free iscsi target software for testing?

Lanz · 14 Sep 2009 at 15:48

Can anyone recommend a free iscsi target app that I can use for testing? Doesnt have to be fast or anything, just need to offer up iscsi LUNs to test clustering.

cheers

Lanz · 14 Sep 2009 at 15:54

Thanks

Ideally I need it to work with an old LSI Megaraid SCSI Raid controller, as that's what the box I want to use has.

Lanz · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:27

We have just bought a 48TB Sun Storage system using this, but it's not going to get installed for a few weeks, and I wanted to test iscsi before then.

Not sure about Opensolaris, I've not got a clue how to use Unix/Linux so I think i'll try the Openfiler, as that looks good for noobs.

Lanz · 14 Sep 2009 at 18:13

This is what we have bought

http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/7310/

It was very cheap compared to everything else, I'm a little worried how it'll perform. We might end up just using it for CCTV video and departmental data. Not sure it'll work well for VM's.

Lanz · 14 Sep 2009 at 20:42

Thanks for the info. We are going to use Hyper-V R2 with VMM08R2, but i'll check out the simulator on a workstation.

We have about 20 Server VMs at the moment (and counting...), but not all of them require HA, so only maybe only 10 will end up on the NAS for now.

I'm a little concerned about the 4 x Gbit links on the NAS, as we'll only end up using 2Gbit, as we need 1 for management and 1 for intersite replication. 2GB seems like a small pipe to me when you have VMs, CCTV and maybe departmental shares all coming from it.