There’s no such thing as a dedicated iSCSI switch because iSCSI storage traffic runs on Ethernet networks. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t have a discussion about iSCSI switches as there are ...

I have a pair of Cisco Nexus 5548 that have 2248G FEXes in each rack. The SAN (in this case an HP P2000) is in the same rack as the pair of 5548s, and so are the servers that will be talking to it via ...

I've got a vSphere cluster setup with vCenter as a VM running on the cluster. From what I've read, if I lose the p-host running the vCenter VM, I also lose vMotion, vMotion Storage, DRS, etc until ...

An emerging storage protocol, supported by industry heavyweights like IBM, Cisco and EMC, promises to make storage area networks available to small and medium-size businesses and in the process create ...

As FCoE has come onto the scene, the FC vs. iSCSI fire has been reignited. A balanced perspective will save you time and money In the beginning there was Fibre Channel (FC), and it was good. If you ...

Storage networking hardware includes three basic components: host adapters, storage targets and switch interconnects. In traditional SANs, these basic building blocks have been based on Fibre Channel ...