Comparison of iSCSI targets

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.

Comparison chart

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

Function FalconStor FreeNAS Microsoft Windows Storage Server[1] Open-E [2] 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 [3] 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

  1. ^ "Windows Storage Server 2008".
  2. ^ "Data Storage Software V6 (DSS V6)".
  3. ^ "Review of Open-E DSS v7".
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