Suse Storeage Server (opinions needed)

wm_sorg · February 23, 2009, 10:14pm

Greetings to all. I am considering the possibility of using open suse as a platform for serving up storage for a small network. Ideally I need to serve storage to a windows cluster as well as Linux servers and workstations. Initially, I was thinking of using NFS, however now I am considering iSCSI.

Any thought or suggestions to put me on track would be greatly appreciated.

ken_yap · February 23, 2009, 10:27pm

Why not use a ready-made for this purpose distro such as openfiler?

Openfiler — Openfiler Homepage

wm_sorg · February 24, 2009, 4:11am

Thank you for your suggestion. I was not aware this existed. Are there any similar products out there?

ken_yap · February 24, 2009, 4:35am

Yes, there is the BSD based FreeNAS.

FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home