iSCSI Initiator

[macastronomer]

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Storage Engineer here. Sorry, but FiberChannel rules the enterprise.

I can tell you're one of the more experienced IT guys. It's easy to get stuck in the familiar. I wish I could share a talk that Eric Schmidt just gave at my workplace as he hits on this subject specifically. However, with the increase in network speeds and the versatility of iSCSI, in about five years any talk about FC is going to be reduced to, "What kind of card is this?" "Oh that's an old fiber channel card. Just toss it." And the people who would have disagreed will be retiring anyway.

 

[unplugme71]

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Storage Engineer here. Sorry, but FiberChannel rules the enterprise.

Yup, that's what 99% of our storage is too and we have almost 100PB currently. However, its not affordable to most businesses. Just a damn SFP can cost them $900 alone.

 

[donlab]

I can tell you're one of the more experienced IT guys. It's easy to get stuck in the familiar. And the people who would have disagreed will be retiring anyway.

I disagree. The future is anyone's guess. Get off my lawn.

 

[unplugme71]

Now that ESXi 6.0 works on 2012+ mac mini's, I would probably recommend installing ESXi - then connect your Synology or other storage via iSCSI. Then provide that storage to OS X in a virtual machine. It's completely free. The other advantage is, if your OS X install ever fails, you can spin up a new VM and move that disk over while restoring the original virtual machine.

 

[al404]

Any news for free iSCSI or on El capitan supporting it?

 

[SNS Tech]

Any news for free iSCSI or on El capitan supporting it?

 

[SNS Tech]

SNS GlobalSAN iSCSI initiator for El Capitan is only $89 USD. Student and bulk purchase discounts are also available.

 

[yabba235]

Free cmd line version of ATTO ISCSI initoator works very well on El Capitan Beta 3, so don't need buyind any else software.
Here is path to working solution:
https://justus.berlin/2014/01/droboshare-dashboard-for-mac-includes-free-xtend-san-iscsi-initiator-kind-of/.
Unfortunately, git version of iscsi initiator from:https://github.com/iscsi-osx/iSCSIInitiator
half work on El Capitan:
- finder appears error code -36 windows, so impossible is write/read any large files on a few kb size.

 

[sethsn]

It's sad to note that, 3 years later, this is still true!

KernSafe solution doesn't work — their .kext isn't signer and Mavericks/Yosemite refuses to load it:
and

 

[sethsn]

Actually you may both be right. FCOE could be the way forward - benefits from the stronger fiber channel protocol and cheaper ethernet transport.

$0.02

I can tell you're one of the more experienced IT guys. It's easy to get stuck in the familiar. I wish I could share a talk that Eric Schmidt just gave at my workplace as he hits on this subject specifically. However, with the increase in network speeds and the versatility of iSCSI, in about five years any talk about FC is going to be reduced to, "What kind of card is this?" "Oh that's an old fiber channel card. Just toss it." And the people who would have disagreed will be retiring anyway.

 

[tex77]

DAEMON Tools for Mac ($20) has an iSCSI Initiator ($50), so $70 together.
I found this on "Using iSCSI to store your Apple Photos library on a Synology NAS"
http://www.theghostbit.com/2016/04/using-iscsi-to-store-your-apple-photos.html