All iSCSI access was at Layer-2, ignoring the “i” in iSCSI. This was a legacy decision driven by our storage teams who were convinced that any Layer-3 routing of iSCSI would severely impact ...

All I'm wanting is to see a benchmark to tell me is iSCSI is faster than traditional NAS and if so, by how much. I would think that block level access would be faster than file level access, I'm ...

On the initiator side, the server will “see” the iSCSI target as a SCSI device. No SCSI card is needed in the initiator, however; there is only a means to effectively gain access to the ...

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 ...

Over 13,000 iSCSI storage clusters are currently accessible via the internet after their respective owners forgot to enable authentication. This misconfiguration has the risk of causing serious ...

At the very least, I highly recommend that you limit access to iSCSI volumes based on both client IP address and a username/password, if you plan to use iSCSI in a production environment.

Therefore, for our lab setup to be useful, we will need access to a host with a configured iSCSI Target. Let's take a look at one way we can make this happen. The Environment In my lab setup, I have a ...

The six products I tested show the current spectrum of iSCSI solutions available on the market today. The Adaptec, Celeros, and Rasilient units represent the lower end in price and functionality ...

Johnson Memorial Hospital was able to save money, expand storage capacity and manage functions itself by replacing its SAN with EqualLogic's PeerStorage Array.

You can use the software-based Microsoft iSCSI “Initiator” which allows you to connect to a “Target” LUN on the SAN that will access many spindles for performance and redundancy.

SNS has released a free iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X users. You'll still need an iSCSI array (a high speed storage area networking system) to make use of it, though -- like SNS's globalSAN systems.