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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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Where is the location of shares stored in Windows Server? (Switching iSCSI disk to VMDK)

I have a virtualized Windows Server 2008 with iSCSI volume attached (inside the guest). This disk servers as the main file server data disk with lots of shares, permissions, etc. I would like to "convert" the guest-attached iSCSI volume to a VMWare…
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When is iSCSI Required or Most Useful?

Background: I have two SANs (Dell Equallogic PS6100E, though not necessarily an eql. question). I have a NAS that connects to them (FS7600). That NAS is on the regular network lan, but has it's storage on the SAN. I can make the SANs one giant NAS…
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Backups devices for Windows Server Backup and Symantec

What is the best way to backup windows SQL, Exchange or AD servers data to? NAS, external USB , iSCSI or perhaps some other backup solution? I will not however be considering cloud backup solutions due to bandwidth restrictions and cost. Currently I…
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Feasibility of controlling two or more NAS via iSCSI

We currently run a two-year-old Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 through Windows iSCSI initiator on a Dell Optiplex 745. Meanwhile, we have two Seagate BlackArmor 440's running independently through Ethernet ports. Is it possible to add the BlackArmors to…
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iSCSI basic concepts

I have just detected that in one of my hosts (this is a virtual machine run by a cloud provider) there is a process eating up some bandwidth: NetHogs version 0.6.0 PID USER PROGRAM DEV SENT RECEIVED …
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Is vSphere 5 compatible with an OpenIndiana/Napp-it iSCSI datastore?

My hostd.log file on vSphere 5 says that partedUtil is timing out while trying to write the partition table on an iSCSI target being served from OpenIndiana/napp-it. I read that sized over 2TB give problems, so I sized the volume to 500GB. I tried…
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Synology NAS as iSCSI target for VMWare ESXi

The Synology NAS 810+ is 'certified as compatible with VMware vSphere 4' - but we are planning to go with a cheaper Synology rack NAs. What do we loose (except performance and size) if we want use one of Synology Rack NAS 407,409,409+,409RP+ as…
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steps to troubleshoot server when it fails to attach and mount LUNs

How to troubleshoot when Windows Server 2012 R2 connected to SAN via iSCSI fails to attach and mount the LUNs from the iSCSI target
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sg_map & lsscsi showing old storage version

I am using SUN storage and recently upgraded/refreshed my ISCSI LUN storage. We have replicated old storage to new storage and attached to our servers. I can see at SUN storage side that storage is attached to server and also from server when I run…
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large iSCSI disk a good idea on an entry-level "unified" NAS?

I am working on implementing a D2D backup solution for ~150 computers based on Crashplan ProE (no cloud storage). For the storage backend, I picked up an Overland Snapserver DX2 head unit and one expansion, with 12x2TB per cabinet and I'm planning…
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Windows Server 2003R2: automatically attaching an iSCSI disk at each startup and setting network shares?

I have a Windows 2003R2 Server soon to be replaced. The server was just connected via iSCSI to a WD MyCloud 4100 NAS, using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator. A large number of directories exists on this disk. And most of the root-level directories are…
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Setting up iSCSI on an external hard drive with 4K sector size

I have a WD My Book 3TB external hard drive connected to a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. I'm trying to make that machine an iSCSI target. Everything is set up, but I can't create a virtual hard disk on that external drive (although I can…
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high bandwidth usage iscsid, who's doing it?

We run a couple of onapp nodes that connect through iSCSI to a SAN. This is now using up all bandwidth and we want to know where it is coming from, we have been search for days now and would like to ask the community. iftop: x.x.x.x => y.y.y.y …
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Is the iSCSI initiator installed and running by default on Win 2008 R2 and Win 2012

Basically, the title says it all. I really appreciate your responses.
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iSCSI drive running at 100% but SAN and Network are not

We have a virtual server running on VMware. This virtual server has a number of iSCSI drives attached to it (E, F & G drives). It has 2 virtual NICs - 1 for normal network traffic and 1 for iSCSI. Both NICs are connected at 1Gbps. We are running…
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