These two technologies appear to be solving the same problem - namely, creating a redundant and optionally load balanced path between initiator and target. MPIO has broader scope and support, while ...

My iSCSI target is a FreeNAS box. It has 4 NICs dedicated to iSCSI. I have a dedicated iSCSI switch and the iSCSI network is on a separate subnet from all other networks. I am trying to connect to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

MPIO would almost be a necessity for me,” he says. Jim Tarala, CIO and chief technology officer at Schenck Business Solutions, a beta user of MPIO, concurs. “We’ll be taking that live. If I lose one ...

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 ...

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 ...