iSCSI Support in HyperFlex 4.5

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by Joost van der Made

The latest HyperFlex Data Platform 4.5 can be found at: cisco.com/go/software and one of the new feature is iSCSI. With iSCSI you can have raw block storage device to your server over the network. I’ve already created a blog where I explained iSCSI in a nutshell and there is more! The playlist of all the … Read more

iSCSI in a Nutshell

November 13, 2020September 22, 2020 by Joost van der Made

In the blog of Vijay and in the podcast of Ronnie Chan a new feature of HyperFlex is mentioned: iSCSI. In this blog I will describe what iSCSI is. I already made a blog about iSCSI Target and Initiator Configuration and even a config of iSCSI QoS Nexus (2014 post, so things can be changed.) … Read more

iSCSI : Creating a Target and Initiator

November 13, 2020February 19, 2020 by Joost van der Made

To be honest, I never worked with iSCSI. After some questions, I had a closer look about the protocol. If you don’t have anything to do during a evening, you can read RFC 3720 and RFC 3721. The first thing you will need if you want to have some hands-on with the protocol is to … Read more

Howto Build Your Own Hyper-converged server with FreeNas in 7 steps!

November 13, 2020November 8, 2015 by Joost van der Made

Hyper-converged systems are hot, but what is it ?

In short : It’s a server where you run VMWare vsphere and you’re using local storage for your NAS/SAN with some better functions than the standard local datastores of VMWare got.

Is it possible to create one for home/SMB purpose ? Well.. I saw the page FreeNas on VMWare ESXi 6.0 and I thought ; Let’s give it a try.

What do you need :

a x86 server with lots of memory (for deduplication)
Some harddisks.
Bootable USD/SDCard
Two raid controllers ! One for the disks you want to put in FreeNas. One other harddisk (non-usb or sdcard) for a local datastore for the FreeNas image.
VMWare vsphere software
FreeNas software.

Howto start :

TOP 5 reasons to migrate to Cisco MDS SAN Switches

November 13, 2020September 30, 2015 by Joost van der Made

Yes, I like the Cisco MDS Switches. Right now they got the perfect portfolio for every customer with SAN Switches. Including you ! Just have a peek at the TOP 5 reasons and maybe, just maybe, you like it like I do ! TOP 5 : 5 : Integrated Management. With the standard integrated Device … Read more

Hardware for a Software Defined Storage Solution

November 13, 2020August 21, 2015 by Joost van der Made

Are you looking for good hardware for your SDS Solution ? Cisco got a nice server with a max of 60 HDDs! Yes, Cisco already got the C3160. It’s almost the same hardware, but there is one difference. The C3260 got 2 server nodes ! Why would you use those 2 nodes ? Think High … Read more

iSCSI QOS Nexus

December 2, 2014 by Joost van der Made

Identify iSCSI traffic : class-map type qos class-iscsi match protocol iscsi match cos 4 class-map type queuing class-iscsi match qos-group 4 policy-map type qos iscsi-in-policy class type qos class-fcoe set qos-group 1 class type qos class-iscsi set qos-group 4 policy-map type queuing iscsi-in-policy class type queuing class-iscsi bandwidth percent 10 class type queuing class-fcoe bandwidth … Read more