I have an old HP Proliant G5 where I bought some 373T NIC's for iSCSI. it's running Windows 2008 R2 question is do i configure this in the HP NIC software or in MS iSCSI initiator? the NIC's are supposed to have the iscsi acceleration in there. I tried this once on a Proliant G7 with internal NIC's but had to use iscsi initiator. but I don't think i had the performance pack licenses for that. where my current NIC's have the licenses out of the box

Hi, If you are talking about "HP ProLiant iSCSI Acceleration Software Pack license", you will have to contact HP for detailed information about it. For iSCSI software initiator, you can just have a try to use it to connect the virtual disk configged (maybe by iSCSI Target)TechNet Subscriber Support in forum |If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.

Hi, If you are talking about "HP ProLiant iSCSI Acceleration Software Pack license", you will have to contact HP for detailed information about it. For iSCSI software initiator, you can just have a try to use it to connect the virtual disk configged (maybe by iSCSI Target)TechNet Subscriber Support in forum |If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.

I have an old HP Proliant G5 where I bought some 373T NIC's for iSCSI. it's running Windows 2008 R2 question is do i configure this in the HP NIC software or in MS iSCSI initiator? the NIC's are supposed to have the iscsi acceleration in there. I tried this once on a Proliant G7 with internal NIC's but had to use iscsi initiator. but I don't think i had the performance pack licenses for that. where my current NIC's have the licenses out of the box You need to grab latast drivers for your NIC and play with TCP and iSCSI offload related settings inside driver options (no idea do HP have all of them enabled or disabled or set to optimal state by default). Make sure you have some TCP testing tools (nttcp and iperf for example) and iSCSI testing tools (MS initiator paired with a good iSCSI target using RAM as a storage) as it's not necessary you'll have the best thrououtput and lowest latency / CPU usage with all offload settings enabled. -nismo

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I have an old HP Proliant G5 where I bought some 373T NIC's for iSCSI. it's running Windows 2008 R2 question is do i configure this in the HP NIC software or in MS iSCSI initiator? the NIC's are supposed to have the iscsi acceleration in there. I tried this once on a Proliant G7 with internal NIC's but had to use iscsi initiator. but I don't think i had the performance pack licenses for that. where my current NIC's have the licenses out of the box You need to grab latast drivers for your NIC and play with TCP and iSCSI offload related settings inside driver options (no idea do HP have all of them enabled or disabled or set to optimal state by default). Make sure you have some TCP testing tools (nttcp and iperf for example) and iSCSI testing tools (MS initiator paired with a good iSCSI target using RAM as a storage) as it's not necessary you'll have the best thrououtput and lowest latency / CPU usage with all offload settings enabled. -nismo