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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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BTRFS Multiple Initiator Access

Can't seem to find this noted anywhere. Is BTRFS capable of being accessed over iSCSI by two hosts at once? (Think how esxi hosts access same datastores)
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Mixed ocfs2 clusters: direct access and iscsi

Good morning, I have this configuration: diagram of configuration One "shared disk" with one partition formatted as OCFS2 Host A and host B with direct access to the "shared disk" Host C with direct access to the "shared disk" used as iSCSI target…
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vCenter moving VM from ISCSI target to different ISCSI target

In my server lab, I am running a vCenter cluster with 2 ISCSI targets. Both of these are directly connected to switch using SFP+ port. I assume, when I do such a process as cloning a VM from one datastore to another (say ISCSI 1 -> ISCSI 2), the…
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ISCSI and SAN scaling

The Problem: I have a photography studio, and I ran into a problem when I just ran out of space on a monthly basis. Every month I just purchased additional HDD for a file server. now I have approx 120 TB of data, and 120 TB for backup. I am looking…
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rsync to remote ssh or to local iscsi

I'm curious of anyone knows a link to or can elaborate upon this design question: I have a server that I would like to make a backup copy of data from. I have a second server that is iscsi-enabled. My question involved using rsync to one of two…
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ISCSI, MPIO and Target-IPs

Today I played around with ISCSI, MPIO and performed some tests. Some went as expected, someothers delivered results I cannot explain. The Test-Environment was 2 virtual machines, named A and B. Both VMs have been assigned with 2 NICS, let's call…
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Windows 8.1 / iSCSI / Hyper-V Depedencies

My workstation has Windows 8.1 and uses iSCSI for SAN storage, which is where the Hyper-V configuration and VHD files sit. When the workstation is booting up, the VM is not able to auto start because "The Virtual Machines configuration…
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VMWare - Jumbo Frames over iSCSI to a NAS4Free array

I am having problems getting Jumbo Frames working over my iSCSI connection. Here is what I try. 4 1GbE connections on 4 different subnets on my NAS4Free array for iSCSI, MTU set at 9000 2 redunant switches with the MTU set at their maximum 12288(or…
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Where is the location of shares stored in Windows Server? (Switching iSCSI disk to VMDK)

I have a virtualized Windows Server 2008 with iSCSI volume attached (inside the guest). This disk servers as the main file server data disk with lots of shares, permissions, etc. I would like to "convert" the guest-attached iSCSI volume to a VMWare…
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When is iSCSI Required or Most Useful?

Background: I have two SANs (Dell Equallogic PS6100E, though not necessarily an eql. question). I have a NAS that connects to them (FS7600). That NAS is on the regular network lan, but has it's storage on the SAN. I can make the SANs one giant NAS…
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Backups devices for Windows Server Backup and Symantec

What is the best way to backup windows SQL, Exchange or AD servers data to? NAS, external USB , iSCSI or perhaps some other backup solution? I will not however be considering cloud backup solutions due to bandwidth restrictions and cost. Currently I…
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Feasibility of controlling two or more NAS via iSCSI

We currently run a two-year-old Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 through Windows iSCSI initiator on a Dell Optiplex 745. Meanwhile, we have two Seagate BlackArmor 440's running independently through Ethernet ports. Is it possible to add the BlackArmors to…
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iSCSI basic concepts

I have just detected that in one of my hosts (this is a virtual machine run by a cloud provider) there is a process eating up some bandwidth: NetHogs version 0.6.0 PID USER PROGRAM DEV SENT RECEIVED …
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Is vSphere 5 compatible with an OpenIndiana/Napp-it iSCSI datastore?

My hostd.log file on vSphere 5 says that partedUtil is timing out while trying to write the partition table on an iSCSI target being served from OpenIndiana/napp-it. I read that sized over 2TB give problems, so I sized the volume to 500GB. I tried…
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Synology NAS as iSCSI target for VMWare ESXi

The Synology NAS 810+ is 'certified as compatible with VMware vSphere 4' - but we are planning to go with a cheaper Synology rack NAs. What do we loose (except performance and size) if we want use one of Synology Rack NAS 407,409,409+,409RP+ as…
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