My organization is slowly migrating our Physical servers to virtual servers running ESXi. I currently have a single ESX server running 6 virtual machines. We are contemplating going to a SAN to store ...

But what can iSCSI do for you? How about letting you go to CompUSA, buy three USB floppy disk drives, hang them off a Linux server and configure them into a RAID array from a Windows 2000 Server over ...

I have experimented with using FreeNAS as an iSCSI host and performance is pretty terrible. It is reliable and works well except for the speed, which is horrendous. I have a SuperMicro server with a ...

Are you sick of hearing about the future of iSCSI and all the glowing predictions of what it will bring? Well, so are we. For every one article we’ve written on iSCSI over the past three years, we’ve ...

Where is iSCSI headed? Good question. A recent blogstorm with posts from well-known names at EMC, EqualLogic, and NetApp among others leaves the answer in doubt. True, shipments of iSCSI gear continue ...

An emerging storage protocol, supported by industry heavyweights like IBM Corp, Cisco Systems Inc., and EMC Corp., promises to make SANs (storage area networks) available to small- and medium-size ...

With iSCSI making major inroads into the enterprise environment, more CIOs and storage administrators are considering this lower-cost technology to help facilitate a move to a centralized storage ...

There is a lot of debate about Fibre Channel over Ethernet and converged network adapters. A CNA is a 10-GbE network interface card that supports multiple data networking protocols, basically TCP/IP ...

The main points to consider when choosing between Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel boil down to two things: cost and performance. "Typically, the trade-off we see people making is between the ...

Over the next several entries we are going to explore several of the protocols that are available to IT managers as they try to select a protocol for use in their environments. First up is iSCSI. The ...

I've written a lot about iSCSI in thesestorage columns, and I believe it to have a very bright future, especiallywith 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisitioncosts ...

“It&'s like Fibre Channel when it first started,” said Michael Fanelli, western regional manager at SSI hubcity, a Metuchen, N.J., solution provider. “It languished a year, then it ...