April 30, 200818 yr i'm sure this can be done by command line with the right docs, but would be great to be in the GUI so everyone could take advantage.
April 30, 200818 yr Author i got my terms mixed up - you're right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI#Initiator
May 1, 200818 yr Author my understanding is it is a way of interfacing with a storage object (in the unraid world, would be a share probably) as if it was a physical disk but over ethernet cables. enterprise computing has started using it recently as a cheaper alternative to fiber channel. i have used AoE (ata over ethernet) which i understand is similar but a different protocal.
May 1, 200818 yr My understanding in Simple terms. A chunk of data space or object is made available for use with SCSI commands over IP. For the Target: Depending on implementation, this object can be a disk, partition, LVM partition or a single large file. For the Initiator, The Initiator access the Target using SCSI commands over IP protocol. To the Initiator the target appears as a raw unformatted block device (or a disk). From there you partition and format as you are used to doing to a raw disk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci750136,00.html Sort of like AOE or NDAS whereas a driver is supplied on the client and it accesses a disk remotely over the network.
May 1, 200818 yr Author Also called "poor man's SAN" agreed to some extent, but i didn't put it in those terms because i've actually seen highly available installations using it that really could rival fiber in terms of cost/benefit.
May 1, 200818 yr Also called "poor man's SAN" agreed to some extent, but i didn't put it in those terms because i've actually seen highly available installations using it that really could rival fiber in terms of cost/benefit. LOL, I agree with you... when I was at Sun that's what they liked to call it, but Sun is pretty heavily invested in Fibre Channel
May 3, 200818 yr Also called "poor man's SAN" agreed to some extent, but i didn't put it in those terms because i've actually seen highly available installations using it that really could rival fiber in terms of cost/benefit. LOL, I agree with you... when I was at Sun that's what they liked to call it, but Sun is pretty heavily invested in Fibre Channel I am excited about the possibility of iSCSI support. Thanks for working on this. I will tell you what an HP rep said, at a storage conference, iSCSI stands for "I Still Cannot Sell It." Funny, but I have used it with some success in non production environments.
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