Storage Networking
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iSCSI vs NFS vs SMB: Choosing a Storage Protocol
This comparison explains how iSCSI, NFS and SMB differ in filesystem ownership, locking, path redundancy, security and failure behavior.
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iSCSI Troubleshooting: Login, Timeout and Path Errors
A layered method for iSCSI faults: portal reachability, discovery, login, ACL and CHAP mismatches, MTU stalls, and the timers that decide when I/O fails.
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What Is an iSCSI LUN? Targets, Initiators and MPIO
An iSCSI LUN is the address of a logical unit in a target. Learn how initiators, IQNs, CHAP and MPIO fit together, and why MPIO is not link aggregation.