iSCSI mounts in macOS

The free options are: iSCSI Initiator for macOS https://github.com/iscsi-osx/iSCSIInitiator

iSCSI Initiator X - Freemium https://www.kernsafe.com/product/macos-iscsi-initiator.aspx


iSCSIInitiator has 0 commits since 2018, and Kernsafe's product has not seen an update since 11/2019. So both can effectively be considered abandonware at this point. Neither are working on Big Sur.

I found two options for Big Sur and newer:

  • Daemon Tools Lite for macOS. Performance seems to cap out around ~65MB/s (globalSAN was >100) but it seems stable and reliable so far.
  • ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator has recently been updated as well, and claims to support Big Sur/Monterey as well as Apple Silicon-based Macs. I haven't tested it.