	     Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
              iSER initiator in OFED 1.2 Release Notes
			  
			   August 2007


* Background

	iSER allows iSCSI to be layered over RDMA transports (including
	InfiniBand and iWARP (RNIC)).

	The OpenFabrics iSER initiator implementation is interoperable with
	open-iscsi (http://www.open-iscsi.org/). It provides an alternative
	transport to iscsi_tcp in the open-iscsi framework. The iSER transport
	exposes a transport API to scsi_transport_iscsi, and a SCSI LLD API to
	the Linux SCSI mid-layer (scsi_mod). Currently, the OpenFabrics iSER
	initiator can be layered over InfiniBand (no iWARP support yet).

* Supported platforms

	SLES 10
	SLES 10 sp1
	RHEL 5

	The release has been tested against Voltaire iSCSI over iSER target
	running in Voltaire's IB/Fibre-Channel router. It was also tested
	against FalconStor's iSCSI over iSER target (IPStor).

* Installation/upgrade of open-iscsi
	If iSER is selected to be installed with OFED, open-iscsi will be also
	installed (or upgraded if another version of open-iscsi is already
	installed).  Installing/upgrading open-iscsi is required for iSER to
	work properly.

* Known issues 

	SCSI command aborts may cause some instabilities
	
* iSER links

	WIKI pages

	information on building/configuring/running the open iscsi initiator w.
	iSER https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=iSER

	IETF pages

	iSCSI and iSER specifications come out of the IETF IP storage (IPS) work
	group http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ips-charter.html.

	"ABOUT" page

	general and detailed information on iSCSI and iSER 
	http://www.voltaire.com/Products/Server_Products/iSER_iSCSI_RDMA
