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iscsitarget for linux, mounting on windows
I have an issue with iscsitarget, I feel I finally got it working, but when I mount the drives on my various windows machines, they seem to keep theire own folder structure.
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one computer1, ...
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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 ...
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Fibre Channel, HBAs, iSCSI, general IT knowledge?
I am looking between two options, a pair of Emulex LPe1150-E cards or a pair of Dell XR997 cards. What I'm looking to do:
I have a RAID6 array with an NTFS volume on an Areca card.
I have my ...
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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 ...
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A dynamic disk must be re-activated after boot
I have added a dynamic disk to a W2K3 machine.
It is correctly connected and displayed in the iScsi Initiator and correctly binded. However, I need to reactivate it in the Manage disks console after ...
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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 ...
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How to clone local windows 7 installation to iSCSI target for sanboot?
I have my own FreeNAS iSCSI service up in my LAN. I also able to install Windows 7 on ISCSI target and san boot the iSCSI target.
Now, I have a Windows 7 installation on local HDD. Is that possible ...
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Reading VMFS data from ZFS snapshot
I am wondering about something and maybe someone can give me a clue. If I have a server running ZFS plus an iSCSI target for my VMware ESXi box. Would ZFS snapshots of the iSCSI virtual block device ...
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iSCSI vs. SAMBA For Single Use
I have a SAMBA server on my home LAN running fine. My main computer is a MacBook Pro laptop; its 320GB hard drive used to be enough for me, but now I'm filling it up, I've considering expanding it.
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Can anybody give me an idea of when to use NFS and when to use iscsi as the file system?
What are the differences of these two types?
After searching on the Internet, I know NFS transfers files to the client, while iscsi transfers block to the client. With such information, I am still ...
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How to automatically mount a LUKS-encrpyted iSCSI device at boot time
I have a Debian Lenny server and a client with Kubuntu 10.10. The server provides some iSCSI storage. One of the devices is the /home of the Kubuntu client.
I know how to add devices to /etc/crypttab ...
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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 ...
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Best Type of RAID for VMware VMFS
What type of RAID volume would be the best type to use for a VMFS Volume on my ESXi Hosts. I will be using iSCSI shared storage between a cluster. I have the options of 0,1,5,1+0. I have narrowed ...
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How can I ensure that /dev/sdd & /dev/sde always map to the same drives each time the Linux machine starts?
OS: Linux 2.6.18 (RedHat-based distro)
I am transitioning from one iSCSI NAS to another iSCSI NAS. I have them both connected so that I can transfer data. However, each time I reboot the NAS that ...
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How install and boot Ubuntu 10.04 from an iSCSI target?
Is it possible to install Ubuntu 10.04 to an iSCSI target and boot from it?
For example Etherboot allows to boot Windows 2003 Server from iSCSI:
I'm thinking about a diskless computer, of course ...
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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 ...
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Can iSCSI be used with Windows Home Server?
I am looking to use a combination of iSCSI (Drobo 8-drive device) and Windows Home Server (either an HP appliance or building one from an older machine).
Will WHS + iSCSI work? If so will it work ...
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Unable to connect to shared (iscsitarget) dvd-rw drive on ubuntu karmic box
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I have desktop with DVD-RW drive that runs primarily on Linux (namely Ubuntu 9.10). My wife has netbook that rins Windows XP with no cd/dvd drive. There's also LAN through our ADSL ...
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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 ...
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How to back up a Windows Home Server over the network?
One of the very few reasons I have to physically interact with my Windows Home Server is to back it up to an external hard drive, with the "Backup Server" feature.
It would be more convenient to plug ...
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Is iSCSI good for my situation?
I want to setup a file server for my own personal use. It will be accessed from a simple home network by about 5 computers, mixed between Linux (Ubuntu, usually) and Windows.
I plan on using FreeNAS ...
