2V0-622D · Question #116
Which iSCSI initiator type can be used with any network interface card?
The correct answer is D. Software iSCSI initiator. The software iSCSI initiator is a VMkernel-based implementation that handles all iSCSI processing in software, requiring no special hardware capabilities from the NIC.
Question
Which iSCSI initiator type can be used with any network interface card?
Options
- ASoftware FCoE adapter
- BHardware Independent iSCSI initiator
- CHardware Dependent iSCSI initiator
- DSoftware iSCSI initiator
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A3% (1)
- C3% (1)
- D94% (31)
Why each option
The software iSCSI initiator is a VMkernel-based implementation that handles all iSCSI processing in software, requiring no special hardware capabilities from the NIC.
Software FCoE is a Fibre Channel over Ethernet adapter type used for FC storage traffic, not an iSCSI initiator, and it requires a NIC that supports FCoE capabilities.
Hardware Independent iSCSI initiator is not a recognized VMware iSCSI adapter classification; the correct VMware terms are software iSCSI, dependent hardware iSCSI, and independent hardware iSCSI.
The Hardware Dependent (dependent hardware) iSCSI initiator requires a NIC with iSCSI offload support to function and cannot work with an arbitrary standard NIC.
The software iSCSI initiator is implemented entirely within the VMkernel networking stack, allowing it to work with any standard Ethernet NIC because all iSCSI protocol processing is handled by ESXi software rather than offloaded to a specialized adapter.
Concept tested: VMware iSCSI initiator types and NIC requirements
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-storage/GUID-8A929FE4-1207-4CC5-A086-7016D73C328F.html
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