ISCSI is a network storage protocol that allows sending and receiving of SCSI commands over a TCP/IP network. This allows you to leverage Ethernet, a low cost network medium to get SAN performance and network based storage. While you can use pretty much any Ethernet switch, I’d recommend that if you’re going to use iSCSI that you dedicate a switch to it, or use quality switches and build a dedicated VLAN for your iSCSI traffic. Recently, I’ve recently been seeing a lot of traffic about whether or not you can use iSCSI with Mac OS X. The answer, yes. As with Xsan, to get started with iSCSI you’ll need an initiator and a target. Slushatj pesnyu ya pomnyu vecher vipusknoj ti provozhal menya domoj.

The Mac OSX GlobalSAN iSCSI initiator is unable to see drive after connecting. Cause: An iSCSI target can be created on the server and connected from a Mac. Download Xtarget iSCSI Target Server Software for Mac OS X and try it free for 30 days! Please contact us if you need more storage for Xtarget or a complete iSCSI or Fibre Channel storage system for Mac or Windows. Complete the form below to download globalSAN Xtarget for Mac OS X. GlobalSAN iSCSI Initiator.

Studio Network Solutions (SNS) provides a software-based iSCSI initiator called globalSAN that can be downloaded and used free of charge from. Alternatively you can also look into the, which runs about $200 for 1 user with volumes discount slashing the prices to about $90 for 100 users. Software based initiators will use the CPU of your system and a built-in or third party standard Ethernet port, but you can also buy a dedicated card which will offload the processing power to the card, which in some cases will be required for various performance reasons. For the purpose of this article we’re going to use the SNS globalSAN software.

For the purposes of this howto, we’re using the free version of software called. However, we’ve also tested LeftHand, Isilon, OpenFiler, iSCSI Target (from Microsoft) and many others (including dozens of appliances) with the Mac. So for starters, fire up your iSCSI storage and share it out.

Next, extract the installer as seen in the globalSAN installer screenshot. GlobalSAN Installer Next, launch the installer and click on the Continue button at the Welcome screen. GlobalSAN Welcome Screen At the Software License Agreement screen, read the licensing agreement and then click on the Continue button if you agree to the terms. GlobalSAN License Agreement Screen At the uninstall screen, click on continue. If you later need to uninstall the software you would re-run this installer and click on the Uninstall button. GlobalSAN Uninstall Screen At the Standard Install screen you can click on the Custom Install button to allow you to choose which packages within the metapackage to install. It is best to leave them all checked and then click on the Continue button.