So, as most of you know…even though I work on the Windows platform – I’m an Apple fan. As such, I subscribe to one of our mac mailing list to listen in on what other Appleheads at NetApp are doing. The other day, Albert Y., a fellow engineer in RTP ported an iSCSI load generator to the iPhone. He says he “ported it to run on Mac OS X a while back, so it was a matter of cross compiling it to get a native iPhone binary.” He goes on to say it “implements enough of the iSCSI protocol so that it runs completely in user space.” He ran some performance tests on it (over the WiFi network, I assume), and it generated 100 ops/sec to a NetApp FAS940 while playing music. 
Very cool! Albert – you definitely get some nerd points for that.
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I wanted to know if I could get your iSCSI load generator, I am interested in using it on the ipad. I would live to connect to my iscsi drive and have access to all my information from the ipad or iphone. Thanks!!
-Brock
I wanted to know if ou had access the the iSCSI load generator compiled for the iphone, I am interested in using it on the ipad. I would live to connect to my iscsi drive and have access to all my information from the ipad or iphone. Thanks!!
-Brock
Sorry Brock. I actually don’t have access to the tool and I no longer work for NetApp so I don’t have contact with the guy who originally created it.
Came across this site while looking for iSCSI on iPhone.
There is an app for that, you know…
Called “iSCSI Target” in the App Store.
Free Download, allows for disk sized up to 70 MB. Everything above that wants to be payed with hefty US$ 10.99. Probably worth it, though I’m happy with multiple 700MB chunks…
Cheers.
Wolf
If somebody comes across a free solution (something that would be installed via Cydia, probably) please think of me… Thanks.
Thanks for the posts, Wolf. I had no idea that there was an iSCSI Target in the App Store.