CTO, SAS developer

Ben Conner

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Perfect. &nbsp;Thanks, Arnold!<br />
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--Ben
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I do have 2 switches: 1 10gbe that I set aside for host-host and host-iscsi traffic. &nbsp;The 2nd switch is for other workstation &amp;&nbsp;Internet traffic and is a 1gb switch.
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Good morning,<br />
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Can someone point me to a primer on defining an ISCSI datastore in VCSA 6.7? &nbsp;I created a target in Windows 2012 R2 sitting on top of a RAID 6 cluster using ReFS. &nbsp;Would like to see how it performs.<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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--Ben
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Good morning,

Can someone point me to a primer on defining an ISCSI datastore in VCSA 6.7?  I created a target in Windows 2012 R2 sitting on top of a RAID 6 cluster using ReFS.  Would like to see how it performs.

Thanks!

--Ben

I do have 2 switches: 1 10gbe that I set aside for host-host and host-iscsi traffic.  The 2nd switch is for other workstation &amp;amp; Internet traffic and is a 1gb switch.

ISCSI Primer for VCSA?

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.

RAID

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.