On Monday 14 July 2003 13:31, Jon Nelson wrote: > To which I replied (summarized): iSCSI has nothing to do with > hardware. and I proceeded to yammer about how iSCSI is a protocol > that essentially provides a block device over ethernet. My choice of > the word "nothing" is wrong. What I meant to say is that the actual > storage mechanism *underneath* the iSCSI provider is irrelevant, and > that *no*, a user doesn't need to go out and acquire (typically) > expensive hardware that speaks iSCSI, the user could buy cheap IDE > drives and use his or her cheap, general-purpose machine running > Linux to provide the iSCSI connectivity.
You do however need to have a iSCSI target software, which last time i checked, there were no free iSCSI target projects, and those that aren't free aren't exactly cheap either. Okapi is about the cheapest, and it's somewhere in $400/600 per target IIRC. Others are up to 10K per target. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
