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First Look at Emulex iSCSI 10Gb UCNA

Because the Emulex iSCSI UCNA has full iSCSI and TCP/IP offload, we expected some performance and host CPU efficiency gains when compared to other 10Gb adapters in this environment. We also expected that this adapter would be known to the host system as a storage rather than a network adapter, as has been our experience in the past with 1Gb iSCSI offload adapters. Also, because this adapter has full iSCSI hardware offload, no iSCSI software initiator is required.