FreeNAS and iscsi
Wow.
So what do you do when you want to use the network for storage, but don't have $100,000 to spend on servers and software? FreeNAS and Microsoft's iSCSI initiator. It's up and running in a VM of all things. Wow!
FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based distro that essentially does better than most commercial implementation of NAS software that I've experienced. There's some initial command-based setup, essentially to get the IP address onto the box, and then it's all a beautifully simple and elegant web-based system. You can tack on FTP, SMB, a host of others, and of cours, iSCSI. Wow!
After setting up the drive, you simply put in your extent (or if needs be, multiple extents from multiple drives that then get added to a "device"), set the target, and you're off to the races. The iSCSI initiator from Microsoft (this was on a 2003 R2 SP2 Box with the 2.06 initiator) picks it right up. I haven't yet had a chancce to see about using FreeNAS's LDAP and how well that works, but it should do pretty good if the iSCSI is anything to go on!
So what do you do when you want to use the network for storage, but don't have $100,000 to spend on servers and software? FreeNAS and Microsoft's iSCSI initiator. It's up and running in a VM of all things. Wow!
FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based distro that essentially does better than most commercial implementation of NAS software that I've experienced. There's some initial command-based setup, essentially to get the IP address onto the box, and then it's all a beautifully simple and elegant web-based system. You can tack on FTP, SMB, a host of others, and of cours, iSCSI. Wow!
After setting up the drive, you simply put in your extent (or if needs be, multiple extents from multiple drives that then get added to a "device"), set the target, and you're off to the races. The iSCSI initiator from Microsoft (this was on a 2003 R2 SP2 Box with the 2.06 initiator) picks it right up. I haven't yet had a chancce to see about using FreeNAS's LDAP and how well that works, but it should do pretty good if the iSCSI is anything to go on!
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