I am in the process of a huge infrastrucure change and large purchase of a NetApp 2050 (20 300GB SAS, CIFS, iSCSI, (NFS option?)). The goal is to virtualize approx 8 servers on two IBM 3650's with ...

Thought I'd ask the collective mind to see if anyone has experience. We are planning on getting a couple of new Netapp's to replace the existing ones, which are currently presenting storage to ESXi ...

Over the last several weeks, I’ve delved into forgotten aspects of building an IP storage network and how to best leverage it with both NFS and iSCSI — the two dominant IP storage protocols used in ...

As simple as iSCSI is to get running, configuring it to perform optimally requires a solid knowledge of how it actually works Over the past two weeks, I’ve written about some of the commonly ...

In a previous article, I showed you how to set up and use Ubuntu as a Network File System (NFS) server and use it to store virtual machines (VMs) from a vSphere environment. In this article, I'll go a ...

But iSCSI SANs are finding favor among businesses of varying sizes that resisted shared storage because of Fibre Channel's cost and complexity. These iSCSI SANs are especially popular for working with ...

Many technologies originally intended for the enterprise end up trickling down into the consumer market at some point. Some of these technologies (ethernet or virtualization, for instance) are more ...

NFS and iSCSI are no different. Both have strengths and weaknesses depending on the situation. But the future of storage — which will make geographically diverse storage clustering a reality — may ...

NFS is a high-performance file-sharing protocol in the same vein as SMB/CIFS, while iSCSI is a block-level storage protocol more akin to Fibre Channel in that it encapsulates raw SCSI commands. This ...