Openfiler and iSCSI
As mentioned yesterday, I wanted to try out using Openfiler as my iSCSI target. So, today I downloaded the Openfiler Virtual Appliance and gave it a test run. Turns out Openfiler is great! I had it set up in just a few minutes, and it's integration into our Active Directory structure really makes it a very viable candidate for my iSCSI project. My Windows desktop machines had no problems connecting to my iSCSI shared disk, basically it worked just as good as my tests with Debian and iSCSI Enterprise Target with the added bonus of a great web interface for configuration as well as other share types besides iSCSI. Ding, Ding, I think we have a winner and thanks to the Virtual Appliance setup testing is really easy. Openfiler also has great documentation for their product, which also makes configuring it a breeze.Post metadata
Published February 27, 2007 11:46
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Tagged with computing, iscsi, linux, microsoft, openfiler, storage, virtualization, VMWare and windows
January 1, 1970 1:00am
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April 13, 2007 12:34am
Hi, great to hear of your success. Been playing around with the appliance and am having issues getting the chap authentication to work in vista talking to openfiler.
Any secrets in how you set that up?
Jamie
April 13, 2007 10:06am
No secrets here, as far as I was concerned it was pretty much plug and play.
May 6, 2007 1:41am
Any followup on how well OpenFiler is working for you?