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Dell Technologies is excited to offer iSCSI connectivity to our existing and new customers. The iSCSI storage protocol provides a potentially lower-cost-alternative connectivity method between hosts or virtual machines to Dell EMC PowerMaxOS based storage arrays. At a high-level glance, the primary benefits of the iSCSI storage protocol are as follows:
The PowerMaxOS iSCSI solution has been architected to take advantage of virtual local area networks (VLANs) to provide customers with greater host, port, and connection densities. The ability to use VLANs also provides built in multitenancy capabilities since the front-end storage ports can be virtualized and partitioned. This design makes the PowerMaxOS iSCSI solution an ideal connectivity choice when considering lower-cost storage options for converged infrastructures and all virtualized environments.