Case Study: How to discover iscsi targets with linux-iscsi initiator package — Suse linux 9 (scsi Initiator) and openfiler (scsi target)

Birds eye view of the end configuration…
Here is the bird’s eye view of the end configuration that we will achieve at the end of this article:
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My Grumblings with openfiler..
Those of you who have started experimented with openfiler may have started liking its features already. One of the biggest concerns that [...]

Virtualbox How to: Gotchas involved in making a USB external hard disk device work on windows host

Preface
Sometime back, I installed Openfiler on a external hard disk (manufacturer: Iomega)that I had at home (running Windows Vista Home Premium). This was meant to be a proof of concept and pretty soon, I had to bring it to office desktop (running Windows XP SP2) to make it work with some other virtualbox virtual machines [...]