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 ...

But what can iSCSI do for you? How about letting you go to CompUSA, buy three USB floppy disk drives, hang them off a Linux server and configure them into a RAID array from a Windows 2000 Server over ...

Ever wish you could boot servers directly from your IP network instead of having to call someone to do it manually? Cisco Systems answered that call with the release of “Network Boot” – a new feature ...

Granada Television installed Studio Network Solutions’ SANmp multi-platform, volume-sharing software in 10 of its editing suites at its Bristol, UK, location. There has been much discussion (and a ...

Storage administrators have a number of possible options when looking to secure NAS and iSCSI IP-enabled storage devices, and deployment scenarios are a key factor in choosing the appropriate methods.

With iSCSI making major inroads into the enterprise environment, more CIOs and storage administrators are considering this lower-cost technology to help facilitate a move to a centralized storage ...

There has been much discussion and a good dose of confusion about the term ISCSI. This relatively new protocol for storage technology offers many compelling benefits, including solid performance and ...

ISCSI is a standard protocol for running block-level SCSI commands over an IP network. Storage managers can use iSCSI as a low-cost way of consolidating and pooling storage into storage-area networks ...

Configuring a datacenter network is extremely complicated. If you’re not a network engineer it’s real easy to get yourself into trouble by slapping things together (note: I am not a network engineer).

I have a pair of Cisco Nexus 5548 that have 2248G FEXes in each rack. The SAN (in this case an HP P2000) is in the same rack as the pair of 5548s, and so are the servers that will be talking to it via ...

I'm looking at upgrading our primary storage array, and I was wondering what you all think about 10GbaseT vs 10G SFP+ DAC? What would be the best choice if we also need to support 1G for older servers ...

Sorry, I could not resist the alliteration. But seriously folks, with security snafus around data back-up in the news lately it is disturbing to read about the latest ...