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 ...

Tom follows up on his previous article about installing FreeNAS and using it to create an NFS share to back a VM, now creating an iSCSI target on FreeNAS and using that target as backing for a vSphere ...

Debates continue to rage over whether or not the "Year of iSCSI" has officially arrived, but one thing is for certain, there are more iSCSI products, more iSCSI accessory devices and more approaches ...

During a recent visit to QNAP here in Taiwan, one thing that popped up in conversation was why home users would need iSCSI. Admittedly my ignorance for iSCSI showed at this point - I'd never paid it ...

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 ...

Last year, Microsoft released version 2.0 of its free iSCSI initiator package, the software that allows Windows servers to make use of inexpensive iSCSI storage arrays by mounting remote volumes that ...

I have a pair of Cisco Nexus 5548 that have 2248G FEXes in each rack. The SAN (in this case an HP P2000) is in the same rack as the pair of 5548s, and so are the servers that will be talking to it via ...

With the advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, iSCSI is now a more viable protocol than ever for connecting pools of storage to large virtual server and desktop environments. Where previously administrators ...

We have a remote site and a primary site. At our primary site we have a firewall (Palo Alto) which has a 20mbps VPN tunnel to a Juniper SSG at our remote site. All traffic (including internet) from ...