iSCSI is kind of the holy grail is storage these days.
Everyone wants it, a lot of people can’t afford it and then there’s also a lot of people who want it, can afford it but don’t understand it, and then lastly there’s cool people who give you it for nothing.
So whilst aboard the USS Richard Green on it’s travels across the Internet, I discovered this site:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/free
Their current software, StarWind Free 4.1 for Windows allows you to take any box running Windows and turn it into an iSCSI Software Target and for free.
It’s not without it’s limitations I may add. You are limited to 2TB of data storage, but that’s it.
Whilst you may not want to run this in a live environment, for lab and testing environments it’s great because it means you don’t need to go out and buy dedicated hardware for running iSCSI.