Multiple Connections per Session
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Multiple Connections per Session (MC/S) means using multiple communication paths in a single session ("I_T Nexus"). Architectural session command ordering is preserved across those communication paths.
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Overview
Multiple iSCSI connections per iSCSI session (MC/S) means creating multiple communication paths across TCP, SCTP or iSER & RCaP connections. Session-wide command (CmdSN defined) ordering is preserved per RFC 3720 to ensure in-order delivery of tasks from an SCSI Initiator Port to an SCSI Target Port as defined by the SCSI Architecture Model, in which iSCSI provides the SCSI transport.
Linux Compatibility
- Core-iSCSI: supported, stable
- Open-iSCSI: not supported
Standards compliance
The requirements as defined by RFC 3720 for non-ERL dependent MC/S support are not limited to the following:
- Add additional connections on the fly with active+inactive IO (non-leading login)
- Remove connections on the fly with active+inactive IO (explict logout)
- Remove connections on the fly on a different connection with active+inactive IO (different CID explict logout)
- Restart session+connections during single connection failure (session reinstatement)
- Multiple connection sessions to the same and different network portals (iSCSI trunking)
See also
External links
RFC 3720: Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)
