Tom shows how to set up an iSCSI target using both the GUI (Server Manager) and PowerShell, and then adding it to his ESXi server. When setting up a new VMware Horizon environment, I needed someplace ...

Good question, Edgar. Your problem stems from how small computer systems interface (SCSI) reservations are handled by your system's underlying storage controller. SCSI reservations (or SCSI ...

The symptoms that I’m seeing are that my 2008 servers lock-up when performing large file-copy operations (5.9GB VHD file) from the local machine (initiator), to an iSCSI mounted target. However, the ...

Microsoft today released an addition for Windows Server 2008 R2 that enables shared block storage in storage area networks using the iSCSI Protocol. The new Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 is the ...

Previously, I wrote an article on some possible hardware options to help enable you to build a cheap (as in inexpensive, not shoddy) storage server with the ultimate goal of being able to run software ...

When one of his Windows Servers stopped connecting to its storage array, Brien could find only an incomplete fix and an even weirder problem with Windows. I recently ran into a weird situation ...

Configure the iSCSI initiator in Windows Server Core or Hyper-V Server Your email has been sent Provisioning storage to the Windows Server Core can be a challenge. Rick Vanover describes how to ...

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 ...

In my previous articles in this series, I shared some hardware options to help you build an inexpensive iSCSI target and went over your Windows software options for enabling this functionality. In ...