Quick question :-) about vSphere 4.1 ESXi, dVS, and iSCSI. I've got two 10 gig NICs per host that I use for iSCSI. I'm using a single dVS for iSCSI. It's currently setup with both p-nics using a ...

On ESX 3, performance and convenience-wise I prefer NFS. On vSphere/4 it matters a little less (performance is less of an issue).<BR><BR>I've done FC and iscsi, and iSCSI does pretty well.

Figure 10. The iSCSI-backed datastore. Wrapping Up I have set up iSCSI targets on Linux in the past, but I found that using tgt to do so significantly streamlined and simplified the process.

In this article I will discuss what it takes to set up an iSCSI target using both the GUI (Server Manager) and PowerShell and then adding it to my ESXi server. One thing to remember in the parlance of ...

Despite a theoretical upper limit of up to 6,400 VMs on 64 vSphere/VSAN nodes, the new iSCSI capability is intended for smaller use cases. “If you want to run a lot of physical servers, a SAN is ...

If you want to encrypt the iSCSI traffic – the ultimate and best protection from snooping – you can implement IPSec for the iSCSI traffic. This is a good article about that practice.

Storage virtualization and iSCSI storage specialist StarWind Software announced the release of StarWind 5.4, an iSCSI SAN software platform, which is designed to turn an industry-standard x86 or ...