Hello fellas,
For learning purposes only, I would like to use my FreeBSD box like a SAN box in the way that I would "export" an entire hdd (for instance /dev/da0) and I would "see" it in the other FreeBSD box "as is" and be able to mount it just as a local hdd.
The idea came from work, where we have dedicated SAN environment, and all our AIX machines have SAN disks. I would create a box with a bunch of disks and from there I would like to have, let's say 5 diskless machines, booting off, of the main one with disks.
I know the pc architecture doesn't allow this (PXE comes into mind) but in the end, I would like to have 1 disk from 1 machine "viewable" as "/dev/whatever" on the other machines.
I do not have FSC adapters. I am just curious if this is possible via LAN or something else
For learning purposes only, I would like to use my FreeBSD box like a SAN box in the way that I would "export" an entire hdd (for instance /dev/da0) and I would "see" it in the other FreeBSD box "as is" and be able to mount it just as a local hdd.
The idea came from work, where we have dedicated SAN environment, and all our AIX machines have SAN disks. I would create a box with a bunch of disks and from there I would like to have, let's say 5 diskless machines, booting off, of the main one with disks.
I know the pc architecture doesn't allow this (PXE comes into mind) but in the end, I would like to have 1 disk from 1 machine "viewable" as "/dev/whatever" on the other machines.
I do not have FSC adapters. I am just curious if this is possible via LAN or something else