Windows Servers come with a built-in feature called the iSCSI Target Server Role. This role enables the Windows server to act as a centralized storage provider, so we will enable this role. Here’s how ...

Windows Server includes a built-in iSCSI (short for Internet Small Computer System Interface) initiator that it can use to connect to an iSCSI target. In order to connect to such a target, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft today released an addition for Windows Server 2008 R2 that enables shared block storage in storage area networks using the iSCSI Protocol. The new Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 is the ...

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 ...

How do I… Install, configure, and use Microsoft’s iSCSI initiator? Your email has been sent This blog post is also available as a TechRepublic download in PDF ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm coming from an environment where I worked with some decent SAN/NAS devices hosting 100+ VMs. I started with a Pillar system before they were re-acquired by Oracle (company was started by Ellison I ...