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iSCSI - SCSI over IP - mount disks across the network

iSCSI is Internet Small Computer Systems Interface, and is a standard for sending SCSI commands across the IP layer of the TCP/IP suite.

Unlike ATA over Ethernet, (ATAoE) iSCSI allows you to use the same network link for mounting remote storage as well as communicating with the rest of the network.

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Virtual iSCSI linux -- share as ISCSI ExFat, but have it go to XFS?

I'm building a RAID system based on a dell server with 18 drive bays; I want to use as JBOD and manage with LVM2/MDADM and use XFS as the base filesystem. However... I have a few bits of PC software that only work with iSCSI targets (not a…
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Need confirmation on how iSCSI RAID storage works

I have a Dell PowerEdge server with Windows Server 2019 that has an iSCSI target set up with 30 iSCSI LUNs. The HDDs are set up in a RAID-6. I have some IP cameras that have the ability to record directly to an iSCSI target that I can't get to…
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Linux server wont shutdown - A start job is running for Login iSCSI Target

I am settin up a server with draut and iSCSI - I messed up a target / IP mapping, and now my server is stuck while booting: A start job is running for Login iSCSI Target ... (23min 10s / no limit) I am currently unable to even reboot the server to…
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In running iSCSI, Disk I/O get worse when default gateway is connected

The server has been running iSCSI service for the diskless client, and I have noticed that the connection of server's gateway(internet connection or a fake gateway) made iSCSI performance worse. Is there anybody who has experienced this OR who could…
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Make data on file server (RAID1) still accessible on hardware failure

There is a file server (Windows Server 2008 R2) running on a hardware RAID 1 (HP SmartArray P212 with Read and Write Cache) with 2 standby disks. Additional, there is a Windows Backup writing to an attached SATA disk. When the server hardware (or…
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SFP+ iSCSI Optic Transceiver: Dell VS Other

Out of curiosity, does anyone have any experience with Dell iSCSI SAN connected with SPF+ transceivers? My question is about what makes…
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Best free software solution for homemade iSCSI SAN

I currently have a NAS running ZFS on Ubuntu but have recently changed my main windows software to pool local drives using Stablebit DrivePool. I cannot include networked drives in DrivePool unless they are iSCSI and are presented to the windows 10…
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BTRFS Multiple Initiator Access

Can't seem to find this noted anywhere. Is BTRFS capable of being accessed over iSCSI by two hosts at once? (Think how esxi hosts access same datastores)
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Mixed ocfs2 clusters: direct access and iscsi

Good morning, I have this configuration: diagram of configuration One "shared disk" with one partition formatted as OCFS2 Host A and host B with direct access to the "shared disk" Host C with direct access to the "shared disk" used as iSCSI target…
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vCenter moving VM from ISCSI target to different ISCSI target

In my server lab, I am running a vCenter cluster with 2 ISCSI targets. Both of these are directly connected to switch using SFP+ port. I assume, when I do such a process as cloning a VM from one datastore to another (say ISCSI 1 -> ISCSI 2), the…
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ISCSI and SAN scaling

The Problem: I have a photography studio, and I ran into a problem when I just ran out of space on a monthly basis. Every month I just purchased additional HDD for a file server. now I have approx 120 TB of data, and 120 TB for backup. I am looking…
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rsync to remote ssh or to local iscsi

I'm curious of anyone knows a link to or can elaborate upon this design question: I have a server that I would like to make a backup copy of data from. I have a second server that is iscsi-enabled. My question involved using rsync to one of two…
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ISCSI, MPIO and Target-IPs

Today I played around with ISCSI, MPIO and performed some tests. Some went as expected, someothers delivered results I cannot explain. The Test-Environment was 2 virtual machines, named A and B. Both VMs have been assigned with 2 NICS, let's call…
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Windows 8.1 / iSCSI / Hyper-V Depedencies

My workstation has Windows 8.1 and uses iSCSI for SAN storage, which is where the Hyper-V configuration and VHD files sit. When the workstation is booting up, the VM is not able to auto start because "The Virtual Machines configuration…
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VMWare - Jumbo Frames over iSCSI to a NAS4Free array

I am having problems getting Jumbo Frames working over my iSCSI connection. Here is what I try. 4 1GbE connections on 4 different subnets on my NAS4Free array for iSCSI, MTU set at 9000 2 redunant switches with the MTU set at their maximum 12288(or…
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