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Dustin A. Lambert
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Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:
iSCSI, HBAs |
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Greetings,
We are looking to setup an iSCSI based SAN with 4 clustered Windows
2003 Servers. While realizing that a gigabit NIC would handle the
job, do I have to have an HBA for iSCSI for advanced storage solutions
such as Volume Shadow Copy?
According to http://is.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=23&ARTICLE_ID=177898
I have to have a supported HBA to do so. I cannot find anymore
information on this from Technet, etc.
Quote:
'While both types of adapters speed up iSCSI processing on the server,
Microsoft Windows treats TOE adapters very differently than iSCSI
HBAs. "An iSCSI HBA appears to Windows as a storage device, while an
iSCSI TOE card appears as a very smart NIC," says Microsoft's Adam.
"iSCSI HBAs allow booting from an iSCSI target and can take advantage
of Windows storage services." '
Any information is appreciated.
In His Peace,
Dustin Lambert |
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Jeff Goldner [MS]
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Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:19 am Post subject:
Re: iSCSI, HBAs |
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Not sure what the context was in that article. In any case, you can use VSS
with the software initiator.
Jeff [MSFT]
"Dustin A. Lambert" <dustin@dustinlambert.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Greetings,
We are looking to setup an iSCSI based SAN with 4 clustered Windows
2003 Servers. While realizing that a gigabit NIC would handle the
job, do I have to have an HBA for iSCSI for advanced storage solutions
such as Volume Shadow Copy?
According to
http://is.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=23&ARTICLE_ID=177898
I have to have a supported HBA to do so. I cannot find anymore
information on this from Technet, etc.
Quote:
'While both types of adapters speed up iSCSI processing on the server,
Microsoft Windows treats TOE adapters very differently than iSCSI
HBAs. "An iSCSI HBA appears to Windows as a storage device, while an
iSCSI TOE card appears as a very smart NIC," says Microsoft's Adam.
"iSCSI HBAs allow booting from an iSCSI target and can take advantage
of Windows storage services." '
Any information is appreciated.
In His Peace,
Dustin Lambert |
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