I’ve been spending some time recently working with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation platform and one of the major hassles I’ve experienced is having to use the command line rather than GUI for certain functions. If you’re not aware, Windows 2008 Core is a stripped down version of a standard Windows 2008 Server deployment and so has no GUI interface. That makes administering features such as iSCSI a little more challenging.
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part II
In this post, we will discuss file layout, formats and protocols available on the NS4600. The previous post (above) [...]
This post is the first in a series covering the DroboElite SMB storage device from Data Robotics Inc.
The DroboElite is the most fully featured storage array in the Data Robotics range of devices. Regular readers will know I’ve posted frequently on these devices, from the first
I’m not a fan of making press releases on behalf of other companies however once in a while, a news item catches my interest. So it is with the announcement of the Violin Memory Inc. 3200 series of all-memory storage arrays. Why are these interesting? Because I think they are moving and potentially [...]
It’s pretty traditional to start the year looking at what will be prevalent in the coming 12 months. In this opinion article, I will discuss whether we’ll see the prevalence of iSCSI or FCoE and what we can expect, looking back this time in 2011.
History and Background on iSCSI
iSCSI as a concept was [...]
I’m in the process of migrating my existing physical infrastructure into a virtual environment. There’s nothing like “eating your own dog food” (there’s got to be a better expression than that) for testing out your beliefs on how technology should be implemented, so it’s only fitting I virtualise the IT infrastructure I rely on.
In [...]
I’d like to think I’ve visited a lot of customer sites over the years. Admittedly most of these are “enterprise” class with multi-terabyte if not petabyte quantities of storage. None of those customers have ever bothered deploying iSCSI as their storage protocol. Invariably block storage has been implemented using fibre channel and file using CFS [...]
This is the second of a series of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target. The posts relate to version 4 of the product. Previous post(s) can be found at:
Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part I
In the first post of this review, I explained [...]
A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage). With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could prove tricky and why without an [...]
There’s a new Drobo out!
The Drobo range has been expanded with the release of the DroboPro, an 8-drive big brother to the Drobo “classic”. The new model is being touted as a “business class storage array” and looks very interesting for the basic price tag of $1299 [...]
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