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Tuning Netfinity Servers for Performance: Getting the Most Out of Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0
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Author: David Watts, Gregg McKnight, Peter Mitura, Chris Neophytou, Murat Gulver
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130406120
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (09 August, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 539,913
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Excellent For All Interested In Intel Platforms
What makes this book truly special, besides the fact that it is so easy to read and understand that people with little knowledge will find it accessible, is that this book goes in depth into the ins and outs of the hardware in Intel based systems without limiting itself to being marketing hype. Yes, the examples used are laced around the Netfinity, now rebranded xSeries, servers from IBM. However, people who work with Compaq or Dell or whitebox servers will also find this work useful, because SCSI is SCSI no matter whose box it is in, and the same is true of PCI, Intel Pentium CPUs, and all other industry standard hardware.For the most part, all Intel servers will interact with software in the same basic ways. Since this is true, the performance tuning techniques listed in this book range beyond the Netfinity servers of the book's title. The same is also true of the application tuning information listed in the appendices.
There's a new version of this book expected out 4/02, and it will cover Linux and Netware, as well as Windows, and go into newer hardware that was unavailable, or not in use for IBM xSeries servers, at the time this first book was written. Buy it, you won't be disappointed, and you are bound to learn quite a bit, even if you are a seasoned pro!
Rating: 4 out of 5
What a wonderful bookˇI
If you're using IBM Netfinity or xSeries Servers, this is the only wisest choice. And if you're using Microsoft NT or 2000, it'll be the excellent one as your reference.There are 10-50 IBM Netfinity Servers in my company and my job is to ensure them work normally, includes tuning and getting the most performance. If your job is to ensure your NT/2000 to work more smooth, you must try it and you'll get the most from it.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Great Book!
This is one of the good books for Test engineers and QA people or anybody who is trying to learn more about Performance Testing. It is a must buy for an IT professional who works on this kind of stuff.
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