Globalsan Iscsi Initiator For Os X
Grey Blog: Very good information. I downloaded globalSAN iscsi and I could not find any documentation where the app launcher is!!
Can't believe windows has it nativeli and OSX even with Lion doesn't provide it. Download the legacy iSCSI initiator from GlobalSAN.
I use freeNAS 0.70. It now (did not in the past) allow time machine backups on both AFP, SMB,NFS, ZFS. Although worth noting that AFP is twice as fast as a protocol with OSX as any mentioned, even i-scsi. I do have a question, remote formatting is allowed on the host machine? Not an issue with me though using freenas. I do have Solaris 5.10 on a PC but doing this sort of thing is way too much of an education for me.
Again thank you! Glad you liked it.
As you can see in the screenshots, GlobalSAN has no app launcher: it just uses a custom preference pane that you can access by launching the System Preferences application. From there, you'll be able to register your iSCSI targets, mount them and unmount them.
I'm aware that Time Machine can use unsupported volume types such as NFS and CIFS: if Time Machine supported NFS, it would be an incredibly easy configuration to setup and go. However, since I prefer having it use a supported volume type, I've decided to rely on publishing a ZFS Volume as an iSCSI target. I recognize that it's a more complex setup but, as far as I can tell, it's worth the effort. When you mount an iSCSI volume with the GlobalSAN initiator, Mac OS X will see it as a local drive: thus you'll be able to use Disk Utilities to format it with HFS+.
In fact, that's what Time Machine actually does when using such a volume for the first time. I'm not suggesting you drop FreeNAS, of course, however, if you're at least familiar with a ZFS-enabled Solaris, I encourage you try it to build your storage server. I greatly appreciate ZFS features, its clean administrative model and its ease of use. You might also want to try OpenIndiana, Nexenta and NexentaStor as alternatives. You're welcome, Grey.
Thanks Andrew, you're absolutely right. It seems that, as soon as the GlobalSAN initiator had some success, they changed the licensing model. I never updated this post, and it's good you posted your comment.
Needless to say, I'm not going to pay that license for such a home-user scenario. It's a pity, because it was great to have that possibility. Instead, since Lion broke the last free version of the GlobalSAN initiator, I'm performing few Time Machine backups on an external drive and switched to a heavier use of rsync against the same ZFS datasets, published using NFS.
I made a small Cocoa GUI for rsync, which is not production-ready yet, but I'll surely post about it in the near future. Hello, Just followed your guide (at least parts of it), and got everything up and running.
The main issue I had in the end was the inability to update the size of the final formatted disk. Resizing the ZFS volume and LU wasn't very difficult, and a simple disconnect/reconnect of the iSCSI target updated the size of the disk (iSCSI disk) on my mac.
From here I couldn't get the formatted disk to update in size, no matter what i tried. Decreasing it in size worked fine, as well as increasing it, but only up to the original size of the disk. This problem made me realize this solution wasn't for me, since the main thing I wanted was the ability to easily add another disk or two when I ran low on disk space.
Just a heads up for everyone. Loved the guide though!
Xtarget is an iSCSI storage server installed with globalSAN v.5. Pdf hb 195 2002 the australian earth building handbook pdf. Xtarget allows your Mac to act as an iSCSI target. For example, you can turn FireWire, USB, eSATA, and other drives into SAN storage by using your Mac to act as the storage server. A timed trial of Xtarget is available.
(To safely share Xtarget’s storage with multiple computers, you must use SANmp/iSANmp or Xsan.) The Initiator license is separate from the Xtarget license. A HASP/USB key must be ordered separately to fully license the Xtarget storage server.