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 ...

We tested iSCSI servers by installing and configuring them, putting them through a series of typical tasks, and running performance tests. Our test bed was based on a dedicated data network provided ...

Storage requirements seem to be growing exponentially these days as storage gets cheaper and cheaper, so every server administrator must deal with the issue of managing storage and archives, whether ...

Using VMware Server 2, I can present a disk (using a 400GB Samsung SATA disk) to the VM via the SCSI Passthrough, and the OpenSolaris guest can enumerate the disk, but gives I/O errors whenever I ...

As the turn of the last millennium approached, it was clear that parallel SCSI had run its course as the interconnect of choice in network server storage. Ultra320 SCSI was the last generation of ...

For years, many experts have been declaring iSCSIthe next storage revolution, but has it really lived up to the hype? Well,yes and no. ISCSI is still a relatively new technology and it still has 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 ...

Enterprise network-attached storage vendor Agámi Systems, which specializes in live file system replication, has unveiled a new version of its NAS-based Information Server appliance that includes ...

I need a server to network some SCSI drives. These drives will be hooked up to the same bus as a musical keyboard. I want to be able to read/write to the drives using the keyboard, as well as from the ...

An IT standards body is close to ratifying a new serial interface specification for SCSI disk drives that’s expected to speed up I/O throughput in servers and could eventually challenge Fibre Channel ...

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 ...