Apparatus and methods for distributing iSCSI and SCSI targets. The initiator
may assist in the distribution and order the SCSI commands. A subset of target
storage processors may act as proxies. Target storage processors forward requests
to a selected target storage processor which decides whether any and which of the
other target storage processors is to process a forwarded request. The target storage
processors may act as peers. A target storage processor communicates each received
request to all of the other storage processors. Each of the target storage processors
determines whether a request it received is to execute. A target storage processors
may arrange themselves into layers to divide the SCSI and iSCSI protocol work.
A distributed system associates each of multiple egress target storage processors
with a respective ingress target storage processor and associates a set of blocks
of storage with each of the egress target storage processors.
