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Comparison of iSCSI targets

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An iSCSI target is a storage resource located on an iSCSI server (more generally, one of potentially many instances of iSCSI storage nodes running on that server) as a "target". An iSCSI target usually represents hard disk storage, often accessed using an Ethernet-based network.

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Software packages are available to allow a customer to configure a computer with disk drives and a network interface to be an iSCSI target.

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Function

! FalconStor

! FreeNAS

! Microsoft Windows Storage Server

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! Open-E

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! Openfiler

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Snapshot

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Mirroring and Replication

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Thin Provisioning

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

I/O caching

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Multi-user mutual CHAP authorization

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

IPsec tunnelling

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

Software RAID

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Virtual Optical Drive

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Virtual tape library

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

Microsoft Management Console support

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

PerfMon support

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

High availability support

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}, but unstable

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| {{No}}

VHD support

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}-CHAP

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

Dynamically expanding file support

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

Virtual Burner support

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

EventViewer support

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

MPIO

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Windows Volume Snapshot Service

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

VMware integration toolkit

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

Remote management

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

Unlimited Network Interface Controller Support

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}} (Old v:1)

Storage unlimited

| {{No}} 64 TB

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}} 4/8/16 (more need additional license)

| {{Yes}}

References

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