iSCSI Target for FreeBSD 8.0 for ESX servers

FreeBSD 8.0 doesn't natively support an iSCSI target server. This was a bit of a surprise when I discovered this fact, but I was sure that the ports database would include something that I could use. This technote shows how to set up the target server I found and have working. I'm running VM's on it from my ESXi servers and performance seems pretty good. (Especially considering that the FreeBSD installation in question is also a virtual machine, but that is another story...)

The iSCSI target server that I'm using is the istgt daemon. To compile and install this is simplicity itself.