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The software iSCSI adapter that is built into ESXi facilitates this connection by communicating with the physical NICs through the network stack. With the software-based iSCSI implementation, you can use standard NICs to connect your host to a remote iSCSI target on the IP network. This iSCSI adapter handles all iSCSI and network processing and management for your ESXi system.Ī dependent hardware iSCSI adapter is a third-party adapter that depends on VMware networking, and iSCSI configuration and management interfaces provided by VMware. When you configure the adapters, you set several iSCSI parameters.Īn independent hardware iSCSI adapter is a specialized third-party adapter capable of accessing iSCSI storage over TCP/IP.