Ejecting the iSCSI Targets on the Mac. The best practice for using virtual drives would be to eject the iSCSI drive and disconnect from the target prior to the Mac Computer going to sleep, or having the Seagate NAS hibernate it's hard drives. Eject the iSCSI Target from Finder or from its icon on the Desktop. Open the globalSAN iSCSI Initiator. Part.2 Format iSCSI target on Windows Now that the iSCSI target has been successfully connected, the iSCSI target will be displayed as an Unallocated Disk on Windows. Next, you will need to make the disk online and format it before you can start using it as a local disk to store data. Requirements for setting up a host. These system and network requirements must be met before. Note: On a Mac OS host, the Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator will not log into the iSCSI storage if no vdisk0 is configured on the target (iSCSI interface). We recommend that you to create a unique iSCSI interface, create an iSCSI resource on this iSCSI interface, and provide access to the Mac OS host. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
There was only one choice we could find for a Mac iSCSI initiator. It is available from ATTO Technology. We used the iSCSI target we set up in this article, which is a GNU/Linux box running a 2.6 Linux kernel. Of course, iSCSI is a standard, so any iSCSI target should work as well. The install of the client is pretty easy. *Warning* The install appeared to delete some of our user profile settings like our mail and bookmarks, customized toolbar, stuff like that, so back up your home directory before you install it. Perhaps this was due to something else we did, but this happend the first reboot after the install. Enter the adminsitrator password when asked:
Click next a couple times to finish up the installation:
Start up the Xtend SAN application and enter the IP address of the target. There are no chap settings like there are with some other initiators, so you can’t set a password on the iSCSI target. Click discover, and the target should show up:
Click add and target status will show. If you want the drive to persist between reboots, choose auto login:
Mac OS X will now detect the drive and ask if you want to initialize it:
Here is the volume after we partitioned it:
The drive shows up like any other drive:
To make a backup of the system:
We don’t have the luxury of gigabit in our lab, so we used 100 Mbit. These settings worked much better than default over the slower connection:
Note that although we enabled CRC32C on HeaderDigest and DataDigest on the target, the initiator didn’t seem to enable it. Also, a note about stability. Before we tweaked the default settings the Mac OS X system would lock up hard. Granted, we are using a nonstandard, almost silly means of connection; however, do beware of the implications of having a device that the O/S expects to be hardware but isn’t. It is the beauty and downfall of iSCSI. This is a relatively new technology. The fact that the only real option for a Mac OS X initiator is the ATTO one shows how immature this technology is. Also, the target software is quite new as well, so it may be that the blame for the lockups with default settings can be shared by the target software.
globalSAN – The iSCSI Initiator for macOS/OS X
The globalSAN® iSCSI Initiator enables Mac computers to connect to practically any iSCSI storage target, using standard GbE or 10GbE hardware.
iSCSI is a network protocol standard that enables the transport of block-level I/O over TCP/IP. One major advantage of iSCSI is that it can work over your existing Ethernet infrastructure. Depending on the speed of your network, an iSCSI-based storage area network (SAN) can rival the performance of a Fibre Channel SAN, and can cost far less to implement.
In an iSCSI SAN, an initiator is needed on each computer that requires access to the networked storage. An initiator is not included with the purchase of a Mac, so we created globalSAN to bring iSCSI to your Mac.
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