Hi, I've had the free version of the iSCSI SAN in our lab, and testing things out using the virtual disk image option. I'll usually create a virtual disk image iSCSI target, then format the iSCSI target as VMFS5, and run some VM guests off of it. I'm getting ready to consider purchasing the pay vers...

Very good to know, kmax! Thanks so much for your insight. Now I need to come up with some sort of extended outage plan. Our area is notorious for blackouts - sometimes lasting up to 4 hours. Although our entire town is completely being upgraded for the electrical infrastructure, I'm going to put in ...

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie to all of this, so please bear with me. I am just beginning to test out iSCSI in our environment, and it looks like to really have any kind of HA, you need two of everything. For cash strapped folks, what is a best practice for when a target needs to be rebooted (like for W...