Yesterday I heard about openfiler "Openfiler consolidates several open source technologies on the Linux 2.6 kernel base to deliver a comprehensive storage management solution that meets the needs of enterprise applications, users and administrators." (from openfiler website).
I always wanted to play with iSCSI but didn't have any appliance to play with it but with openfiler i just needed another PC. But then since I had just one PC I came up with the following idea.
Install VMWare-server 1.0.5 on my laptop (Dell Vostro 1500) running Slackware 12.0 installed openfiler on the VMWare (VM image available on openfiler's website), and also cerated a M$ windows XP VM. Then installed iSCSI initiators on my Slackware 12.0 using the open-iSCSI project and on the win XP i installed Microsofts iSCSI intiator. Then mounted iSCSI targets from openfiler on Slackware and XP, made several I/O operations.
In my tests I olso tried to expand a published iSCSI disc. However this was not possible through the web-UI but was able to expand the disk via the commandline interface by using the "lvextend" command as openfiler uses LVM for it's disk management. But I had to restart the iSCSI service to have the change visible to the iSCSI initiators.
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About Me
- Jurgen H
- Started my interest in PC when i was 7, writing simple applications with basic on the ZX spectrum. Later i also did some programs in Pascal .Afterwards I purchased my first personal PC a Pentium 133 on which i installed red hat 5.2 as first Linux distribution. In the next years I went with Red Hat until version 7.0 which came with a bugged compiler leading to unstable system since i compiled the kernel for my system. This lead me to switch to Slackware wich I'm currently still using. Now I'm a Sys Admin, and in my free time I still do some development in Java and PHP.
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