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Network Dictionary – iSCSI

2nd May 2008 By Leave a Comment

iSCSI – (eye-scuzzee)

- a protocol designed to transport SCSI block data across an IP network thus allowing a single network infrastructure.

- a protocol used by networking teams so they don’t have to understand storage (thanks to Jeff Darcy at Pl.atyp.us)

compare with Fibrechannel

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