Post Tagged with: "iSCSI"
How to enable iSCSI and Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX/ESXi
I am redoing my lab at home (more on that in coming weeks) and wanted to test out jumbo frames support in vmware esxi with my iSCSI NAS device. This article by vmware provides information related to setting up a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and an iSCSI environment with Jumbo Frames. Note: Jumbo Frames on [...]
Pogo Storage Launches PogoStor SAN+NAS Integrated Cloud Storage Appliances
Pogo Storage, a leader in open source storage integration, today announced the launch of the PogoStor™ SAN+NAS managed appliances, a new line of integrated cloud storage solutions, in collaboration with OS NEXUS and LSI® Corporation. PogoStor™ SAN+NAS managed appliances are based on the OS NEXUS storage platform and LSI MegaRAID® technologies, and offer high performance [...]
Maximizing Virtual Machine Scalability with iSCSI Storage
Server virtualization is being deployed on an almost universal scale to reduce costs and optimize data center resources. To underscore this point, a recent survey* reported several key findings: Server virtualization is widely used—74% of respondents are currently using server virtualization and another 19% are planning deployments. The number of virtualized servers is relatively small [...]
Strong Growth Continues in the Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Market
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 12.2%, totaling just over $5.6 billion, in the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to just shy of $7.5 billion in revenues, [...]
Dell Launches New Generation of Dell EqualLogic Storage Solutions
Dell today announced new Dell EqualLogic storage solutions and supporting software to help customers address the data management requirements of increasingly dynamic, virtualized data centers. The company also released details of new integration across its storage portfolio with the forthcoming VMware vSphere® 5 virtualization and cloud infrastructure platform. Today’s announcements represent another milestone in the [...]
Unable to connect to MKS: Virtual machine config file does not exist
If you have your VMs on an cheap iSCSI storage, chances are you’ve seen this error before in VMware vCenter: Unable to connect to MKS: Virtual machine config file does not exist When this happens, you cannot shutdown/stop or start the VM but VM IP address still remains pingable. Even if you to browse the [...]
Converged Storage Networks from Storage Engine
Storage Engine, Inc. (SEI), announces the addition of converged networking fabrics to its open storage connectivity solutions for virtualized data centers and private cloud deployments. Based upon open standards for Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FcOE), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), and iSCSI extensions for RDMA (iSER)…
Budget iSCSI NAS/SAN option for your Home Lab
In my previous blog on building a home virtualization lab, I mentioned about buying a budget Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution with iSCSI capability. I made a decision and bought the Thecus N7700PRO NAS.


