MicroNugget: How to Set Up a Free iSCSI SaN

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In this video, Tim Warner covers setting up a free iSCSI SAN. Before he gets to walking you through the setup and initial configuration process for using Starwind Software's free iSCSI software, Tim starts by covering all the essential facts and information of SAN technologies and iSCSI implementations.

The question of whether or not software iSCSI SAN servers are ready for production environments is ongoing, and Tim doesn't take it up in this video. The things you'll learn in this video are intended to help you create a testing or dev environment, one where you can practice for Microsoft certifying exams — or where you can test SAN deployments before going live with one of your own.

SANs are block- and network-based storage technologies that are increasingly used to provide failover clusters and provide high availability to servers and services. They're particularly useful because they operate at the block level — much closer to the disk cluster than upper-level protocols used by network-attached storage. To practice with them, there are a few free options — Windows Server 2012 includes a free iSCSI server instance, and FreeNAS and Starwind Software also provide viable, free products. Here, you'll see how to harness Starwind Software's iSCSI offering.

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