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 ...

I'm playing around with iSCSI for backups. I've set up a successful Windows Backup over iSCSI to a Linux LIO target to provide networked backups to non-pro Windows clients on my LAN (Windows 7 Home ...

Of course you use iSCSI LUNs, for the precise reason you outlined - if you use VMDKs on a VMFS volume, you lose all the agent capabilities provided by your SAN. You also get to skip a couple of ...

Anyone who has considered crossing the bridge from DAS to a SAN has faced a fundamental choice between two technologies: the established, but pricey FC (Fibre Channel) and the more affordable but ...

As we write this, word is in that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has officially approved the iSCSI specification as a “proposed standard.” And already the standard has its first big-name ...

Hossein Shahrokhi is adding 20 servers to his Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) at the University of Houston-Downtown. But Shahrokhi, executive director of IT, isn’t laying new fiber-optic ...

Setting up and maintaining an iSCSI storage array can be a challenge, even for an experienced IT administrator. Reducing the job to child's play is Drobo, which recently expanded its line of compact, ...

ISCSI is on a roll and scheduled for mainstream adoption, analysts say. While it won’t replace Fibre Channel in customer’s storage-area networks (SAN), it will have an impact on the network, and its ...

The price and performance of these two rivals may be closer than you think. Much depends on what -- and who -- is already in place Anyone who has considered crossing the bridge from DAS to a SAN has ...