iSCSI initiator operating system considerations follow:
• Host-mode setting—Linux
• NIC bonding—Not supported
Sun Solaris iSCSI initiator rules and guidelines
The The Sun Solaris iSCSI initiator supports the following:
• Solaris iSCSI initiator only
• Multipath using MPxIO
• MPxIO Symmetric option only
• MPxIO round-robin
• MPxIO auto-failback
iSCSI initiator operating system considerations follow:
• Host-mode setting–Sun Solaris
• TOE NICs or iSCSI HBA—Not supported
• LUN 0—Not supported
VMware iSCSI initiator rules and guidelines
The VMware iSCSI initiator supports the following:
• Native iSCSI initiator in VMware ESX 4.0/3.5
• Guest OS SCSI controller, LSI Logic and/or Bus Logic (Bus Logic with SUSE Linux only)
• ESX server's native multipath solution, based on NIC teaming on the server
• Guest OS boot from an MPX200 iSCSI device
• Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) data stores and raw device mapping for guest OS virtual
machines
• Multi-initiator access to the same LUN via VMFS
• VMware ESX server 4.0/3.5 native multipath solution based on NIC teaming
iSCSI initiator operating system considerations follow:
• Host-mode setting—VMware
• Hardware iSCSI initiator (iSCSI HBA)—Not supported
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