FreeBSD 26 iSCSI On FreeBSD Abdorrahman Homaei iSCSI is a protocol that gives you the ability to share storage over a network at block level. It’s like connecting new storage to your computer and can format it as you wish. In iSCSI terminology, the computer that shares the storage is known as the target, and the clients which access the iSCSI storage are called initiators. FreeBSD originally supports kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator. Many 5 Table of Contents people are not sure about choosing between DAS (Block-Level directly), NAS (File-Level over the network) and SAN (Block-Level over the network). Don’t settle for storage based on the amount of space only; rather, the answers to these important questions should act as a guiding principle. What is your storage expansion policy? What is your backup policy? Google Compute the iSCSI storage are called initiators. FreeBSD originally supports kernel-based iSCSI target and initiator. Many 5 Table of Contents people are not sure about choosing between DAS (Block-Level directly), NAS (File-Level over the network) and SAN (Block-Level over the network). Don’t settle for storage based on the amount of space only; rather, the answers to these important questions should act as a guiding principle. What is your storage expansion policy? What is your backup policy? Google Compute