Category: Storage
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Portable Security: A walking Fortress
In January, 2018 I wrote a couple of articles about the Aegis Secure Key 3z Flash Drive from Apricorn Inc. At the time, I was extremely interested in its use as a Windows To Go (WTG) device, and in fact it tested very well for that task. The fact that Microsoft has announced they have…
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Help! My free storage cannot be used for an iSCSI Virtual Disk!
I have written at length in the past about both Storage Spaces (Storage Pools: Dive right in!) and Software iSCSI Targets (iSCSI Storage in Windows Server 2012), as well as Failover Clusters (See list). These are all great technologies that IT Professionals should know. Recently I got an e-mail from a reader who had all…
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Onboard SAN… Issues.
A client of mine is a small business with a couple of physical servers and a couple of virtualization hosts. One of the physical servers, a Lenovo ThinkServer, has been acting as a file server, so it has really been very under-used. It is a good server that has never been used to its potential…
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Step-by-Step: Configuring the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target as a Storage Device for System Center VMM
Over the past few months we have made a big deal about the storage features of Windows Server 2012, including how the built-in iSCSI Software Target allows you to build a low-cost software-SAN (storage area network) for small environments, and how that lets you create a Hyper-V Failover Cluster without the expense of an actual…
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iSCSI Storage in Windows Server 2012
Storage is one of the most important aspects of our IT infrastructure. In this day and age of virtualization it is even more important because our entire server infrastructure may be stored on a limited set of devices. Of course that is a lot easier said than done, especially for smaller companies with limited IT…
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Storage Pools… Dive right in!
This article was originally posted to the Canadian IT Pro Connection. Storage Pools are a new feature in Windows Server 2012 that at first glance (at the terminology) may look like software RAID arrays that have been around for years, but are really a new concept, or at least several generations of advancement on the…
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When I’m Sixty-Four… TERABYTES!
Okay, I am asking for a show of hands: How many of you remember 100MB hard drives? 80? 40? While I remember smaller, my first hard drive was a 20 Megabyte Seagate drive. Note that I didn’t say Gigabytes… Way back then the term Terabyte might have been coined already as a very theoretical term,…
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