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iSCSI (or Internet Small Computer System Interface) is a network storage technology that can be used to transfer data across IP networks.

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What is the advantage of iSCSI over SMB?

At my house I'm running a Hyper-V server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM acting as a file server. Files are shared across my network using SMB. (Also, the machine is using a PERC 6/i RAID card but I don't think that's important) I'm thinking…
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Can I install Windows on a diskless system with iSCSI?

I'm reorganizing my home network, which now includes a NAS box, that, among other things, allows me to export partitions via iSCSI. Now I'd like to get rid of the harddisk in my Windows machine, as it makes quite an amount of noise and provides no…
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hosting iscsi on smartos

I am trying to get back into the unix game for some storage projects we have got going. We would love to use joyents smartos (based on illumos) for that. Working with it is a real joy (setting up vms etc) but i can't get iscsi to work. I would love…
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Can iSCSI be used share SCSI scanner over network?

Last weekend, I got an old, but very high-end, SCSI slide scanner. My "real" computer is a laptop running Windows 10. AFAIK, there's no cheap/good way to directly give it a "real" SCSI port. I have an old desktop computer running Windows 7, and…
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Diagnosing iSCSI bottleneck

I just got my hands on a few DL380 G5s, and I thought I would use them in my home lab to test out the creation of a Hyper-V cluster using an iSCSI storage setup. I have installed Server 2012 R2 on all three, and have created a couple of iSCSI…
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using ZFS and local hard drives as a cache for a remote iSCSI SAN

This is purely theoretical idea, i dont plan on doing this any time soon, but could you use Local hard drives as a kind of Cache to remote drives stored on Amazon EC2, shared to a user via iSCSI? The idea i think is as follows: ZFS locally can use…
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tradeoffs of iSCSI vs. AFP when using Time Machine with a NAS?

I'm setting up a home NAS device (Synology DS409) that I'm planning to use for Time Machine backups (amongst other things). What are the tradeoffs between using iSCSI or AFP to mount the backup volume? The Synology wiki suggests that iSCSI is…
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Alternate iSCSI clients for OSX

I am looking for a iSCSI initiator that is not ATTO or GlobalSAN.
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How do I automount a LUKS partition on iscsi at boot?

I have a partition on a CentOS7 machine that is mounted from iSCSI as follows: iSCSI -> LVM -> LUKS -> XFS /etc/crypttab is configured as follows with a key: home_vmail UUID="b79e45cf-89aa-40f2-9fb1-f62f0c795e88" /etc/keyfile /etc/fstab is…
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What is the maximum SCSI LUN size?

What is the maximum size of single (i)SCSI LUN from perspective of SCSI protocol, what is the limit?
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Am I likely to encounter data loss when using ZFS send to copy a pool to a server without ECC memory?

I have an OmniOS file server with a ZFS raidz2 array that I want to back up to another machine over gigabit ethernet. The other machine is a Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) system with non-ecc RAM connected to a pile of USB 3.0 external hard drives. I want to…
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Windows 7 Home Premium recovering from iSCSI target?

I have a notebook with Windows7 Home Premium which unable to backup to a network drive, but can use an iSCSI device. For backup... :( But... Is there any way to restore my system from the backup was put on an iSCSI device? If I boot the install DVD,…
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What is wrong with my fast-network's slow-network-share(s)?

I have done extreme amounts of testing. cp, dd, rysnc, iperf, netcat, custom-dd and probably more. What I am looking at is a strong network. The iperf results below show that, and I have other data to validate it as well. What I am looking for is a…
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Race condition for mounting multi-unit volume with iSCSI and systemd

I have configured a Linux system to mount a volume provided through iSCSI, from a systemd mount unit that gives the Open-iSCSI service as a required and previous unit (i.e. Requires=iscsi.service and After=iscsi.service under section [Unit]). The…
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How to connect to iscsi target with iscsiadm from Synology through SSH

Since we want to back up our Synology NAS internally with a rotation system, I'm trying to connect to an iscsi target on my tandberg/overland Quickstation 4 from my Synology NAS (SA3400). I've tried using iscsiadm from the command line through SSH…
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