’s security. This book delivers advanced network testing strategies, including vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, from members of the M...
(2009)
209 Reads
Deploying Microsoft® For...
by Yuri Diogenes and Dr. Thomas W...
Plan, design, and deploy Forefront United Access (UAG) with insights straight from the Forefront team at Microsoft. Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)--the evolution of the Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG)--delivers a more robust and transparent solution for...
(2010)
192 Reads
DNS and BIND on IPv6
by Cricket Liu
If you're preparing to roll out IPv6 on your network, this concise book provides the essentials you need to support this protocol with DNS. You'll learn how DNS was extended to accommodate IPv6 addresses, and how you can configure a BIND name server to run on the network. This...
(2011)
191 Reads

