Now this is cool.  Using the free MySAN iSCSI Server from Nimbus you can turn a regular windows server into an iSCSI target.  Say for example and iSCSI target for Virtual Server Host clustering.  Some of you will remember String Bean’s WinTarget before it was acquired by Microsoft.

Anyway, to use the Nimbus product, you need to register before you download it.  It is currently in RC1 and it doesn’t appear to be able to assign multiple hosts to a single target jsut yet — I did a quick search, and it looks like this will be fixed in the next release.

I haven’t had a proper chance to really evaluate it at the moment (see my next post), but when I do, I’ll blog it back here.  See, told you it was cool.

A snippet of the Compatibility and Minimum System Requirements are below:

MySAN is open and vendor-agnostic iSCSI target software. It can be used on any server running Windows Server 2003. It supports virtually any type of hard drive based storage device.

  • Windows Server 2003 SP1
  • .NET 2.0 installed (free download from Windows Update site)
  • 800 Mhz or higher processor
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • 20 MB of disk space for MySAN application data
  • Separate Windows volume(s) to serve as MySAN iSCSI targets
  • Ethernet network connection