can ESXi use HP Proliant DL3x0 G6 nic as hardware iSCSI HBA?

[joedeet]

HP recently released a new 'generation' - G6 - of it's proliant DL series servers. The DL 360 and 380 G6 servers come with gigabit NICs on the motherboard 'with TCP/IP Offload Engine, including support for Accelerated

iSCSI'. (see http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13234_na/13234_na.html ). Does this mean those NICs are like iSCSI HBAs, and if so, does VMWare ESXi support using them as iSCSI HBAs?

[satish_lx]

for iSCSI support on nic you need vmkernel thats it. if you dont have Hardware iSCSI.

It will support

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[kjb007]

The only iSCSI HBA's that I know of that work are QLogic 4010/4022. If they are not QLogic in the hp's, then they will work like regular NICs, and you will have to use the sw initiator from ESX.

-KjB

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