All about ISCSI Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Eric Newbauer There has been much discussion and a good dose of confusion about the term ISCSI. This relatively new protocol for storage technology offers many ...

On your host, you should have at least two NICs dedicated solely to iSCSI traffic. You add those NICs to a single vSwitch much in the same way you configure other vSphere networking teams.

Unless you use some type of round-robin load balancing policy, LACP isn't going to do much for you unless there are multiple traffic flows. Most iSCSI targets will support multipathing at the ...

Make sure to choose the switches used for an iSCSI storage network carefully. Some vendors sell switches that perform well with a normal network load but bog down with iSCSI traffic due to the ...

One means of improving iSCSI traffic performance is to include TOE (TCI/IP Offload Engine) capability on the Ethernet card itself. An iSCSI TOE allows the network adapter to process iSCSI traffic ...

Let's say the iSCSI LAN at main site is on 172.16.100.0/24 and the production LAN at the remote site is on 192.168.1.0/24 - what are you suggesting for the iSCSI at the remote site?

• The use of the TCP protocol makes iSCSI traffic susceptible to TCP slow-start mechanism because TCP cannot differentiate between data and storage traffic. iSCSI can leverage switching ...

ISCSI is most often implemented as a software component on a server. It allows administrators to move the storage of small departmental servers to SANs for easy management and scalability.

In a 10-Gbit iSCSI implementation, the sheer throughput of TCP/IP and iSCSI traffic is beyond the ability of most microprocessors to handle effectively. Therefore, it is desirable to perform iSCSI ...

Then he discovered that replacing the aging FC700 with a 1.5TB system would cost more than $90,000, while a 2.5TB iSCSI-based PS Series system from EqualLogic Inc. in Nashua, N.H., would cost just ...

Adaptec claims the ASA-7211 iSCSI initiator card can deliver 130Mbytes/second full duplex bandwidth of iSCSI traffic while using less than 20 percent of a 1GHz host CPU. The 64-bit 66MHz PCI card has ...

An iSCSI TOE allows the network adapter to process iSCSI traffic (often all Ethernet LAN traffic) locally -- relieving those burdensome processing tasks from the host server or other computers ...