NetWare 6.5 / iSCSI

[marvhuffaker]

Attended NetWare 6.5 First Class today. Worked with iSCSI briefly.

Very Cool Stuff. You can essentially create a very low cost SAN and/or Cluster on existing hardware (Without buying a SAN or dedicated cluster hardware). And it all works over TCP/IP on your existing infrastructure.

Referred to as "The poor man SAN" by Novell instructor, however the methodologies have a global scope and could be scaled to very expensive hardware too.



Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[summoner]

I have a netware 6 box with 2 scsi arrays that I use for all my storage. Eventually I'd like to pick up 2 low cost servers,cluster them and use my current nw6 box as an iSCSI SAN backend. Nice technology novell chose to implement...I can stop looking for good deals on fiber channel.