iSCSI is one of many options to provide shared storage for Oracle RAC. I use it regularly as I can setup a virtual machine to provide iSCSI storage. Setup iSCSI storage in e.g. a virtual machine Use i.e. Openfiler (see this post: Setting Up Openfiler as iSCSI Target...

I just bought a FireWire 800 disk from LaCie and intend to use it for my virtual machines. I did a simple performance test as this is my first FireWire disk: Time to create a 1 GB file: FireWire 800: 16.1 seconds Internal hard disk: 16.7 seconds USB disk: 32.9 seconds...

This is a short manual using screenshots to show how to configure Openfiler, mainly as iSCSI target. I regularly use Openfiler as storage to test cluster setups with Oracle RAC or other cluster software. Openfiler is one of the options to have a storage with many interfaces...

When you intend to use raw devices (e.g. for Oracle RAC) you might end up in formatting lots of disks manually. As the provided raw devices are often backed by a storage subsystem which uses a RAID configuration and where you have configured LUNs you want to use the entire...