The 50 Best System Administration Books of 2024

Top 50 Free System Administration Books - April 2024

HCLL System Administration Survival Guide Tyler Snook (2012)

Learn the ropes of HCLL system administration from a seasoned expert.  Covers topics including the role of the system adm...

IBM Real Time Compression Appliance Application Integration Guide IBM Redbooks (2012)

Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® is introducing the IBM Real-tim...

IBM SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster with PowerVM and PowerHA IBM Redbooks (2013)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM Storage Area Network and IBM SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster solution wh...

IBM Information Infrastructure Solutions Handbook IBM Redbooks (2010)

An information infrastructure is comprised of software, servers, storage, and networks, integrated and optimized to deliver timely...

IBM DS8870 and VMware Synergy IBM Redbooks (2013)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the support of the IBM System Storage® DS8870 for VMware vSphere in general terms. It al...

IBM System Storage DS5000 Series Implementation and Best Practices Guide IBM Redbooks (2012)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication represents a compilation of best practices for deploying and configuring the IBM System Storage® D...

IBM Virtual Disk System Quickstart Guide Sangam Racherla, Jure Arzensek, Jamal Boudi, Dharmesh Kamdar & Van Tran (2010)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a quickstart guide for implementing an IBM virtual disk system. We use the term IBM virtual dis...

IBM System Storage DS8000 Copy Services Scope Management and Resource Groups IBM Redbooks (2013)

The IBM® System Storage® DS8000® offers a policy-based resource management capability. This capability, named resource groups or C...

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 Replication Family S... Jon Tate, Rafael Vilela Dias, Ivaylo Dikanarov, Jim Kelly & Peter Mescher (2017)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the new features that have been added with the release of the IBM System Storage® SAN Vo...

Data Migration to IBM Disk Storage Systems Chris Seiwert, Peter Klee, Lisa Martinez, Max Pei, Mladen Portak, Alex Safonov, Edgar Strubel, Gabor Szabo & Ron Verbeek (2012)

Data migration has become a mandatory and regular activity for most data centers. Companies need to migrate data not only when tec...

Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2 Jon Tate, Morten Dannemand, Nancy Kinney, Massimo Rosati & Lev Sturmer (2016)

Data is the new currency of business, the most critical asset of the modern organization. In fact, enterprises that can gain busin...

Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Disk System IBM Redbooks (2014)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000 Unified Disk System, a virtualized storage system that consolid...

Cisco MDS 9396S 16G Multilayer Fabric Switch for IBM System Storage IBM Redbooks (2015)

This IBM® Redbooks® Product Guide describes the Cisco MDS 9396S 16G Multilayer Fabric Switch for IBM System Storage®. The Cisco MD...

Using XIV in OpenStack Environments IBM Redbooks (2015)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides a brief overview of OpenStack and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack. It focuses on the use...

Migration Use Cases with the Migration Manager IBM Redbooks (2011)

The Migration Manager enables you to migrate configuration content from one production environment to another. The typical use is ...

Implementing IBM Spectrum Scale Dino Quintero, Puneet Chaudhary, Brian Herr, Steven Normann, Marcelo Ramos, Richard Rosenthal, Robert Simon, Marian Tomescu & Richard Wale (2015)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes IBM Spectrum™ Scale, which is a scalable, high-performance data and file management solu...

IBM Midrange System Storage Implementation and Best Practices Guide IBM Redbooks (2010)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication represents a compilation of best practices for deploying and configuring IBM Midrange System Stora...

N series SnapMirror Async Guide Alex Osuna, Srinath Alapati, Kyle Burrell & Larry Touchette (2011)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents an overview of implementing N series SnapMirror Async technology, with step-by-step confi...

IBM System Storage N series with VMware vSphere 5 IBM Redbooks (2013)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a basic introduction to the IBM System Storage® N series, virtualization, and VMware 5.x....

Taming the Terminal Bart Busschots (2020)

Taming the Terminal is specifically targeted at learning the macOS Terminal but most of the content is applicable to the Linux com...

Tivoli Integration Scenarios IBM Redbooks (2011)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a broad view of how Tivoli® system management products work together in several common sc...

IBM System Storage Open Systems Tape Encryption Solutions IBM Redbooks (2010)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses IBM System Storage Open Systems Tape Encryption solutions. It specifically describes Tiv...

IT Service Management Best Practices Using IBM SmartCloud Control Desk IBM Redbooks (2013)

SmartCloud Control Desk is a comprehensive IT Asset and Service Management solution that helps reduce cost and minimize service di...

LDAP Authentication for IBM DS8000 Storage IBM Redbooks (2014)

The IBM® DS8000® series includes the option to replace the locally based user ID and password administration with a centralized di...

VMware Implementation with IBM System Storage DS5000 IBM Redbooks (2012)

In this IBM® Redpaper™, we compiled best practices for planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining IBM Midrange storage sol...

