I've written a lot about iSCSI in these storage columns, and I believe it to have a very bright future, especially with 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisition costs ...

For sharing files between machines over a home network, it became essential for me to choose a consistent and relevant storage protocol rather than focusing solely on transfer speeds. Many home ...

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 ...

Windows Server includes a built-in iSCSI (short for Internet Small Computer System Interface) initiator that it can use to connect to an iSCSI target. In order to connect to such a target, however, ...

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 ...

So I have a pretty serious FreeNAS server, and I have another server running Hyper-V. I have been using iSCSI from the FreeNAS system straight to a guest on the Hyper-V server, and it has been rock ...

It's still a solid file-sharing protocol, though ...

How iSCSI packets are encapsulated and how to protect iSCSI data traffic Your email has been sent Scott Lowe answers some basic questions about iSCSI from TechRepublic readers. An astute TechRepublic ...

How do I… Install, configure, and use Microsoft’s iSCSI initiator? Your email has been sent This blog post is also available as a TechRepublic download in PDF ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

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 ...

Over 13,000 iSCSI storage clusters are currently accessible via the internet after their respective owners forgot to enable authentication. This misconfiguration has the risk of causing serious harm ...