On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote: >> I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo >> some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to >> export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN's > > Sorry for the thread necromancy here, but can you tell me what was > missing from Openfiler that you'd like to use? > > I'm looking down this path right now and will be sending a few related > questions to the list. > > > -- Simple, it's only a NAS device, and not really a file server / web server / data base server as well. The purposes I needed is to replace SMB on the network, and iSCSI seemed like a good alternative. The server in question is a dev server, which I thought would be beneficial to setup as an iSCSI server as well and connect other servers to it's storage, and thus consolidate the storage on it :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532