[ATrpms-users] scscitarget vs iscsi-initiator

[Brian Long]

On Feb 7, 2008 8:41 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Trying to learn a bit about iSCSI and I notice that ATrpms has
> iscsitarget kernel module and utilities.
>
> I then noticed that CentOS comes with iscsi-initiator-utils.
>
> I was wondering what were the differences, is there an advantage of
> using one over another etc..


Target and Initiator are opposites.  Initiator (client) allows your host to
mount iSCSI targets which are "exported" from an iSCSI device (e.g. disk
array).  Target allows you to "export" iSCSI devices to other iSCSI
initiators.

/Brian/
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