Anything cheaper than starwind?

firehawk · 23 May 2012 at 16:22

So, my trial is running out for this software - for iSCSI on VM environment.

it is around $2000 to buy the licence (without support)

im wondering if there is an alternate/cheaper way of doing what I am doing:

created a cluster environment using WS2008 R2. with this, you need some disks (quorom etc... etc...) and the way I was able to do this was creating some virtual HDD's using the starwind software on a VSAN machine (Virtual machine purely for the SAN)

must be software based....

Thanks!

firehawk · 23 May 2012 at 17:20

er no. must be Windows based

firehawk · 24 May 2012 at 13:25

yes the iSCSI initiator is what I am using but obviously you need a server to connect to which contains the disks....
... the starwind software im referring to hosts these virtual disks and makes them "available" for the iSCSI initiator to connect to

firehawk · 24 May 2012 at 20:06

its purely because the whole solution must be Windows based and dont want to dig into anything that requires other resources/training/whatever etc...

firehawk · 24 May 2012 at 22:32

yeh its a test system. iSCSI software target software? is that not the iSCSI initiator? (included in WS2008+)