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ruairi_mongan
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ESX 3 Hardware I-SCSI software intiator

Hi

I am trying to find out whether the hardware tcp/ip off-load capability is compatibile with VMware ESX.

Cheers

Ruairi

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weinstein5
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Yes the current release of ESX supports does support TOE for iSCSI communication - I do not believe you take advantage of the TOE portion of the card if you are going to use them as regular network cards - since for the vms the guest o/s handles the encapsulation into a tcp packet -

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