What is the advantage of iSCSI over SMB?
- by sofakng
At my house I'm running a Hyper-V server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM acting as a file server. Files are shared across my network using SMB. (Also, the machine is using a PERC 6/i RAID card but I don't think that's important)
I'm thinking about setting up a dedicated SAN (iSCSI) machine and then switching my Hyper-V server to ESXi.
What are the advantages of using iSCSI versus SMB?
I think I would still need a file server OS (eg. Win 2k8) sharing files via SMB so I'm not sure the end result would be any different than my current setup...