EX300 exam objective iSCSI

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I am preparing to take the EX300 exam soon and I wanted to setup an iSCSI target to test against. I found that FreeNAS can be setup as an iSCSI target and it works from within a virtual machine.

FreeNAS 8 | Storage For Open Source

The below link is to the guide I used to setup. Although the initial part of the guide is for VMware Workstation I was able to setup a machine in VMM by using the OS type UNIX and Version FreeBSD 8.x no other changes were needed when createing a new virtual machine.

Budget Laboratory: Part 2 - iSCSI Virtual SAN with FreeNAS 8 | Fix the Exchange!

I hope this will help others preparing for the EX300 exam.

hiddenknight821

Thanks for sharing that as the RHCE is on my list, and I'm too far from that goal. I had no idea we would need to deal with SCSI and SAN.

For that second link you posted, you should thank the author, Everyone, here in TE.

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Thanks for pointing out that Everyone is the author.

Everyone, thank you for all the great information on your site!

AceRimmer

IMHO, there's no need to go for FreeNAS.
If using KVM host for lab, you can export LVMs (or file-based images) as iSCSI targets on KVM host and log into them with guest VMs.

More on that:
Creating Software-backed iSCSI Targets in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Linux Journal

EDIT: KVM is not prerequisite, you can create Software-backed iSCSI Targets with any solution. All you need is other linux machine (or VM).