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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
<p>Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) has announced Microsoft qualification of Microsoft Multipath Input/Output (MPIO) for iSCSI as part of the Microsoft Designed for Windows Logo Qualification ...
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 ...
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 ...
With iSCSI SAN servers called upon to serve many different operating systems at the same time, an initial concern for any deployment is simple interoperability: Do these products work with different ...