<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Got to agree with Jim. Business requirements & budget are key limits on your solution. <br><br>I know that ESXi will work, but I also know of colleagues who are using the free Citrix XenServer & Open-E Lite [ http://www.open-e.com/ ] which allows live migrations of VMs. <br><br>There is also Openfiler [ http://www.openfiler.com/openfiler-homepage ] and FreeNAS [ http://www.freenas.org/ ]<br><br><br>I'd love to recommend Proxmox but I've not seen it in wide spread use in production environments. <br><br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size:
12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mike Nolte <obiwanmikenolte@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CLUE's mailing list <clue@cluedenver.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:51 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [clue] iSCSI SAN manager software?<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1089860356">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="yiv1089860356gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Jim Ockers <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ockers@ockers.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1089860356gmail_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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.petri.co.il/iscsi-san-vmware-esx.htm">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="yiv1089860356HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ockers@ockers.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ockers.net/">http://www.ockers.net/</a>
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