Jim,<div><br></div><div>As always when planning something like this, I think that the answer will depend on how you want to connect, available hardware, budget, DR requirements, and what kind of capabilities you want from your file system.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you're looking for an open-source solution, FreeNAS is good. I used ESXi with a FreeNAS backend for a while, though I eventually moved from ESXi to Proxmox.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Jim Ockers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net" target="_blank">ockers@ockers.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="+1"><tt>Hi CLUEbies,<br>
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I haven't worked on small-scale big-iron IT capabilities like
homebrewed SAN for a couple of years so I feel out of the loop. We are
setting up VMware ESX and need a homebrewed Linux SAN. This article
<a href="http://www.petri.co.il/iscsi-san-vmware-esx.htm" target="_blank">http://www.petri.co.il/iscsi-san-vmware-esx.htm</a> suggests OpenFiler,
which seems like it might work.<br>
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Is OpenFiler what we should use? Does anyone out there in CLUE-land
have a different suggestion? I've used Linux IET (iSCSI enterprise
target) before and it worked fine so we like the idea of iSCSI.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Jim<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (<a href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net" target="_blank">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a href="http://www.ockers.net/" target="_blank">http://www.ockers.net/</a>
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