VMware has announced upgrades to its Virtual SAN (VSAN) functionality in the vSphere 6.5 virtualisation environment, with enhancements that include support for containers, physical servers via ...

Is it possible under ISCSI to share a datastore volume between mutiple ESXi Hosts? I have many ISO files on an ISCSI SAN volume that I would like to access from mutiple ESXi Hosts rather than copying ...

LeftHand Networks announced that their iSCSI SAN solution powered by SAN/iQ 6.6 has achieved VMware ESX Server 3 certification and is now listed on VMware's Storage / SAN compatibility guide. LeftHand ...

I'm planning out a server consolidation project for my organization over the next few weeks. We are a small to mid-size (but growing rapidly) organization and we are going to be consolidating about 20 ...

When setting up a new VMware Horizon environment, I needed someplace to store my virtual desktops and decided to use Windows Server 2022 as an iSCSI target for my ESXi servers. Although this is a ...

In a previous article, I showed you how to set up and use Ubuntu as a Network File System (NFS) server and use it to store virtual machines (VMs) from a vSphere environment. In this article, I'll go a ...

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 ...

As iSCSI continues to find its niche in storage environments, users have a raft of choices when it comes to methods of deploying iSCSI storage area networks (San), from prepackaged offerings by legacy ...

When is it okay to allow multiple hosts to connect to a single iSCSI array? Your email has been sent Scott Lowe answers a TR member's question about the wisdom of connecting multiple hosts to a single ...