Studying for certification exams can be an adventure. Even more so when the certification exam is a hands-on, performance-based exam. The quandry most people I know fall into, is that to effectively ...

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 ...

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 ...

iSCSI learning tip: It's a must to consider more than just cabling when designing an iSCSI-based storage network. Learn to look at the bigger picture when configuring or optimizing an iSCSI-based ...

I'm trying to share an iSCSI target which is backed by a file on a read-only file system on CentOS. This seems straightforward to me, but I have very little iSCSI experience. I'm trying to mount the ...

What all iscsi targets are you guys using on Linux? I need to configure one on a Centos box mainly for ESXi and testing Microsoft clusters. I want a target that supports SCSI-3 persistent reservations ...

We’ve all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now — and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS ...

There’s no such thing as a dedicated iSCSI switch because iSCSI storage traffic runs on Ethernet networks. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t have a discussion about iSCSI switches as there are ...

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 ...