In my previous articles in this series, I shared some hardware options to help you build an inexpensive iSCSI target and went over your Windows software options for enabling this functionality. In ...

I'm trying to share an iSCSI target which is backed by a file on a read-only file system on CentOS. This seems straightforward to me, but I have very little iSCSI experience. I'm trying to mount the ...

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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 ...

Studying for certification exams can be an adventure. Even more so when the certification exam is a hands-on, performance-based exam. The quandry most people I know fall into, is that to effectively ...

I’ve written many posts about my adventures in virtualized server building and management over the past couple of years. Mostly to document what I’ve learned and to see what others are doing. Things ...

Storage Area Networks (SANs) are becoming commonplace in the industry. Once restricted to large data centers and Fortune 100 companies, this technology has dropped in price to the point that small ...

I've no experience with iscsi. In fibre channel I've used multipathd to manage redundant HBA's. I've used Ethernet bonding to manage redundant network cards. Suppose I have two network cards attached ...

As iSCSI continues to find its niche in storage environments, users have a raft of choices when it comes to methods of deploying iSCSI storage area networks (San), from prepackaged offerings by legacy ...