We are going to create a drive that appears to the Windows 2000 operating system as a regular hard disk drive; however, this drive is actually a filesystem on a GNU/Linux box that is exported via TCP/IP using the iSCSI protocol. We created the server to do this in this article. Now, we need to […]

You will see another license agreement box: If you agree, click Agree. You will be notified that the iSCSI initiator is installing: A box regarding the digital signature of the package will pop up: Click Yes if you wish to continue. If the iSCSI initiator installs successfully, you will see this box: A box with […]

You will see a dialog box saying the installation is complete: Click close. Open the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator program. There should be a shortcut on your desktop. If not, it is also in control panel. Open the Add Target Portal tab: The server we want is at 10.50.100.70. Click on the advanced button: The user […]

You will see the name of the target in the box: Click Log On to connect to the drive and make it active. You will see a dialog: For now, just leave automatic restore option unchecked. Click OK. Now the available target box has the target listed as connected: Click OK and go into the […]

Our drive is detected properly now, and we have 3 gigs of unallocated space: Format the disk: If you want the drive to automatically be available at boot, check the box: Let’s copy a file over to our iSCSI drive: This drive is treated just like a hardware drive would be, but it is all […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 FreeNAS is a very compact and free (as in BSD) CIFS, NFS, and FTP server with RAID 0, 1, 5 support, and a web administration GUI. Believe it or not the whole install is 16 megs. To […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Here is the second question that you answer “y” to if you are very confident you don’t have any devices you want the data on hooked up to this system: Now, perhaps you are familiar with the […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 When the system comes back up, it should list the correct interface, as well as the default LAN IP address: Choose option 2 to set the LAN IP address and subnet mask: Reboot again to make sure […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 To test this, we are going to set up CIFS and create a share off of a disk device. First off, we will configure CIFS, and change the workgroup to something different (remote1 in this example). Make […]

There was only one choice we could find for a Mac iSCSI initiator. It is available from ATTO Technology. We used the iSCSI target we set up in this article, which is a GNU/Linux box running a 2.6 Linux kernel. Of course, iSCSI is a standard, so any iSCSI target should work as well. The […]

>1< | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Nexenta sells a software based NAS and iSCSI solution that is built on their Open Source NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris project. OK. This is getting pretty cool. As crankish users of GNU/Linux as a designation on NetAdminTools for many years, it is nice to see Stallman’s […]

1 | >2< | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 There is a license agreement: The registration code comes back via email quickly: The machine signature stays the same with repeated installs, so if you want to start over, just re-extract the VMware image and reinstall. Select a different IP address if needed. The […]

1 | 2 | >3< | 4 | 5 | 6 Set passwords: The disks were set up as part of the VM: The disks show up on the left pane. Set up your volume: There are many different options for accessing the volume, including iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, FTP, RSYNC, and WebDAV: 1 | 2 […]

1 | 2 | 3 | >4< | 5 | 6 Review and save changes: Here is the Data Management, Runners area showing an error that the NTP server we chose isn’t available: Here is the first part of the status page (we scrunched it to show half): Here is the second half of the […]

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | >5< | 6 There is an awesome Ajax terminal: NexentaStor has syncing services: Snapping service: Tiering: Here is the output of top from an SSH session: PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 6938 admin 5148K 3188K sleep 59 0 0:00:10 2.1% bash/1 710 […]

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | >6< A peek around the filesystem and the kernel: admin@nex1:/$ ls bin dev export initrd media opt root system var boot devices files kernel mnt platform sbin tmp volumes cdrom etc home lib net proc srv usr admin@nex1:/$ ls sbin autopush in.mpathd netstrategy runlevel umount […]