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iSCSI Software Adapter or Broadcom iSCSI adapter?

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This is a bit of a follow up thread on an earlier post. But I see that my 5 BL490c G6 hosts have listed both a software adapter and Broadcom iSCSI Adapter. Though I have nothing listed under the Broadcom adapters.

 

Is there a performance difference between these two? In my head, hardware should be better than software, but it seems to default to software.

I found this KB, indicating there may be some fiddling involved to get ESX to use the Broadcom adapters, but is it worth it?

 

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025644

 

The iSCSI SAN is a StorageWorks P4300 G2.


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