Have an old machine laying around you could install nexenta or freenas on? You could use the software RAID Then you could practice connecting iscsi
Julian Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind of way... On Aug 31, 2013, at 8:48 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Ok, here's something I've never tried but have been thinking about testing.. > > Have a whitebox ESXI that just runs basic test services for me.. Xeon > E3-1275v2 processor, 32G, etc. Anyway, storage right now is just a single > SATA 2TB Re4. No desperate data on there so I just acronis it off weekly. > > But I'm debating this now.. getting a VMWare certified RAID controller is a > sucky proposition in re-opening this box where it's at. I've seen people > report mixed results using an eSATA RAID device - which should be completely > transparent to the OS.. > > Anyone try or thoughts? I figured I might grab a mid-level RAID-1 eSATA > device and give it a go..
