These two technologies appear to be solving the same problem - namely, creating a redundant and optionally load balanced path between initiator and target. MPIO has broader scope and support, while ...

Previously, Microsoft offered only multipath I/O (MPIO) for Fibre Channel, although Network Appliance Inc. and EqualLogic Inc. adapted it for their iSCSI products. Microsoft’s goal is to simplify ...

My iSCSI target is a FreeNAS box. It has 4 NICs dedicated to iSCSI. I have a dedicated iSCSI switch and the iSCSI network is on a separate subnet from all other networks. I am trying to connect to the ...

With iSCSI making major inroads into the enterprise environment, more CIOs and storage administrators are considering this lower-cost technology to help facilitate a move to a centralized storage ...

Last year, Microsoft released version 2.0 of its free iSCSI initiator package, the software that allows Windows servers to make use of inexpensive iSCSI storage arrays by mounting remote volumes that ...

As simple as iSCSI is to get running, configuring it to perform optimally requires a solid knowledge of how it actually works Over the past two weeks, I’ve written about some of the commonly ...

The author is senior product design engineer for audio processing for Wheatstone. Thanks to Glynn Walden for his questions in last month’s Radio World Reader’s Forum (Jan. 3 issue) regarding KSDS’ ...