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Comparison of iSCSI targets

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ4438311 ↗
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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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This entry incorporates text from “Comparison of iSCSI targets” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.