From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Dependent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 6.7

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From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Dependent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 6.7

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'll explain the dependent hardware iSCSI initiator, and how it can be used by the ESXI host to communicate with an iSCSI storage array. So here we see in our diagram a virtual machine on the left, with a virtual SCSI controller. As that virtual machine issues storage commands, they flow through the virtual SCSI controller, and hit a storage adaptor that prepares them for transmission over a network. In this case, we have a physical storage adaptor. This is different than software iSCSI where the storage adaptor is based on software. Here we've purchased some actual hardware that's going to handle that workload. Now, with a dependent hardware iSCSI initiator, it's not a complete hardware solution, right? It's a physical storage adaptor, however, it still needs to be bound to VMkernel ports that are created in software. So while the dependent hardware iSCSI intiator eliminates some of the CPU…

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