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John Sexton is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist, based in Auckland, New Zealand, and
has over 20 years of experience working in IT. He has worked at IBM for the last 13 years. His
areas of expertise include IBM System p, AIX, HACMP™, virtualization, storage, IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager, SAN, SVC, and business continuity. He provides pre-sales support and
technical services for clients throughout New Zealand, including consulting, solution
implementation, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, system migration, and training.
Prior to joining IBM in New Zealand, John worked in the United Kingdom supporting and
maintaining systems in the financial and advertising industries.
Alexander Watson is a Senior IT Specialist for Storage ATS Americas in the United States.
He is a Subject Matter Expert on SAN switches and DS4000 products. He has over ten years
of experience in planning, managing, designing, implementing, analyzing, and tuning of SAN
environments. He has worked at IBM for ten years. His areas of expertise include SAN fabric
networking, Open System Storage I/O, and the IBM Midrange Storage Subsystems family of
products.
The authors want to express their thanks to the following people, whose expertise and
support were integral to the writing of this book:
Jed Bless
Brian Steffler
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Shawn Andrews
Mark Brougher
Mark S. Fleming
Paul Goetz
Harsha Gunatilaka
Richard Hutzler
Doris Konieczny
Harold Pike
Scott Rainwater
Michael D Roll
Pete Urbisci
Bill Wilson
IBM
Brad Breault
Stacey Dershem
Ryan Leonard
Amanda Ryan
David Worley
LSI Corporation
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Bertrand Dufrasne
Ann Lund
Alex Osuna
Jon Tate
International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center
Thanks to the authors of the previous edition of this book.
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