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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was curious how well the drive would perform when I ran both an iSCSI and NFS CrystalDiskMark on the VMs that were on the TNAS simultaneously. The test reported that the NFS performed slightly ...

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 ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 20 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — QNAP Systems, Inc., a leadingmanufacturer of world class Network-Attached Storage (NAS) servers, NetworkVideo Recorders (NVR), and Network Multimedia Player ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...