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jonnysideways
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‎10-14-2010 04:15 AM

Broadcom iSCSI Cards

Quick q. Can Dell Poweredge r710 Broadcom onboard Network cards be used as Hardware iSCSI Initiators.

John

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vmroyale
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‎10-14-2010 05:58 AM

Hello.

The onboard Broadcom 5709 cards cannot be used as hardware initiators. This is discussed in the iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide.

Good Luck!

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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jonnysideways
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‎10-14-2010 06:14 AM

Thanks but it did say:

Hardware iSCSI Adapter

A hardware iSCSI adapter is a third-party adapter that offloads iSCSI and network processing from your host.

Hardware iSCSI adapters are divided into categories.

Dependent Hardware iSCSI Adapter

Depends on VMware networking, and iSCSI configuration and management

interfaces provided by VMware.

This type of adapter can be a card that presents a standard network adapter

and iSCSI offload functionality for the same port. The iSCSI offload

functionality depends on the host's network configuration to obtain the IP,

MAC, and other parameters used for iSCSI sessions. An example of a

dependent adapter is the iSCSI licensed Broadcom 5709 NIC.

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