iSCSI Protocol Conformance Test Suite Launched by Calsoft

Calsoft, Inc. announced its iSCSI Protocol Conformance Test Suite – a ready made repository of test cases through which off-the-shelf as well as custom built iSCSI hardware and software targets can be exhaustively tested.

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The test suite reduces testing time while ensuring optimal test coverage.

The iSCSI Protocol Conformance Test Suite helps vendors swiftly validate target implementation compliance with iSCSI protocol, RFC 3720. The test suite offers IP SAN developers a user-friendly framework to test iSCSI behavior in heterogeneous, high performance IP SAN environments. The extensible framework comes with multiple test case sets that validate conformance against login phase, full feature phase, and error recovery. The scripting feature provided in the framework facilitates vendors in effortlessly creating automated regression test suites.

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iSCSI Protocol Conformance Test Suite carries out testing across each of categories listed below:

• iSCSI Protocol Conformance Test Suite

• Certifications

• Target interoperability

• Multi-pathing at target and initiator

• Target configuration, CHAP, SLP, discovery

• iSCSI security testing

• iSCSI persistent reservation

• Driver install and upgrade

• T10 DIF testing

• Software management, CLI (Command Line Interface)

• Limits, boundary conditions min-max value

• Performance characterization and regression

• Data consistency/validation

• Statistics and diagnostics

• Workloads

• Storage platform testing