In my previous articles in this series, I shared some hardware options to help you build an inexpensive iSCSI target and went over your Windows software options for enabling this functionality. In ...

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I'm trying to share an iSCSI target which is backed by a file on a read-only file system on CentOS. This seems straightforward to me, but I have very little iSCSI experience. I'm trying to mount the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

I'm using an iSCSI disk with Time Machine and it's working great. I use Open Filer http://www.openfiler.com and globalSAN http://www.studionetworksolutions.com ...

I’ve written many posts about my adventures in virtualized server building and management over the past couple of years. Mostly to document what I’ve learned and to see what others are doing. Things ...

Many technologies originally intended for the enterprise end up trickling down into the consumer market at some point. Some of these technologies (ethernet or virtualization, for instance) are more ...