Thanks for the clarification, this lets me know what we need to do. The specific situation is that each .img file contains a VMware virtual machine. We can work around this by suspending the VMs and backing up from the host systems. To be a little more specific- Can a .img file be safely backed up f...

Question about backing up .img files- If we want to back up a .img file (as opposed to .ibv), does StarWind work with the MS Volume Shadow Copy service so that this can be done without stopping the iSCSI client that may be accessing that file? Or is it a best practice to be sure that in the case of ...

Thanks! I thought that would be the case and I wasn't sure why MS has a prohibition against it, since initiators work at the IP level (unless they are doing something odd with theirs). It is also odd since they support using their initiator within a virtual machine under Virtual Server 2005 R2, whic...

Greetings, We are currently implementing a iSCSI SAN using fast commodity hardware and Intel network adapters. We have recently purchased StarWind. We are using a Intel PRO/1000 Quad-port PCI express network card in the iSCSI target running StarWind. We are connecting all four ports to a dedicated g...