IBM XIV Storage System Architecture and Implementation Bertrand Dufrasne, Roger Eriksson, Lisa Martinez & Wenzel Kalabza s (2017)

Not a new version - included warning for self signed X509 certificates - see section 5.2 This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes...

The Ultimate Guide to G Suite Matthew Guay (2017)

Your business needs professional email, with your .com at the end of your addresses. That doesn't mean you need to run a serv...

IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide IBM Redbooks (2014)

IBM® Flex System™ products are ideally suited for data center environments that require flexible, cost-effective, secure, and ener...

IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager Copy Services Guide IBM Redbooks (2011)

The purpose of this IBM® Redbooks® publication is to provide customers with guidance and recommendations for how and when to use t...

A Deployment Guide for Elastic Storage Object IBM Redbooks (2014)

Due to the explosion of unstructured data generated by individuals and organizations, a new storage paradigm called "Object S...

IBM FlashSystem V9000 and VMware Best Practices Guide Rawley Burbridge, Matt Levan, Dusan Telekjak, James Thompson, Axel Westphal & Karen Orlando (2015)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes best practices for deploying IBM FlashSystem™ V9000 enterprise storage system in a VMwar...

IBM DS8870 Easy Tier Heat Map Transfer IBM Redbooks (2015)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the concepts, functions, and practical usage of IBM Easy Tier® Heat Map Transfer (HMT). ...

IBM System Storage DS8700 Architecture and Implementation IBM Redbooks (2010)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM System Storage® DS8700 storage...

IBM System Storage N series Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments IBM Redbooks (2014)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides deployment guidelines, workload estimates, and preferred practices for clients who want a...

N series Data Motion Alex Osuna, Larry Touchette, Roger Weeks & Preetom Goswami (2010)

As customers and service providers begin to consolidate more and more applications and workloads onto shared storage infrastructur...

IBM System Storage N series Clustered Data ONTAP IBM Redbooks (2014)

IBM® System Storage® N series storage systems offer an excellent solution for a broad range of deployment scenarios. IBM System St...

IBM Flex System and PureFlex System Network Implementation with Juniper Networks IBM Redbooks (2013)

To meet today's complex and ever-changing business demands, you need a solid foundation of server, storage, networking and so...

Using the IBM System Storage N series with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager IBM Redbooks (2010)

IBM®, as a result of its recent product introduction of the IBM System Storage™ N series, has become more tightly integrated with ...

Harnessing the Power of ProtecTIER and Tivoli Storage Manager IBM Redbooks (2014)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication will help you install, tailor, and configure IBM ProtecTIER® products with IBM Tivoli® Storage Man...

Configuring VMware Virtual Volumes for Systems Powered by IBM Spectrum Virtualiz... Adam Reid, Jacob Winch, Warren Hawkins & Jon Tate (2016)

IBM® Spectrum Virtualize and VMware's Virtual Volumes (VVols) are paving the way toward a true IBM Software Defined Environme...

HP Storage Media Tape Talk Newsletter 60th Anniversary Edition 2012 Andrew Dodd (2012)

The HP Tape Talk newsletter is your first and best resource for keeping up to date with all the latest news and trends in the worl...

IBM SAN and SVC Stretched Cluster and VMware Solution Implementation IBM Redbooks (2013)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM Storage Area Network and IBM SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster solution wh...

DFSMShsm Fast Replication Technical Guide IBM Redbooks (2015)

DFSMShsm fast replication provides DFSMShsm management for the use of volume-level fast replication. Fast replication is made poss...

Implementing the IBM Storwize V3700 Jon Tate, Adam Lyon-Jones, Lee Sirett, Chris Tapsell & Paulo Tomiyoshi Takeda (2016)

Organizations of all sizes are faced with the challenge of managing massive volumes of increasingly valuable data. However, storin...

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Beyond the Basics Karen Orlando, Robin Badart, Andy Benbenek, Tiberiu Hajas, Dave Remkus & Christian Sonder (2017)

You have installed and performed the basic customization of IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center. You have collected performan...

IBM System Storage Data Encryption IBM Redbooks (2010)

Strong security is not a luxury anymore in today's round-the-clock, global business environment. It is a requirement. Ensurin...

SAN Boot Implementation and Best Practices Guide for IBM System Storage Sangam Racherla, Delmar Demarchi, Scott Dybas, Bobby Stark & Mansoor Syed (2012)

Booting servers from a storage area network (SAN) is being used increasingly in complex data center environments today, due to its...

IBM Linear Tape File System Installation and Configuration IBM Redbooks (2013)

The IBM® Linear Tape File System™ (LTFS) is the first file system that works in conjunction with Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape techn...

IBM System Storage N series and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices IBM Redbooks (2010)

IBM® System Storage® N series technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the benefits of adva...

Big Data Networked Storage Solution for Hadoop IBM Redbooks (2013)

This IBM® Redpaper™ provides a reference architecture, based on Apache Hadoop, to help businesses gain control over their data, me...

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