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 ...

Previously, Microsoft offered only multipath I/O (MPIO) for Fibre Channel, although Network Appliance Inc. and EqualLogic Inc. adapted it for their iSCSI products. Microsoft’s goal is to simplify ...

Last year, Microsoft released version 2.0 of its free iSCSI initiator package, the software that allows Windows servers to make use of inexpensive iSCSI storage arrays by mounting remote volumes that ...

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 ...

Version 2.0 of Microsoft Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) software initiator will be ready for download by mid-April. Foremost among the enhancements is a multipath I/O feature ...

We're doing some MPIO testing. Our Storage Server has 4 NICs, each with its own IP that is on an iSCSI-dedicated network. Currently, the initiator we're dealing with just has a single NIC, but it does ...

I've no experience with iscsi. In fibre channel I've used multipathd to manage redundant HBA's. I've used Ethernet bonding to manage redundant network cards. Suppose I have two network cards attached ...

Chelsio Communications on Monday announced that its Unified Storage Router (USR-1000) is now available. The USR-1000 is a 10Gbps iSCSI to Fibre Channel router aimed at midrange to high-end enterprises ...

As simple as iSCSI is to get running, configuring it to perform optimally requires a solid knowledge of how it actually works Over the past two weeks, I’ve written about some of the commonly ...