Advantages of iSCSI
Familiar network technology and management
- Reduces training and staff costs.
Proven transport infrastructure
- Increases reliability.
Transition from 1 Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Beyond
- Protects investment with simplified performances upgrades Scalability over long distances.
- Enables remote data replication and disaster recovery.
Bring Ethernet economics to storage
-Enables lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
Consolidation:
iSCSI delivers seamless expandability. automatic load balancing, automatic storage provision, disaster recovery etc..
Virtualization:
- Scalable, highly available pool of storage.
- Storage allocation and resizing on-demand.
- Centralized management with remote access.
- Security that protects logical volumes from unauthorized access.
- Snapshot and replication.
- Volume mirroring.
- Multi-Path host access.