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iSCSI SAN for Windows
iStorage Server Standard

KernSafe iStorage Server is advanced and powerful iSCSI Target software. Using it you can change any x86, x64 or Itanium based Windows machine into an iSCSI Target.

Using all benefits that comes from iSCSI, iStorage Server will improve overall management of your network storage by helping you to consolidate it. You can use it to export any SCSI based device, as well as all popular CD/DVD Images. That in other hand will help you to centrally manage your devices. Most important features that will easily benefit in use for business is High-Availability, RAID-1, VHD files, snapshots and continuous data protection (CDP & COW).
  • Provides extremely fast ISCSI RAM disk drives for temporary data storing on network.
  • Provides security disks for each client, Option, each client use own disk which use his/her CHAP password encrypted.
  • Provides a built-in iSCSI CD/DVD-ROM emulator which exports existing DVD-ROM ISO images to mounted iSCSI DVD-ROM drives on the clients. This prevents the original DVD-ROM media from possible physical damage or loss, so it also allows client machines without optical drives and allows storing DVD backup data on a single server.
  • Provides a built-in iSCSI virtual disk emulator. It exports existing disk images to mounted iSCSI disk drives on the clients. All the clients share the same contents. 
  • Provides a virtual CD/DVD-RW which allows create an iSCSI target using virtual burner and burn into ISO file.
  • Provides auto-mount feature for CD/DVD-RW emulator that automatically mounts new blank disk after previous burning process will finish.
  • Provides a network-bridged method. It exports an existing partition, disk, CD/DVD-ROM to clients as a virtual iSCSI drive.
  • Provides RAID-1 (Mirror) feature, it allows you to create two image files for mirror backup, image file can be local file or remote iSCSI device.
  • Provides fast replication synchronization and failover feature, that allows you can create an high-availability iSCSI SAN by using two or more than two iSCSI targets.
  • Provides volatile and persisted COW protection feature, that automatically create snapshots for each initiators with virtual write permission.
  • Provides Generic SCSI device, it allows you map generic SCSI devices to your initiator, such as USB Storage, Tape and Optical Scanner.
  • Provides read and write caching, which use memory on server as cache to improve data transfers speed and response time.
  • Provides CHAP user authentication mechanism.
  • Provides client's IP address authentication mechanism with additional security.
  • Active Directory-integrated local and remote management console.
  • Provides iSCSI Target portal address management, which allows you to make iStorage Server to be able to work behind the firewall.
  • Provides simple and banausic user management tool, to manage CHAP users.
  • No restrictions on disk capacity, total number of hard disk installed, number of CPUs or CPU cores, and ethernet ports or the amount of RAM.
  • Supports CDP/Snapshots, is compatible with Microsoft VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Services) snapshot,  volume cloning and incremental backups with unlimited number of rollback points.
  • Supports Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (.VHD) and VHD snapshot, which provides instant and point in any time snapshot feature.
  • Supports image file (.IMG) snapshot, which provides instant and point in any time snapshot feature.
  • Supports multiple connections per iSCSI session, which allows you to create Round Robin, Weighted Paths and so on.
  • Supports x86 and x64 machines.
  • Supports 64-bit LBA, providing more than 2TB of disk space.
  • Supports sparse image file on NTFS file system. It allows the size of disk image file only depend on its content used.
  • Supports any features on file system, such as in NTFS, a image file can be encrypted, compressed, or shared with other computers.
  • Supports a variety of popular CD/DVD image formats, such as: .iso, .bin, .mdf, .cdi, .b5i, .nrg, .ccd, .sub, .img, .raw.
  • Supports a variety of partition table format, such as the MBR, GPT.
  • Provides “Hold and Update“ mechanism that allow you can update data file from initiators to targets.
  • Fully Supports SCSI-2 Reserve/Release.
  • Fully Supports SCSI-3 Persistent Reserve.
  • Fully Supports VMWare Platform and VAAI (ATS, ZERO and XCOPY) interface.
  • Fully Supports Citrix XenServer.
  • Fully Supports open-iscsi on linux.
  • Fully conforms to the latest iSCSI Standard 1.0 (former Draft 20).