iSCSI Target

Starting with the Solaris 10 5/09 release, iSCSI Target is upgraded to provide new features and functionality.

This iSCSI Target update includes the following performance, scalability, interoperability, and reliability improvements:

• Improved TCP/IP timeout recovery

• iSCSI initiator invoked SCSI RESETs

• Code path and memory leak cleanup

• Improved interoperability with Target Port Group Tags (TPGT), unidirectional and bidirectional CHAP authentication, and RADIUS server support

• Improved Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) support, including recovery from unavailable iSNS servers

• Updated SCSI-3 Persistent Reserve functionality that enables the use of the functionality in various clustering solutions on both Solaris and other operating systems

The Solaris iSCSI Target release now supports a wide variety of iSCSI initiators for the following operating systems:

• Solaris 10

• OpenSolaris

• Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Suse, and Ubuntu

• VMWare ESX

• Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Windows Cluster Server)

• Mac OS X