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iSCSI - SCSI over IP - mount disks across the network

iSCSI is Internet Small Computer Systems Interface, and is a standard for sending SCSI commands across the IP layer of the TCP/IP suite.

Unlike ATA over Ethernet, (ATAoE) iSCSI allows you to use the same network link for mounting remote storage as well as communicating with the rest of the network.

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backup and *restore* SBS 2008 from iSCSI

Has anyone successfully backed up and restored SBS 2008 from an iSCSI device? The backup itself works fine, but during restore, how do you tell Windows System Recovery how to connect to the iSCSI device? I'm trying to use WSB (Windows Server…
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DroboPro ISCSI Connection - Connection has limited or no connectivity in Windows 2003

I have a DroboPro I've connected the device directly via USB and it works fine. If i connect the ethernet cable directly from the 2nd Network card on my host machine, to the DroboPro (in order to use ISCSI) then it doesn't seem to connect- I get a…
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openiscsi initiator shared ext3 disk

i have an iscsi target disk with only one ext3 partition on opensolaris using comstar i also have two ubuntu instances with openiscsi initators that connect to that disk both instances have this disk mounted (same disk is shared between…
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Need help with Server Case + Storage setup?

I'm pretty novice when it comes to high end server storage hardware. Right now i have just a mid tower case that is running hyper-v with 2 guess instances (1 Windows 7 + 1 Windows Home server). With the bad news that microsoft will remove DE from…
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As a small business about to overhaul infrastructure and go virtual, how can we take advantage of all the features of the QNAP TS-439 Pro II+?

Specifically, how can we benefit from these current list of features? We're very new to this and I want to be able to talk intelligently to our IT consultant. VMware Ready Citrix Ready Built-in iSCSI target service Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI…
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How to use more than 10 block level iSCSI volumes on Synology DSM 2.3 for ESXi

We have a Synology NAS RS810RP+ running DSM 2.3-1161 and there are several block level iSCSI devices configured. Each of the devices is used as iSCSI harddrive for a different ESXi VM. (Every VM has one device and every device belongs to one VM,…
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Configuring Openfiler 2.3 iSCSI as VM for large file storage (backup server)

Does anyone here use Openfiler as VM for the iSCSI datastore ? I'd like to know how do you set it as your Virtual Machine and what's the performance so far ? My primary goal is to present the Openfiler as iSCSI storage larger than 2 TB to my Windows…
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OpenFiler performance tuning best practice for iSCSI Windows file server use

I'd like to setup my OpenFiler to host very large files to act as the Backup files repository so mainly the primary use is the Backup servers >2 TB is there any best practice documentation that i can/should follow in order to achieve reliability and…
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Is ISCSI flow 1MB/sec good for web server?

In general, is it good practice to use iSCSI accessible SAN (Storage Area Network) for data storage in server?
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Intel Pro 1000 Adapters iSCSI, boot device and LACP

I'm currently testing iSCSI with Intel Pro 1000 PT DualPort adapter. The performance is pretty well but is it possible to combine both ethernet ports to have a true 2Gbit link for the boot device? Intel documentation doesn't explain this.
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Extending storage space with SAN/iSCSI

I'll be creating a Linux storage server with several TB capacity using a hardware RAID array. But I was wondering, what are my options for extending it in the future? To be more specifiec, if I create a volume group with the local RAID array as…
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Sub-$1000 iSCSI NAS options

I'm in the market for a sub-$1000 NAS solution for a small development/QA network. Needs to be reliable and something we won't worry about overnight, but does not need to be bulletproof/5 nines/what have you. A few avenues we have explored are: the…
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iSCSI support in Windows Server 2008

Does Windows Server 2008 support iSCSI? If yes, how to configure Windows Server 2008 to connect to an iSCSI disk? Does Windows Server 2008 supports all kinds/models of iSCSI or some specific kinds/models of iSCSI? thanks in advance, George
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Using Openfiler inside a virtualmachine and VmWare Fault Tolerance

currently I have 2 servers with Fault Tolerance working with another server with openfiler as a iSCSI server (looks like without that Fault Tolerance does not work). I would like to remove that server and put the openfiler distribution as another…
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Citrix XenServer iSCSI shared disk?

I am running Citrix XenServer Essentials 5.5, with VMs stored on an EqualLogic iSCSI shelf, using XenServer's StorageLink. I would like to create a "virtual disk" that can be attached to multiple VMs. This would be used for a cluster file system…
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