Connect to Openfiler SAN using CHAP authentication (MS iSCSI Initiator)
Assuming that you’ve made yourself familiar with the procedure on how to allow/deny access to a specific lun based upon IP addresses, then you might have wondered if you can secure access to a LUN even more. After all, spoofing an IP address is not that hard to do, and if IP based ACL is […]
How to mount an Openfiler snapshot in Windows
After playing with Openfiler for a while, I started wondering how I could get access to a snapshot that was created with Openfiler. This is how it works (according to me, I just hope Openfiler and iSCSI Enterprise Target find another way to make this easier) On one of my LUN’s, I have created a […]
Build a free SAN with Openfiler
After playing with iSCSI Enterprise Target for a while, I decided to have a look at some other solutions as well. I’m not saying that iSCSI Enterprise Target is not a stable and mature solution, but it lacks some important features (such as snapshots). I came across OpenFiler which seems to be a good (free) […]
Connect to an iSCSI SAN from Windows
In a previous post, I’ve shown how to set up a Linux based SAN solution, based upon Fedora Core 6 and the free iSCSI Enterprise Target tool. In this post, I’ll show how to connect to the SAN from Windows First, make sure you have the Microsoft iSCSI initiatior software loaded onto your system. The […]
Create a free SAN on Fedora Core 6
While setting up the basic infrastructure for my VMWare environment, I wondered if it would be possible to emulate a SAN on a Linux box, for free. And as a matter of fact, it is possible. I stumbled across the iSCSI Target project on sourceforge which was built to do exactly that. In this post, […]
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