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Here is what I have assembled from looking through the iSCSI RFC 3720 (www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3720.txt). The Protocol Data Unit (PDU - iSCSI "packet") has these elements: 1. Basic Header Segment - 48 bytes 2. Additional Header Segments - optional - 0 bytes (assume these are not needed) 3. Header...

I am interested in the number of bytes added to pass some quantity of data - those bytes being overhead, i.e. they are not the data of interest to the end user/application, but are required as part of the SCSI/iSCSI protocol to do its job. I have the overhead for TCP/IP and those packets will be...

I have a really simple question: how much overhead is introduced by iSCSI and SCSI in the transfer of the data to read or write? I understand that this is done in the Data-In and Data-Out transport packets and I understand there is overhead from TCP/IP and Ethernet, but what additional overhead...