Comparison of iSCSI targets
# Comparison of iSCSI targets

An iSCSI target is a storage resource located on an iSCSI server (more generally, one of potentially many instances of iSCSI storage nodes running on that server) as a "target". An iSCSI target usually represents hard disk storage, often accessed using an Ethernet-based network.

## Comparison chart

Software packages are available to allow a customer to configure a computer with disk drives and a network interface to be an iSCSI target.

| Function | FalconStor | FreeNAS | Microsoft Windows Storage Server | Open-E | Openfiler |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continuous Data Protection (CDP) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Snapshot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mirroring and Replication | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Thin Provisioning | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| I/O caching | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-user mutual CHAP authorization | No | No | No | No | No |
| IPsec tunnelling | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Software RAID | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Optical Drive | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual tape library | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Management Console support | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| PerfMon support | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| High availability support | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, but unstable | No |
| VHD support | Yes | Yes-CHAP | Yes | Yes | No |
| Dynamically expanding file support | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Virtual Burner support | No | No | No | No | No |
| EventViewer support | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| MPIO | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Volume Snapshot Service | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| VMware integration toolkit | No | No | No | No | No |
| Remote management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited Network Interface Controller Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (Old v:1) |
| Storage unlimited | No 64 TB | Yes | Yes | No 4/8/16 (more need additional license) | Yes |
