{"id":268,"date":"2009-12-05T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-12-08T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T17:49:38","slug":"install-and-usage-notes-for-iscsi-with-openfiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Install and usage notes for iSCSI with Openfiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work with <a title=\"https:\/\/www.openfiler.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openfiler.com\/\">Openfiler<\/a>, a well regarded Open Source Storage Appliance Software package. With Openfiler, you can take &#8220;any old&#8221; server you have laying around and make a iSCSI, CIFS or NFS file server easily and quickly.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wiki\/HowTo:Openfiler\">Here are my notes on getting Openfiler installed and working for iSCSI.<\/a><\/strong><!--more-->Openfiler does all sorts of filer duties, like iSCSI, NFS, CFS, FTP, etc.  <strong>I&#8217;m using it as an iSCSI backend for VMware ESX and Citrix XenServer.<\/strong> This document will focus on using the iSCSI features first, and then maybe I&#8217;ll add other sections later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I don&#8217;t intend for this to duplicate the contents of the Openfiler manual.<\/strong> The Openfiler people made the basic install and configuration dead easy. Really.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a screenshot by screenshot manual, buy one from Openfiler. The Openfiler folks make their living <a title=\"https:\/\/www.openfiler.com\/buy\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openfiler.com\/buy\">selling manuals and support<\/a>. I bought one, because I think they are doing a great job. You should, too. Their manual covers basic OpenFiler operations, but doesn&#8217;t cover some of the cooler advanced features, like replication.<\/p>\n<p>As I run across configuration issues not covered in their manual, and figure out some of the advanced features, I&#8217;ll post notes here. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to do some benchmarks with OpenFiler running head to head against dedicated iSCSI arrays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work with Openfiler, a well regarded Open Source Storage Appliance Software package. With Openfiler, you can take &#8220;any old&#8221; server you have laying around and make a iSCSI, CIFS or NFS file server easily&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}