iSCSI Network Storage White Papers

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Managing Access Control through SAS Zoning sponsored by PMC-Sierra, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is gaining popularity in small SAN environments. Read this white paper to learn about SAS zoning and how it helps IT administrators create more flexible, scalable and efficient server networks that meet their business needs. Posted: 06 Oct 2005 \| Published: 01 Sep 2005 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Continuous Data Protection \| DAS \| Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Hard Disk Drives \| iSCSI SAN \| SCSI Devices \| Serial ATA \| Storage Switches \| Tiered Storage

Reducing Power Consumption With Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control. Posted: 29 Jan 2010 \| Published: 29 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Centers \| Energy Efficiency \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

Top Five Reasons to Sell EMC’s New VNXe Series Unified Storage sponsored by EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions WHITE PAPER: Learn how to Increase your opportunities and shorten your sales cycle by selling the EMC® VNXe™ series, a new unified storage offering for small and medium-size businesses. Continue reading this paper to learn the top five reasons to sell EMC’s new VNXe series unified storage. Posted: 14 Mar 2011 \| Published: 14 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Customer Satisfaction \| IP SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| SAN \| SMBs \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

Forrester Thought Leadership White Paper: Exploring the Potential Benefits of End-to-End Convergence of Data Center Networks sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discloses the results of an evaluation of end-to-end storage area network/local area network (SAN/LAN) networking issues including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adoption. Posted: 14 Feb 2012 \| Published: 14 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| LAN Hardware \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| SAN

Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 3.0 Backup on NetApp sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups. Posted: 30 Jan 2009 \| Published: 30 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Best Practices \| Disaster Recovery \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| SLA \| SQL Server \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Dell Compellent Storage Center - Linux sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of specific information required for administrating storage on Linux servers connected to the Dell Compellent Storage Center. The information is intended for administrators with at minimum a basic understanding of Linux systems, specifically general tasks around managing disk partitions and file systems. Posted: 05 Apr 2012 \| Published: 05 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages. Posted: 02 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Using Tiered Storage in a PS Series SAN sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN. Posted: 10 Mar 2011 \| Published: 10 Mar 2011 TOPICS: iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Tiered Storage

iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores this setup and configuration. Posted: 06 May 2009 \| Published: 30 Sep 2008 TOPICS: iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Libraries

InfiniBand for Storage Applications sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.