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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.
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.
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hiddenknight821
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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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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).
