[openib-general] [iser]about the target

[Rimmer, Todd]

I would like to clarify the comment on SRP.  There are companies presently shipping and demonstrating SRP native IB storage.  For example:
    Engenio (formerly LSI)
    Raytheon
    Data Direct
    Mellanox
 
SRP was designed for highly optimized storage access across an RDMA capable transport, and hence is capable of very high performance.
 
Longer term the storage vendors anticipate that iSCSI will be the focus for long haul (remote backup, etc) type solutions, while IB Native Storage and FC will be the focus for data center high performance storage solutions.
 
Todd R.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Krause [mailto:krause at cup.hp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:28 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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