You make a good point about the juice it sucks and heat. I was just going to use these old servers as a backup location on DPM (which won't use NAS it has to be shown as a local drive thus iSCSI). I'll do a Google search to see if DPM lets you use an external and if it does then - problem solved. If not then I'll be giving FreeNAS a try.
Thanks, Josh From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Iscsi from old server Look into FreeNas. Its BSD based, so I think you are going to lose openmanage, but the OS will run off of a Flash Drive. I installed and ran it once, I had a P3 933, about 8 IDE Drives in RAID 0 array for a totals storage size of about 200 GB. It worked, made a great ISCSI target. It was slow as could possibly be (5400RPM Drives) . After I thought about how much juice it was sucking, and heat it was producing, I threw it in the trash and went out and bought a USB External drive. But it was COOL ! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Iscsi from old server Yes, but if I do this I loose about 20GB on each server for the OS, and I still have no iSCSI target. This would be ok (not great) if I knew how to setup these servers as iSCSI targets. ,Josh From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Iscsi from old server If they're Dell servers wouldn't you continue to run Openmanage on them? ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Iscsi from old server I'd like to make a couple of old server into iSCSI targets. Anyone know of a good way to do this and keep the accountability that comes with Dell Openmanage software? I don't really want to go back down to nothing but storage on these servers unless there is a way that I can still be alerted in case of a hardware failure. Thanks, Josh ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
