RE: [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   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Krause Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:28 PM To: Ian Jiang; openib-general@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", 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Computer Architecture Laboratory Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing,P.R.China Zip code: 100080 Tel: +86-10-62564394(office) _________________________________________________________________ ÓëÁª»úµÄÅóÓѽøÐн»Á÷£¬ÇëʹÓà MSN Messenger:  http://messenger.msn.com/cn _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general

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