iStorage Server is a network based storage virtualization software powered by KernSafe Technologies, Inc. Being a powerful, full-featured and software-only iSCSI Target SAN solution, that can quickly convert existing Windows computer into IP SAN. Storage media of iSCSI Target can include existing storage devices such as the entire hard disks or partitions, CD-RWs, tapes and USB storage devices, as well as disk image file or CD image files including ISO9660(,iso), .bin, .mdf, .cdi, .b5i, .nrg, .ccd, .sub, .img, .raw and other image file formats. Furthermore, iStorage Server also supports a lot of features such as: VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) target, snapshots, STPI, RAID-1 and failover, these features are very important and poplar in storage industry world and make iStorage Server is suitable for any size of business.
Citrix Xen Server™ is the only enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform that delivers the critical features of live migration and centralized multi-server management at no cost. Xen Server is an open and powerful server virtualization solution that radically reduces datacenter costs by transforming static and complex datacenter environments into more dynamic, easy to manage IT service delivery centers.
This article demonstrates how iStorage Server works under XenServer. Such powerful combination will expand the application scope of your virtual server, thereby enabling WINDOWS server to expand the storage of your virtualized server. It also allows you to directly use the storage devices of the existing Windows server for XenServer. With IP SAN solution provided by iStorage Server, you may set up operating systems, install applications and server softwares, as well as store data required by your virtual machines. Your XenServer storage can be expanded in the following 3-most-commonly-used ways:
After iStorage Server 2.0, it supports server side mirroring, synchronous replication and failover which allows user to create a high-availability iSCSI SAN for Citrix XenServer.