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Unable to delete ISCSI Target in Red Hat

bluesky1 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:25:11 +0000

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Advice required on building career in Storage Area Network

NSM — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:53:14 +0000

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Infiniband storage network using SRP

Chris74 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:01:21 +0000

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iSCSI Initiator errors after trying to set up IPsec.

Cyanexavior — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:01:59 +0000

In an effort to set up some sort of security on the IP traffic between the systems using iSCSI I attempted to implement IPsec. In doing so the Windows iSCSI initiators were no longer able to communicate with the targets. So after removing the settings in the local security policy most of the systems were back up and could see the vhds with the exception of one. This system can actually see the targets but whenever I try and create a session it gives me the error “The Target name is not found or is marked hidden from login”. An interesting note is that when I try and discover the host system through a specific portal it won’t show the targets, only when I set my iSNS server (which is the same machine). My suspicion is that the configuration settings from when I tried to set it up to use IPSec is still in there and flushing that out would do the trick. I would even be fine with reinstalling the initiator software if I could figure out how to uninstall it. (This system is using Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise). Jeez I’m just getting scatterbrained now, any ideas?

VM ESX using sata drives

Stantheman751 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:33:52 +0000

Can I install VMware’s ESX server on a system using sata drives or will I have to have scsi drives instead.

Thanks,

Stan

Has anyone used StarWind iSCSI for production network? What about its reliability and performance?

ITKE — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:13:33 +0000

StarWind claims to turn any standard server into a fault-tolerant, fail-safe Windows iSCSI target SAN. Compared to EMC and Netapp products, where does it stand in term of performance & reliability (e.g. assuming new & stable server)? Has anyone deployed it on production? What kind of hardware do you use/recommend (e.g. Dell R410 etc)? Can StarWind support advanced features like deduplication & thin replication?

What are the benefits tO FC and iSCSI?

Enhancetech — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:58:56 +0000

Cost effective and easier
to manage ?

Stonefly optisan hanging

ITKE — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:16:34 +0000

Whenever I give a disk rescan, the server mysteriously gets hung. the system log throws the following error – “A connection to the target was lost, but Initiator successfully reconnected to the target. Dump data contains the target name.”

Storage : Stonefly optisan
Host : Windows 2003

Hyper-v + iscsi storage

ITKE — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:41:38 +0000

we use a hyper-v server which has a connection with a storage server through ISCSI,
we manage the hyper-v server with MS VMM.
when creating a machine from a template it copy’s it to itself using BITS
cause of that the creating taking 45min for deployment
is there any way we can setup hyper-v or Iscsi that it knows that the destination path and template are on the same server and does not have to go over the network port ?

server1: windows 2008 R2 = DC + microsoft VMM
server2: windows 2008 R2= hyper-v server with iscsi iniator connection to server3(appears as local drive in drive management)
server3: microsoft storage server 2008
template is about 16gb ( windows 2008 machine for students)
the current servers we have dont have dedicated iscsi ports yet
so for testing purposes its on the same network

Total throughput on the iSCSI interface (between server and storage)

IHFL — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:45:00 +0000

If i put 4 No. 10/100/1000 ethernet ports on server as well as on storage and i connect and configure teaming of the ethernet ports; what troughput i should get from it.

i) 4 GBPS throughput.

ii) Less than 4 GBPS throughput and why less.?