# iSCSI

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**Category:** home storage\
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**Created:** [March 24, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/iscsi/1733 "2025-03-24T01:50:37Z")\
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# iSCSI

## iSCSI Software

### TGT

TGT is preferred for all new installs.

- [https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux\_iSCSI\_Target\_(tgt)](https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_iSCSI_Target_(tgt))
- [GitHub - fujita/tgt: user-space iSCSI target daemon · GitHub](https://github.com/fujita/tgt)

### LIO

LIO is also supported in legacy installations:

- [LIO (SCSI target) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIO_(SCSI_target))
- [https://linux.die.net/man/8/targetcli](https://linux.die.net/man/8/targetcli)

note stability concerns:

- [https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Blog/iSCSI\_target\_in\_user-space](https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Blog/iSCSI_target_in_user-space)

## iSCSI Performance

- [IBM Documentation](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-7x00/8.5.x?topic=rp-iscsi-performance-analysis-tuning)
- [CSDL | IEEE Computer Society](https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/cnsr/2011/4393a085/12OmNB9t6q7)