I recommend to have this book on hand, as it has enough introductory information on a wide range of distances: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642309588
To the best of my knowledge, the "symmetric" Hausdorff distance between sets A and B is simply the maximum of the usual, directed (asymmetric) Hausdorff distances from A to B and from B to A. You can read up on this e.g. here: