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Developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), iSCSI is a technology designed to carry SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) commands and data across an IP network. It enables a server (initiator) to send SCSI commands and data to a storage device (target) over a TCP/IP based network (standard LAN technology) in IP packets.

Supermicro provide a range of iSCSI Storage Area Networks (iSCSI SAN) platforms, scaling from entry level 1U rackmount servers based on Serial ATA (SATA) technology with 1TB (Terabyte) through 4TB capacities, to fully redundant iSCSI SAN storage servers incorporating a choice of hardware RAID levels including RAID level 0, 1 (10), 5, 6 and JBOD, dual gigabit Ethernet connectivity and a range of sizes up to 24TB (Terabyte) all using hot swap SATA hard drives

With the recent development of the iSCSI protocol and silicon-based TCP/IP offload engines, SANs based on IP networks are now possible. iSCSI builds on the two most widely used protocols from the storage and the networking worlds. From the storage side, iSCSI uses the SCSI command set, the core storage commands used throughout all storage configurations. On the networking side, iSCSI uses IP and Ethernet, which are the basis for most corporate networks, and are increasingly being used for metropolitan and wide area networking as well.

An iSCSI storage area network (iSCSI SAN) requires a fabric of switches that creates a SAN using standard Ethernet switches and routers to transport data over the fabric. This fabric also may include storage routers and switches that have a combination of iSCSI interfaces and other storage interfaces such as SCSI. 

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