iSCSI
Megabyte's Storage Dictionary
iSCSI |
Megabyte's Storage Dictionary |
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| iSCSI | iSCSI is a software package which emulates
parallel SCSI
protocols, but the connection method is via an IP network instead of a directly
attached SCSI compatible cable. SCSI is an intelligent protocol which enables data blocks to be read from or sent at high speed to a storage device such as a disk or tape drive. Early implementations of SCSI used ribbon cable and industry standard logic levels. The promise of iSCSI is that storage management software which was orginally written for the well established SCSI standard, can now be used to make a remote disk or tape drive on a network operate just like a local disk. The network can be a local area network such as ethernet, or even the Internet. The potential benefit is that users can connect to remote storage devices to replicate data without having to invest in writing huge amounts of new (buggy) software. If you're interested in seeing historical snapshots of iSCSI history - try these links which take you to archived versions of our main iSCSI news and vendor page (and archived external iSCSI pages too). |
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