From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 12:07:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6188A106566C for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:07:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from D.Forsyth@ru.ac.za) Received: from a.mail.ru.ac.za (a.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8118FC0C for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:07:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from D.Forsyth@ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:51429) by a.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MDddh-000K9V-Ny; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:07:45 +0200 Received: from iwdf-5.iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.28]) by iwr.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MDddh-000PXH-Mz; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:07:45 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" Organization: IWR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:07:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4A2D1B31.26776.ED3DE30@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20090608120030.7F44E106568E@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090608120030.7F44E106568E@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: a.mail.ru.ac.za (146.231.129.33) Cc: friedrich.locke@gmail.com Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d.forsyth@ru.ac.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:07:49 -0000 > Message: 22 > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:10:50 -0300 > From: Friedrich Locke > Subject: SAN FreeBSD Server > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear gentleman, > > i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server > solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. > Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server > (i.e., i mean as a target)? indeed it is as others have said. However, if all you need is a bunch of disk space accessible over the network, then FreeNAS would be a lot simpler to setup and maintain. Based on FreeBSD, iSCSI service built in, WEbGUI interface (but you can ssh in if you want to). one caveat, don't use it with USB external drives as it will lose connections as soon as you mount the 2nd USB drive. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/