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 ...

I am in the process of a huge infrastrucure change and large purchase of a NetApp 2050 (20 300GB SAS, CIFS, iSCSI, (NFS option?)). The goal is to virtualize approx 8 servers on two IBM 3650's with ...

I was curious how well the drive would perform when I ran both an iSCSI and NFS CrystalDiskMark on the VMs that were on the TNAS simultaneously. The test reported that the NFS performed slightly ...

NFS is a high-performance file-sharing protocol in the same vein as SMB/CIFS, while iSCSI is a block-level storage protocol more akin to Fibre Channel in that it encapsulates raw SCSI commands. This ...

Over the last several weeks, I’ve delved into forgotten aspects of building an IP storage network and how to best leverage it with both NFS and iSCSI — the two dominant IP storage protocols used in ...

With the availability of iSCSI systems, IP storage is giving IT managers the storage consolidation and flexibility they need without the added complexity and financial burden associated with Fibre ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 20 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — QNAP Systems, Inc., a leadingmanufacturer of world class Network-Attached Storage (NAS) servers, NetworkVideo Recorders (NVR), and Network Multimedia Player ...

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 ...