iSCSI as Initiator rather than just Target

[FireBIade]

I need to connect an iSCSI capable NAS to my FreeNas machine but the Web Gui from what I can see only allows setting the FreeNas box up as a Target rather than an Initiator as well. I will have to dig out some commands for FreeBSD to see if I can get them connected but would be much easier if there was a tab in the Gui for this purpose.

 

[SoftDux-Rudi]

Agreed. It would be nice to be able to connect other iSCSI devices to a FreeNAS box in order to grow it's storage

 

[FireBIade]

I'm currently investigating alternatives, OpenFiler and E-Open apparently do it but I havn't had a good chance to look at them yet.

 

[SoftDux-Rudi]

OpenFiler is dead.

 

[oborowsk]

Yeah, would be nice to have iSCSI initiator support. I have a couple of HP P4500 (iSCSI targets) that I want to use for SMB and NFS sharing thru FreeNAS. Got it working but doesn't survive a reboot. Would be nice to have that included in FreeNAS

 

[FireBIade]

Hi oborowsk, could you share how you got it to connect to an iscsi device? I'd be interested to know.

 

[James]

This will be possible from the command line starting in 8.2 with a GUI coming at a later date: NOTE: beginning with 8.2, FreeNAS™ contains iscontro (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iscontrol). This utility allows the FreeNAS™ system to act as an initiator (rather than a target) and must be run from the command line. If you create a custom configuration for iscontrol, back it up as it will not survive a reboot of the system.