After Microsoft released its free iSCSI target for Windows Server 2008 R2, we posted a guide on how to install the iSCSI target software on a server. The next logical step was to create a guide for creating a target. To simplify the demo a bit, I also decided to use a virtual disk.
Test Configuration
For this guide I simply...
This week saw a new version of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution (version 11.04) released, Toshiba making a pair of announcements around its NAND flash storage business, and Apple allegedly stamping its "i" of approval on the Cloud movement.
Ubuntu 11.04 Released
Ubuntu is a very popular (relatively) Linux distribution, so every six months, when a new version is released, it...
Recently Microsoft released an iSCSI Target for Windows Server 2008 R2. This is something that many users have requested for a long time, and with the introduction of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2, it became a logical add-on to offer with Windows Server 2008 R2. Perhaps the best part of the software is that Microsoft offers this software with...
Recently ServeTheHome.com looked at two different Intel P67 chipset boards, the ASUS P67 Sabertooth consumer offering and the Tyan S5512WGM2NR server motherboard. The ASUS P67 Sabertooth is marketed by ASUS as using high-quality components for better stability in the enthusiast space. The Tyan S5512WGM2NR was the first Tyan (and C204) motherboard reviewed on ServeTheHome and is targeted at the...
The Tyan S8230GM4NR is the second Tyan dual AMD G34 platform reviewed on ServeTheHome.com with the Tyan S8236WGM3NR being the first. Like the previously reviewed board, the S8230GM4NR packs two socket G34 CPUs and up to 24 Magny-Cours cores and sixteen DDR3 DIMM slots and four Intel LAN ports in an EATX form factor. With AMD's Magny-Cours architecture,...
One of the biggest storage management advancements in the past years has been the (re-) introduction of thin provisioning. Practically speaking, thin provisioning is one of the many technologies that have transformed some aspects of the age-old problem of storage utilization. Since storage utilization is a rough metric used to determine the amount of data, compared to actual capacity,...
This week saw OCZ accused of fraud, a big storage merger announced and divergent earnings reports from EMC and Western Digital.
Scathing Report Implies OCZ Has Committed Fraud
Copperfield Research has put out a scathing report around OCZ Technology entitled, " OCZ - The Master of SSD (Shady, Suspect, Deceitful)" The abstract said that the firm has found numbers that do...
Between its consumer/ gaming lines and its server lines, ASUS has a compelling set of workstation motherboards for a variety of platforms as denoted by WS line designation, like the ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution recently reviewed. ASUS has released an update to the popular P6T6 WS line in the ASUS P6X58-E WS. The P6X58-E WS is a mix between...
These days, IPMI 2.0 with KVM-over-IP functionality is virtually a requirement on server boards unless one is using an external KVM-over-IP unit plus an IP switched power distribution unit. Being able to remotely administer not just the operating system, as one can with tools like SSH/ Telnet, VNC and Remote Desktop clients is a huge advantage when things go...
Seagate today confirmed rumors aired by the Wall Street Journal yesterday (and predicted by ServeTheHome last month after the Western Digital - Hitachi GST announcement) when it announced its plans to purchase Samsung's hard drive business for $1.375B. What does this mean to the industry?
As was noted yesterday, the deal makes a lot of sense. Samsung is focusing on...