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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>
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| 9 | iSCSI stands for <i>Internet SCSI</i> and is a
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| 10 | standard that supports use of the SCSI protocol over Internet
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| 11 | (TCP/IP) connections. Especially with the advent of Gigabit
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| 12 | Ethernet, it has become affordable to attach iSCSI storage servers
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| 13 | simply as remote hard disks to a computer network. In iSCSI
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| 14 | terminology, the server providing storage resources is called an
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| 15 | <i>iSCSI target</i>, while the client connecting to
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| 16 | the server and accessing its resources is called an
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| 17 | <i>iSCSI initiator</i>.
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| 18 | </p>
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| 19 | <p>
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| 20 | Oracle VM VirtualBox can transparently present iSCSI remote storage to a
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| 21 | virtual machine as a virtual hard disk. The guest OS will not see
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| 22 | any difference between a virtual disk image (VDI file) and an
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| 23 | iSCSI target. To achieve this, Oracle VM VirtualBox has an integrated
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| 24 | iSCSI initiator.
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| 25 | </p>
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| 26 | <p>
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| 27 | Oracle VM VirtualBox's iSCSI support has been developed according to the
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| 28 | iSCSI standard and should work with all standard-conforming iSCSI
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| 29 | targets. To use an iSCSI target with Oracle VM VirtualBox, you must use
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| 30 | the command line. See <xref href="vboxmanage-storageattach.dita"/>.
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| 31 | </p>
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| 32 | </body>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | </topic>
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