iSCSI with Suzanne and Shiv from the Storage Team

So we have been talking a lot iSCSI as we think that this is a really cool technology for people that want a really inexpensive solution for building a flexible storage solution in their data center.

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Adam ( that guy is everywhere ) interviewed Suzanne and Shiv from the storage team about iSCSI and raised a number of questions

  1. How does iSCSI scale compared to other solutions
  2. How do you have TCP bandwidth issues with iSCSI
  3. How do you deal with dropped connections in iSCSI
  4. What can be configured with iSCSI
  5. What are the enhancements with iSCSI in Windows Server 2008
  6. Do I need hard drives on my server 2008 machines with iSCSI
  7. Do SCSI configuration go away iSCSI
  8. What is the process of connecting to iSCSI
  9. Is there tuning available for iSCSI
  10. Could I connect to iSCSI storage over the Internet
  11. How do I know that iSCSI is running well in my environment
  12. When do my iSCSI disks become available at boot time
  13. How does Hyper-V work with iSCSI
  14. Where can I go for vendor support ( iSCSI targets).......
  15. Where do I go to get started with iSCSI