How to Attach your Mac Mini or G4 Cube to an iSCSI SAN Storage Array
'Insanely Great!' You may recall hearing that exclamaton in the early 1980s, frequentlyuttered by IT visionary Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple (née Apple Computer, Inc.)whenever he saw anything that was.. well, insanely great. Mu commander for mac.
I was reminded of that expression today when I installed the ATTO Technologies Xtend SANiSCSI software initiator on my trusty Mac G4 Cube and began serving highly available storagefrom my DataCore SANmelody SAN.
November 6, 2019: Version 5.3.1.583 of the globalSAN iSCSI initiator with support for macOS Catalina is now released.To upgrade, launch globalSAN and click the Check for Updates button under the globalSAN logo. October 23, 2019: A preview build of the globalSAN iSCSI initiator with support for macOS Catalina is available, and an automatic update will be pushed in the coming days. Before you start to use the iSCSI target service, make sure you have created an iSCSI target with a LUN on the NAS and installed the correct iSCSI initiator for your OS. About Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator: ATTO's Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X allows Mac users to utilize and benefit from iSCSI. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.x to 10.6.x. GlobalSAN iSCSI initiator is a network protocol standard that enables the transport of block-level I/O over TCP/IP. When deployed over a Gigabit or 10-Gigabit Ethernet network, an iSCSI-based. KernSafe iSCSI Initiator X is an iSCSI initiator software for Apple Mac OS X (Free license available). With the benefits of iSCSI technology, iSCSI initiator X can export an SAN device to local Mac OS X machine include: Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Server, Mac Mini and even MacBook Pro. On a Mac OS host, the Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator will not log into the iSCSI storage if no vdisk0 is configured on the target (iSCSI interface). We recommend that you to create a unique iSCSI interface, create an iSCSI resource on this iSCSI interface, and provide access to the Mac OS host.
Mac gaming pc. Suddenly, my otherwise isolated G4 Cube has access to a large pool of mirrored storage,complete with snapshots for implementing automatic nightly and weekly backups.
In this cookbook, I will describe the hardware and software and also walk through theconfiguration with screenshots.
SANmelody Software Turns PC Servers into a SAN Storage Arrays
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Let's begin by talking about my storage environment. I'm a full-time employee ofDataCore Software Corporation and as such,I have built a complete lab to showcase my company's products. My SAN or Storage Area Networkis based entirely on DataCore's SANmelody™software running on commodity servers with their direct attached storage. This unique softwarepackage converts those servers into SAN storage arrays offering both iSCSI and Fibre ChannelSAN connections.
