What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

I am in the process of a huge infrastrucure change and large purchase of a NetApp 2050 (20 300GB SAS, CIFS, iSCSI, (NFS option?)). The goal is to virtualize approx 8 servers on two IBM 3650's with ...

I was curious how well the drive would perform when I ran both an iSCSI and NFS CrystalDiskMark on the VMs that were on the TNAS simultaneously. The test reported that the NFS performed slightly ...

We run equallogic arrays, so this means iscsi. We also support hundreds of linux servers. To reduce complexity and ease management I am looking to front-end NFS to the iscsi back-end for dev/qa ...

We’ve all been hearing about the simplicity and low cost of iSCSI for years now — and how iSCSI would topple FC (Fibre Channel) as the storage networking technology of choice for shops moving from DAS ...

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 ...

As an increasing number of storage vendors focus downmarket, new products are emerging that find shades of gray between the lowest of low-priced boxes and midrange offerings. A new product from Agami ...