[openib-general] [iser]about the target

[Yaron Haviv]

Ian,

 

An iSER target is basically an iSCSI target with an add-on of an iSER transport

As you may know Voltaire contributed the iSER Initiator and also has a full Target implementation that was tested with it

 

There are few Target solutions that are possible:

There is at least one major storage vendor working on a target that will be available later on

Voltaire also provides a software package that can turn a server to an iSCSI/iSER target (not open source)

As well as gateway solutions from iSER to FC and GbE 

In addition UNH has started some work on enabling iSER on their Open Source iSCSI target 

 

Logically iSER target is a (much faster) iSCSI Target 

So just like in iSCSI you can bridge iSER to FC just like Cisco MDS Bridge from iSCSI to FC 

There are standards that define the exact mapping between the FC naming and iSCSI naming 

 

Yaron

 

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From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Michael Krause
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:28 PM
To: Ian Jiang; openib-general at openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] [iser]about the target

 

At 06:07 PM 7/4/2005, Ian Jiang wrote:



Hi!
I am new to the iSER.
On " https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=iSER <https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=iSER> ", it is said that iSER currently contains initiator only (no target). Will the target come out later? How did they test the iSER initiator without a iSER target?
Could you give some explaination?


>From a practical perspective, there are very few iSCSI targets shipping today.  Most people had envisioned iSER over IB to a gateway Ethernet device since native IB storage is also quite rare in terms of real product.  For many of us, our push for iSER over IB was to replace SRP which has a deficient ecosystem thus not really used beyond some basic Fibre Channel gateway cards.  

Mike




Thanks!



Ian Jiang
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