Sep 6, 2011

Tech Chop Episode 7– Home Grown SAN Solutions

I know it’s been a few months since I released an episode of Tech Chop. I have seriously been slacking in that department. After the last one, I ran out and got a bunch of new equipment including a camera, lighting set and a portable collapsible green/blue screen. Then they sat around in the garage for a while.

A lot of that has to do with me changing jobs a few months ago. I took over the IT department for a small company in La Jolla California, and getting everything up to speed there has taken up a lot of my time. Some of the things I’ve done for them was virtualize the servers at the home office using Xen Server, moved data centers, and built them a 20TB redundant SAN using Ubuntu. That’s just to name a few.

The best thing though was building the SAN, and I thought I would do a Tech Chop on the options I explored in the open source world. Oh yeah, and I have a new background! Check it out!

 

The software I mention in the video are:

If you’ve followed along for a while, you know that I found the IET on Ubuntu option to be the best choice by far!

Do you use any of the above for iSCSI in your environments? What’s your favorite? Why? Let us know in the comments!

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