HP NC532m Dual Port 10GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter - Manual (Page 4)

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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