Its a miracle - mounting SCSI through Fibre?

Somehow the following has happened:

I have a MacPro with a Dual 4gb Apple LSI fibre card and a UL5D (Attotech SCSI card). Somehow my MDC is detecting a LUN coming from one of the volumes on that SCSI card. It is a weird size as well - not the full size of the raid, not even a full size of one of the drives. I know it is coming from that comp b/c when I hit LUN properties it says G-Speed and the only G-SPEED product is that SCSI array.

We have a new software product called Xtarget for OS X, which is an iSCSI Target Server for OS X. This allows you to bridge any direct attached storage over iSCSI.

You can see it in action in this YouTube video which illustrates bridging a volume to iSCSI and managing it with our SANmp software, but you could also have the LUNs managed by XSAN instead.







Caspian
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PLUST...how ell does ISCSI work compared to AFP - any better?

Hi Ian,

Xtarget bridges local storage to iSCSI only. iSCSI is a block level protocol unlike AFP, and depending on what type of work you're doing, can provide a performance benefit over AFP as well. The nature of block level iSCSI enables it to be an XSAN Pool as Andrew mentioned, and with block level performance you can get up to 3 streams of ProRes HQ over a single GbE port. We have some customers who have built iSCSI only XSANs, with one GbE port for iSCSI and another for Metadata. For lighter weight clients, this can provide a significant cost savings over FC infrastructures.

The introductory price of Xtarget is $899 for a single license. Xtarget only needs to be licensed on the computer(s) which are bridging their direct attached storage to the network. Other clients wanting to access this share will need to have a license of our iSCSI Initiator, which is $89/seat.

To reiterate, Xtarget can bridge any local storage to be visible over iSCSI, whether that be, USB, SCSI, internal SATA, eSATA, FireWire, SAS, direct attached FC, and even Thunderbolt.

You can download a FREE 14 day trial of our globalSAN Initiator / Xtarget software here:

http://www.studionetworksolutions.com/support/faq.php?pi=11&fi=51

-Caspian
Studio Network Solutions

I don't see the Xtarget demo.

So what's the next step here? I setup the xtarget server and I've got the client installed on a client. All works but you say it will work with Xsan - how do I get this part working?

Ian, my apologies I missed your update on this thread until seeing this one.

I'm assuming the volume you are trying to bridge is some previously unused storage connected over a local bus.

Are you trying to bridge the volume to iSCSI on the same system that is configured as a MetaData Controller?

It is best to bridge iSCSI volumes from a Mac not acting as an MDC.

Regards,
Caspian