What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

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Inside IT — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:17:52 GMT

Today marks an important milestone in Dell's drive to make technology easier for customers to deploy

re: What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

Dwayne — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:54:12 GMT

Nice intro to the product,

What is the strengths and weakness between this product and your Equal Logic iSCSI units?

Also we are just getting started in the VM 3i stuff. How does this inteface with VM 3i enterprise?

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Cal — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:55:57 GMT

Question for Lawrence.

I have just purchased 2 2950 and an MD3000i. I cannot get the ESX Server to talk to the MD3000i.

Did you need to set up a Linux software initiator to get your 1950 talking to your MD1000 in order to set up your virtual servers, as Chase suggests?

Thanks in advance.

re: What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

Lawrence — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:45:08 GMT

We have been running a 1950 with a MD1000 attached running Storage server with 5 Virtual servers attached to this via iSCSI and found it to be great. Nice and fast. (15+ Client servers running)

The MD300i was not an option then but I will now be looking at it now as it has great fault redundency built in. Fail over Nic's and controllers. Just what is needed and at a good price.

iSCSI just rocks

re: What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

Chase Hansen — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:23:41 GMT

Depending on what OS you are running its just an iSCSI Target and for example in running windows all you will need to do is download and install the Windows ISCSI initiator from Microsoft. I believe in Linux you have iscsi-initiator-utils and open-iscsi.

re: What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

D Sutherland — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:14:13 GMT

Thanks -- the training video is good. I love both facts that you are: 1) working on simplifying IT issues like this and; 2) that training/education that comes from videos like this.

I've read in sales literature for a while about SAN options but never really got it until this...

It's still unclear unfortunately what extra software or hardware I'd need on my other servers to mount these iSCSI SAN volumes.

re: What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:59:20 GMT

So what's your point? Where's the blog post about laptops to attach your spam comments to?

re: What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:19:06 GMT

So what's your point? Where's my supposedly 8/16 EDD laptop?

re: What iSCSI Means to Small and Medium Business Customers

Rob — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:07:54 GMT

What about the customers who are waiting for the Latitude XT? Why can't we have some details? You already announced the product...why hold back the information? Is it delayed?