On 6/28/2010 3:25 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I dont see why not. But you dont dont need openfilter to give you iscsi capability. CentOS-5.1+ has had the ability to export an iscsi target itself with all the tooling built in.
I'm not sure yet since openFiler seems to provide a few more options, if I'm not mistaken the ability to soft RAID 5/6 on multiple machines and remote block duplication. So theoretically, I'm thinking with openFiler presenting a frontend to the application servers, I could increase storage without having to mess with the application server setup.
If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage. It's an OpenSolaris/ZFS based system with web management, able to export cifs/nfs/ftp/sftp/iscsi with support for snapshots, deduplication, compression, etc. I haven't used it beyond installing in a VM and going through some options, but it looks more capable than anything else I've seen for free.