| Figure 2 illustrates the difference between a standard NIC, TOE, and an iSCSI HBA that provides full host CPU offload. |
| The iSCSI volume can be partitioned, named and formatted like a normal disk drive. |
| A hardware provider is usually a storage provider, like SANRAD Iscsi V-Switch, which creates and maintains snapshots at the storage hardware level. |
| An iSCSI Target is like a connection interface, and LUNs are essentially numbered disk drives. |
| The LUNs can be flexibly mapped to, unmapped from, and switched among different iSCSI targets. |
| A rack-mountable iSCSI capable NAS for iSCSI initiator developement needed in Zurich, Switzerland. |
