Storage

  • Simulate-SAN-Storage-with-FreeNAS-11.2

    Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2

    If you are like me, you are constantly labbing various storage solutions and connectivity from virtual hosts and the like in the home lab. Most likely, you don’t have a several thousand dollar SAN lying around to provision every time…

  • Add-extra-iSCSI-group-IDs-to-each-target-in-FreeNAS

    FreeNAS iSCSI Configuration for MPIO

    In the last post, Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI installation and configuration, we looked at configuring MPIO multi-pathing on a Hyper-V host connected to iSCSI storage. In a home lab environment, you may want to play around with iSCSI storage for…

  • Dell-EMC-UnityVSA-homelab

    Dell EMC UnityVSA storage appliance installation and configuration

    One of the great resources for home lab environments is vendor released virtual storage appliance software solutions that emulate models of hardware that is typically found in the enterprise. Getting your hands on the actual hardware appliances can be difficult…

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    Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore

    Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at the process of deploying the ScaleIO environment including the SDC…