Tag: iSCSI

Enterprise data storage: complex, expensive and mission critical Since former Meta Group analyst Doug Laney (now Gartner) famously defined the three ‘V’s of big data in 2001, we’ve all been seeing increases in the volume of data stored. Analyst firms might make varying projections of total market growth and value, but they are all agreed […]

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With the announcement of SUSE Enterprise Storage (SES) 2.0 earlier in October came big changes and updates for our Ceph-based software defined storage solution.  One of those changes include support for iSCSI, which allows non-Enterprise Linux Servers (Linux, UNIX, Windows) to access block storage made available from the SUSE Enterprise Storage Cluster to provide a […]

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Here at SUSE, we are proud to continue our rapid pace of innovation in bringing the best to our customers with the release of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2.  This release does far more than just update the code base to the Ceph Hammer release, and I will attempt to outline some of the great new […]

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Here’s a quick overview of the steps needed to bind different NICS to iSCSI ifaces and use those ifaces to setup multipathing.

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Every day it seems I find something new that Linux Just Does. Last week I finally decided I needed to learn about “shared storage” and started asking the resident experts here, who all pointed me to YaST. Much to my surprise iSCSI is built into YaST and works out of the box with SLES without much more than ten minutes and an understanding of the technology. For the quickest understanding of shared storage I can muster this article is now being created. Hopefully it will be as enlightening to others as this topic was to me.

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Unpartitioned iSCSI LUN(s) are not mounted automatically at system startup/boot. Here’s a solution from Muhammad Sharfuddin.

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Ever wondered how to boot a server with NFS as root? Or how to implement iSCSI as root with out having a iSCSI initiator card? This AppNote discusses and shows you how to implement a PXE Boot server to boot NFS and iSCSI on root installations.

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Interested in implementing MPIO over iSCSI and then building a cluster on it? Well, this feature article explores some of the concerns and some recommendations to build a solid, stable MPIO over iSCSI solution, especially if implementing OCFS2 and NCS.

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Ivan Vari shows you how to create and manage iSCSI volumes (including LVM managed) on SLES 10 SP1 then mount them automatically at reboot.

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