The Wasabi Storage Builder series of software is built on the NetBSD kernel and is flash copied onto a disk-on-module device that plugs into an IDE slot on a server motherboard. After the device is ...

There has been much discussion and a good dose of confusion about the term ISCSI. This relatively new protocol for storage technology offers many compelling benefits, including solid performance and ...

Version 2.0 of Microsoft Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) software initiator will be ready for download by mid-April. Foremost among the enhancements is a multipath I/O feature ...

I'm playing around with iSCSI for backups. I've set up a successful Windows Backup over iSCSI to a Linux LIO target to provide networked backups to non-pro Windows clients on my LAN (Windows 7 Home ...

Last week another third-party vendor demonstrated that it was still supporting NetWare – that’s always good news! At last week’s Storage Networking World meeting in Orlando, Wasabi Systems launched ...

Tom shows how to set up an iSCSI target using both the GUI (Server Manager) and PowerShell, and then adding it to his ESXi server. When setting up a new VMware Horizon environment, I needed someplace ...

Over the past several years, storage-hungry applications such as e-commerce, data warehousing and online multimedia have placed enormous demands on computing infrastructures, not only from a network ...

Anyone who has considered crossing the bridge from DAS to a SAN has faced a fundamental choice between two technologies: the established, but pricey FC (Fibre Channel) and the more affordable but ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

Where is iSCSI headed? Good question. A recent blogstorm with posts from well-known names at EMC, EqualLogic, and NetApp among others leaves the answer in doubt. True, shipments of iSCSI gear continue ...