I am very new to SANs and have inherited an old EMC CX300 to play with. The CX300 is purely FC, but I'd like to experiment with ISCSI as well without having to purchase an expensive ISCSI gateway device.
I was thinking I could do something like the following:
- Connect a Win 2012 server directly to the CX300 via FC
- Install Windows native ISCSI target software
- Serve up LUNs to the server
- Point clients to the server via ISCSI to access the LUNs
Would this be an acceptable production solution? I would be using the server like a ISCSI gateway. But I wouldn't want to use Window's horrendous storage pools\RAID solution I would just want to pass clients straight through to the LUNs I served up to the server.
I apologize if this question is obtuse, but as I said I am very new to SANs. I'm not actually deploying this in production, but was curious if setups like this exist or are acceptable for production environments.