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Linux goes to swap while plenty of RAM installed

There is no problem. Even if there is still available RAM, the Linux Kernel will move memory pages which are hardly ever used into swap space. It’s good to swap out memory pages that have been ...
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iSCSI, multiple initiators for the same LUN

You need to have some sort of either a clustered file system or distributed lock manager to avoid metadata damage done to your file system with concurrent writes. There's a good summary of this ...
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Low performance both iSCSI and AoE

To squeeze maximum performance out of iSCSI connected storage you should use Jumbo Frames and MPIO (not LACP). RDMA/iSER is recommended if you can do that. AOE (ATA over Ethernet) is old and is shit....
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Is SMB safer than iSCSI for connection to a NAS?

Any online writable disk can be corrupted by a malicious software or user. Underestimating them by assuming they cannot find a file share is a mistake. Last line of defense for important data is ...
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Complete High Availability System

If you do have just one Synology box shared between your Hyper-V machines, it can still be considered as a SPoF. It dies, you lose all the LUNs sitting there. For true HA you would need a second NAS ...
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How to specify sector size for LVM logical volume?

The fileio backing store driver is the way you would accomplish this. Consistency is only a concern if you choose to enable writeback caching (or as targetcli refers to it, "buffered mode") on the ...
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Microsoft iSCSI target server 2016 failover cluster doesn't work in Server Manager after transfering roles

I see similar issue posted on technet. Is there any chance to see what does Event Log show? For the case, from my experience, Microsoft iSCSI target is too slow. Currently, I use StarWind Virtual SAN ...
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Can I mount a block device both over iSCSI and locally?

Using one drive for multiple connections without clustered file system is a suicide. Data corruption is the first that you will see after a few data iterations. You must run clustered file system to ...
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How to configure StarWind Virtual SAN Free

First off, get rid of NIC teams for your storage and synchronization networks. ISCSI networks leverage MPIO, there is no need for trunking, teaming, bonding, etc. Also, don't forget to enable MPIO in ...
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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA when booting Windows 10 from iSCSI network drive

This appears to happen when the system page file is located on the iSCSI device. While locating the page file on iSCSI worked fine under Windows 7, it appears to be broken in Windows 10. Unfortunately,...
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Slow sequential speeds on 9x7-drive raidz2 (ZFS ZoL 0.8.1)

Good question. I think your sparse zvol block size should be 128k. Your ZIO scheduler settings should all be higher, like minimum 10 and max 64. zfs_txg_timeout should be much longer. I do 15 or 30s ...
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ISCSI and Windows Server 2019

iSCSI as a protocol is not limiting performance or latency on spindle (HDD) drives. It may limit on SSD and will limit on NVMe. The performance in this case depends on: 1) Physical storage. You can ...
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"Bad message" with a new SAN using multipath and iSCSI

That is normal behavior for a non-clustered file system. To use iSCSI SAN with Ubuntu compute servers, a clustered file system should be used. You should probably learn more about GPFS, GFS2, Lustre, ...
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Is SMB safer than iSCSI for connection to a NAS?

Leaving the question of iSCSI vulnerability when using it without a clustered file system but with multiple initiators aside, I can hardly find any clear reason why file sharing protocol would be more ...
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Attach network disk as direct

iSCSI might still do the job in your case. For Windows, try Starwind VSAN which has a free version and can export your disk over iSCSI to another machine. The only thing, you do not need to create a ...
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What is better: iSCSI or NFS for mysql datadir mount?

Network filesystems and databases can be a problematic combo, and at least InnoDB does not like NFS. From the MySQL documentation If reliability is a consideration for your data, do not configure ...
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Fiber Channel (8 Gb) or iSCSI 10 Gb

iSCSI will be fine here, especially since you already have so much of the infrastructure for it. While fiber would be less susceptible to interference, a 2Gb/s difference is enough to make up for that ...
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Low performance both iSCSI and AoE

Your expectation on how Ethernet link aggregation works are incorrect. All aggregation methods other than balance-rr (ie: all methods whose mode > 0) do not give you a greater single-connection ...
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How can I convert a iSCSI system disk from XenServer to another format

To get disk image do P2V and/or V2V: attach iSCSI to Windows by ISCSI initialtor. create VHDX using Disk2vhd (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx) convert VHDX to QCOW ...
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How to connect two Dell storage arrays to a to a Dell Poweredge server (daisy chain vs direct)?

You can stack the MD unit that way; (In the image its 3 MD, but you can see how) For your openmanage question, yes, it can be used remotly, but be sure to set the routing correctly in the management ...
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only one of two SFP ports reachable on iSCSI SAN

Never use LACP or any other kind of network aggregation for iSCSI networks unless it was required by your SAN vendor. Use MPIO (Multipathing) instead.  Generally speaking, teaming creates a network ...
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How can I determine if an iscsi device is a mounted Linux filesystem?

Try iscsiadm -m session -P 3 and check the last section "Attached SCSI devices" Just FYI: If you set iscsid to start on boot you do not need to unmount/logout iSCSI partitions prior to reboot. As ...
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Windows 10 iSCSI Boot

I can suggest you two options. First option is to use Linux gPXE. It is PXE client implementation and bootloader derived from Ethernet. I’ve heard about this solution a couple of times already, but ...
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Can I mount a block device both over iSCSI and locally?

Short answer: Don't do that Long answer: to double-mount a block device on two different machines, you need to use a cluster filesystem, as OCFS or GFS2. On the other hand, EXT4 is not a clustered ...
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Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V SAN Configuration

Unless you're planning to do sort of a failover cluster with a pass-thru disks (and you're unlikely...) you need to wrap a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) on top of your shared LUN. Use Cluster Shared ...
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Synology HA active-passive performance and failover

Decouple your Synology HA setup, RMA one of these units with "Your HA does not work!", and get VMware or similar vSAN to enjoy local disk performance, and reliability. Whatever you'll do you won't ...
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How to find whether the disk is thin provisioned or not?

This is wrong command. You need to traverse back your mount point to iSCSI name/ address etc and query target with this name in mind. Get-IscsiVirtualDisk cmdlet is what you need. https://docs....
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How to easily share local partitions between multiple computers

In order to share local partitions across multiple host, you need to make its file system shared. Having a single iSCSI LUN formatted to NTFS/ext4/whatever file system will lead to data corruption in ...
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Why can't I make a failover cluster using iSCSI for shared storage?

Take something like Starwinds and create Highly Available shared storage with your two nodes. AFAIR, they have a lot of manuals which may help you. BTW, it's for free. https://www.starwindsoftware....
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Why has open-iscsi two times slower writes than Samba via 10G Ethernet?

First of all, the RAID-6 is the problem because of the double parity calculation. Secondly, you can connect iSCSI target twice in MS iSCSI Initiator, enable RR or Least Queue Depth (unfortunately, ...
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