It is possible to have a few number of large NFS datastores, but it is also a valid configuration to leverage a larger number of smaller NFS datastores. This may or may not be on multiple storage ...

Windows Servers come with a built-in feature called the iSCSI Target Server Role. This role enables the Windows server to act as a centralized storage provider, so we will enable this role. Here’s how ...

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 ...

How do I… Install, configure, and use Microsoft’s iSCSI initiator? Your email has been sent This blog post is also available as a TechRepublic download in PDF ...

Is it possible under ISCSI to share a datastore volume between mutiple ESXi Hosts? I have many ISO files on an ISCSI SAN volume that I would like to access from mutiple ESXi Hosts rather than copying ...

I have 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts. Customer is too cheap to buy even the Essentials license... Storage is a Dell MD3000i. I setup the first host with 4 VM's, all is fine. I want the second ESXi node to access ...

Configure the iSCSI initiator in Windows Server Core or Hyper-V Server Your email has been sent Provisioning storage to the Windows Server Core can be a challenge. Rick Vanover describes how to ...