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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic
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| 3 | PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="storage-iscsi">
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| 5 | <title>iSCSI Servers</title>
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p>iSCSI stands for <i>Internet SCSI</i> and is a standard that supports use of the SCSI protocol over
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| 9 | Internet (TCP/IP) connections. Especially with the advent of Gigabit Ethernet, it has become affordable to attach
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| 10 | iSCSI storage servers simply as remote hard disks to a computer network. In iSCSI terminology, the server
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| 11 | providing storage resources is called an <i>iSCSI target</i>, while the client connecting to the server and
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| 12 | accessing its resources is called an <i>iSCSI initiator</i>. </p>
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| 13 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can transparently present iSCSI remote storage
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| 14 | to a virtual machine as a virtual hard disk. The guest OS will not see any difference between a virtual disk image
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| 15 | (VDI file) and an iSCSI target. To achieve this, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> has an
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| 16 | integrated iSCSI initiator. </p>
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| 17 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>'s iSCSI support has been developed according to
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| 18 | the iSCSI standard and should work with all standard-conforming iSCSI targets. To use an iSCSI target with <ph
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| 19 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, you must use the command line. See <xref
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| 20 | href="vboxmanage-storageattach.dita"/>. </p>
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| 21 | </body>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | </topic>
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