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) […]