Setting Up An iSCSI Environment On Linux | Linux Today

Setting Up An iSCSI Environment On Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 3, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“Nowadays, the iSCSI technology is quite popular in the storage
world. This article shows an iSCSI demo environment which consists
of one Debian Linux host and one Netapp Filer.We try to show the
most important features of this protocol.

“It is a network storage protocol above TCP/IP. This protocol
encapsulates SCSI data into TCP packets. iSCSI allows us to connect
a host to a storage array via a simple Ethernet connection (tape
drive). This solution is cheaper than the Fibre Channel SAN (Fibre
channel HBAs and switches are expensive)…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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