HP NC373m HP ProLiant Accelerated iSCSI for Linux User Guide - Page 4

Overview iSCSI protocol The HP iSCSI protocol transports block-level storage requests of TCP connections over IPv4 and IPv6. Using the iSCSI protocol, systems can connect to remote storage and use it as a physical disk although the remote storage provider or target may actually be providing virtual physical disks. HP Accelerated iSCSI supports all targets that are certified and supported by Linux software. HP Gigabit Ethernet Multifunction Server Adapters can be enabled as iSCSI devices or virtual iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs), a feature commonly referred to as accelerated iSCSI. iSCSI HBAs or accelerated adapters, provide the capability to run iSCSI protocol over offloaded TCP connections. By offloading the IPv4 or IPv6 TCP connection processing to an HP Gigabit Ethernet Multifunction Server Adapter, CPU utilization is reduced allowing additional processing capacity for applications. The HP accelerated iSCSI solution supports all targets that are certified and supported by Linux software. Supported operating systems • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AS/ES for AMD64/EM64T • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AS/ES for x86 • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 (SP1, SP2) for x86 • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 (SP1, SP2) for AMD64 Supported hardware Servers. Server support includes all ProLiant servers that include an iLO or RiLO management device with any of the supported operating systems. Adapters. HP adapter support includes the following: • HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC370i PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter * • HP NC371i PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter* • HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC373T PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC373m PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter for c-Class BladeSystem • HP NC373i Integrated Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter* • HP NC374m PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter • HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter Overview 4