Introducing the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

For those not familiar with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, it allows a Windows Server to share block-level storage for other remote servers that uses this storage for their applications. The iSCSI protocol is the most widespread mechanism available to provide block-level storage access over a generic Ethernet (TCP/IP) network. In other words, The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target is a component that provides centralized, software-based and hardware-independent iSCSI disk subsystems in SANs.

The Microsoft iSCSI Solution

An iSCSI storage array consists of two components: the target and the initiator. The server that holds the storage is called the iSCSI target. Servers such as Hyper-V connect ...

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