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 ...

Windows Server includes a built-in iSCSI (short for Internet Small Computer System Interface) initiator that it can use to connect to an iSCSI target. In order to connect to such a target, however, ...

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 ...

Tom shows how to set up an iSCSI target using both the GUI (Server Manager) and PowerShell, and then adding it to his ESXi server. When setting up a new VMware Horizon environment, I needed someplace ...

Good question, Edgar. Your problem stems from how small computer systems interface (SCSI) reservations are handled by your system's underlying storage controller. SCSI reservations (or SCSI ...

Previously, I wrote an article on some possible hardware options to help enable you to build a cheap (as in inexpensive, not shoddy) storage server with the ultimate goal of being able to run software ...

Those of you with Windows file servers running on vSphere, how do you provision the data volumes assuming you don't want to use VMFS? I'm struggling to find a significant reason either way to go with ...

The symptoms that I’m seeing are that my 2008 servers lock-up when performing large file-copy operations (5.9GB VHD file) from the local machine (initiator), to an iSCSI mounted target. However, the ...

In the storage business, a popular metric for measuring management costs is to compute “T-byte/FTE”, which is how many TB a FTE can manage. While that may seem a bit over the top at first glance, ...

When setting up a new VMware Horizon environment, I needed someplace to store my virtual desktops and decided to use Windows Server 2022 as an iSCSI target for my ESXi servers. Although this is a ...

In my previous articles in this series, I shared some hardware options to help you build an inexpensive iSCSI target and went over your Windows software options for enabling this functionality. In ...