Preface
This book is a guide to understanding Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and where it fits in the world. It contains discussions of the marketplace where appropriate and of some technology competitors, such as Fibre Channel. However, mostly there will be positioning of the various technologies to emphasize their appropriate strengths. iSCSI is based on such a ubiquitous network technology (TCP/IP) that it seems to play in many different areas that are currently dominated by other technologies. Therefore, one needs to view all iSCSI capabilities and determine its applicability to the area in which the reader is interested.
Since iSCSI is only a transport, that is, a carrier of the SCSI protocol, there is no involved discussion of SCSI itself. Many ...
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