During a recent visit to QNAP here in Taiwan, one thing that popped up in conversation was why home users would need iSCSI. Admittedly my ignorance for iSCSI showed at this point - I'd never paid it ...

ISCSI is a standard protocol for running block-level SCSI commands over an IP network. Storage managers can use iSCSI as a low-cost way of consolidating and pooling storage into storage-area networks ...

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Client by client, iSCSI is claiming ground against fibre channel in the external storage wars. For Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY, that day of reckoning came a week or so before ...

Skeptics of IP storage will be disheartened to learn that the buzz about iSCSI-based SANs is getting louder. While iSCSI, the long-touted protocol for interconnecting hosts and arrays over TCP/IP ...

Tom follows up on his previous article about installing FreeNAS and using it to create an NFS share to back a VM, now creating an iSCSI target on FreeNAS and using that target as backing for a vSphere ...

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 ...

Debates continue to rage over whether or not the "Year of iSCSI" has officially arrived, but one thing is for certain, there are more iSCSI products, more iSCSI accessory devices and more approaches ...

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 ...

XenSource announced partnerships with several of the leading storage vendors to boost the comprehensive iSCSI storage support, included in its recently released XenEnterprise 3.2. The company's iSCSI ...

Storage networks allow disparate storage resources to be centralized and organized within the data center. The available storage can then be centrally managed and allocated to users or applications.

QNAP provides two options for space allocation. The Target disk is first divided up according to the administrator's set requirement and each user LUN gets its own space; that user space can be either ...