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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent testing shows that combining SMB, NFS, and iSCSI protocols in NAS setups can optimize performance for different operating systems and workloads. While PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives offer extreme speeds, ...

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 ...

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 ...