[Linux-cluster] iSCSI enclosure

[Alan Wood <chekov ucla edu>]

Hi everyone,

I have been using an external doubly-connected SCSI enclosure (Dell 
powervault 220s) for our current clustering system (Fedora, heatbeat, GFS). 
I am now looking at moving towards iSCSI as a shared storage container. 
I've been following the chatter for a few months on the list and wanted to 
get opinions from the people out there about what their experience has been 
like with iSCSI.

Unfortunately I do not have too much money to spend and I do have a lot of 
SATA drives lying around, so I'm talking about low end gear at least for 
now.
I've seen a lot of press about the Dell/EMC AX100i, but a lot of it 
negative -- would be very curious as to people's opinions about that.  I've 
also found things like the Promise VTrak 15200:
http://www.techonweb.com/products/productdetail.aspx?id=B21111&src=FG
and the EonStor A12E-G2121:
http://www.infortrend.com/2_product/a12e-g2121.asp

which all seem to fit requirements.  anyone used those or any similar 
products?

also I've spent <30 minutes trying but was unable to get the linux iSCSI 
initiator to work with the 2.6 kernel -- has this been done?  is it 
production ready?

thanks
-alan