attaching an iSCSI box to FreeNAS (on ESXi vSphere)

[paulheu]

Would love to use what FreeNAS offers but it seems it is not possible to attach an iSCSI box (Drobo Pro) which is a deal breaker for me as I am (obviously) not going to be spending a lot of money of another solution.

I could still backup and reformat the Drobo as storage in ESXi but then I can't attach it directly to the VM afaik (but being a relative noob I might miss something here)

So, the question is.. Can I or not? been searching the net and all I can find is that FreeNAS supports being an iSCSI target but not attaching one. If so I guess it's going to be Ubuntu and samba ...

Thanks for any pointers..
Paul

 

[depasseg]

FreeNAS is designed for direct attached drives not iSCSI. Since FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, you could probably rig something together, but I imagine it would be easier to go Ubuntu.

 

[paulheu]

yeah, figured as much.. Got things up on about 15 minutes on Ubuntu