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ScaleIO used to have a capability to expose the volumes over standard
iSCSI, but this capability has been removed long time ago. As this was
a feature
in the past, making Dell/EMC to re-introduce it may not be completely
impossible if there is high enough interest for that. However, this
would vanish
the power of the proprietary protocol which let the client to balance
the load towards multiple servers.
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iSCSI does have the ability to communicate additional paths that a client may choose to invoke, the issue then largely becomes locking across paths, which becomes a huge issue if lun locking is being used as part of something like a clustered file system. Of course, most initial initiators may not be able to support this, and as far as I'm aware what iscsi initiators that we can control in hardware don't have or have limited iscsi multipath support. Of course, if they iBFT load that.... Well, I'll stop now because of limitations with iBFT. :)