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What is iSCSI good for?

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What is iSCSI good for?

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There are many applications for iSCSI, but all are a result of three characteristics. First, it breaks the distance barrier of SCSI. As SCSI gets faster, the maximum cable length goes down. The length also decreases when more devices are attached to the bus. The iSCSI protocol allows us to use Ethernet wiring to connect SCSI devices together. Second, iSCSI permits more devices. SCSI is limited to either 8 or 16 devices on a bus, which is no where near enough for enterprise networking. Third, iSCSI allows us to use the networking characteristics of Ethernet to share a given device with multiple hosts. These features allow us to build a wide variety of storage networks.

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