3945N LSS iSCSI Target Configuration for VMWare ESXi

For best performance with VMware ESX, the following changes are required on the LSS iSCSI Target. Before you begin, please ensure that all virtual machines running from the LSS iSCSI target are paused or shutdown.

From the console, press CTL + ALT + w to enter the Hardware Configuration menu

Navigate to Tuning options > iSCSI daemon options > Target options

Select the iSCSI target(s) connected to VMWare

Enter the following values to configure your target with VMWare:

MaxRecvDataSegmentLen=262144

MaxBurstLength=1048576

MaxXmitDataSegmentLength=262144

FirstBurstLength=65536

DataDigest=None

MaxOutstandingR2T=8

ImmediateData=Yes

HeaderDigest=None

Wthreads=8