During a recent visit to QNAP here in Taiwan, one thing that popped up in conversation was why home users would need iSCSI. Admittedly my ignorance for iSCSI showed at this point - I'd never paid it ...

QNAP provides two options for space allocation. The Target disk is first divided up according to the administrator's set requirement and each user LUN gets its own space; that user space can be either ...

When you implement ESXi cluster, you need also a shared storage to store the virtual machine files. It can be a NAS, a SAN or vSAN. When using NAS or SAN, you can connect vSphere by using Fibre ...

Over 13,000 iSCSI storage clusters are currently accessible via the internet after their respective owners forgot to enable authentication. This misconfiguration has the risk of causing serious harm ...

When you implement ESXi cluster, you need also a shared storage to store the virtual machine files. It can be a NAS, a SAN or vSAN. When using NAS or SAN, you can connect vSphere by using Fibre ...

Studying for certification exams can be an adventure. Even more so when the certification exam is a hands-on, performance-based exam. The quandry most people I know fall into, is that to effectively ...

A technology that promises to bridge the worlds of data storage and networking has passed a key point on its path to becoming a usable standard. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) ...

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 ...

The iSCSI storage driver for IBM Storwize V7000 SAN provides OpenNebula with the possibility of using V7000 volumes as block devices for VM images. The use of block based storage presents several ...