Hi,

Are you using Xen standalone hypervisor or are you just running Xen on a different distro? You do need a hardware key to enable iscsi offload, part number C402D. 

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

So, this is something to plug on the motherboard and on the secondary NIC.

We are using the Oracle flavor of Xen (Oracle VM).

I've seen that iscsuio (brcm_iscsiuio) is already running and that ifaces named according to iscsi MACs have been pre-created in /var/lib/iscsi/ifaces, beside the two that we have created.

-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.00:10:18:db:5f:09
-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.00:10:18:db:5f:0b
-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.00:10:18:db:5f:0d
-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.00:10:18:db:5f:0f
-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.d4:be:d9:f3:0f:4b
-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.d4:be:d9:f3:0f:4d
-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.d4:be:d9:f3:0f:4f
-rw------- 1 root root 249 Nov 20  2015 bnx2i.d4:be:d9:f3:0f:51
-rw------- 1 root root 234 Nov 20  2015 iFaceem4
-rw------- 1 root root 235 Nov 20  2015 iFacep1p4

# BEGIN RECORD 6.2.0-873.10.el6
iface.iscsi_ifacename = bnx2i.00:10:18:db:5f:09
iface.hwaddress = 00:10:18:db:5f:09
iface.transport_name = bnx2i
iface.vlan_id = 0
iface.vlan_priority = 0
iface.iface_num = 0
iface.mtu = 0
iface.port = 0
# END RECORD

I'll check with our Dell representative to purchase that part.