Boot Device Installation; Boot Device Support; Installing The Boot Device - Silicon Graphics InfiniteStorage 4000 Series System Upgrade Manual

Boot Device Installation

Boot Device
Support
Installing the
Boot Device
Appendix A: Boot Device Installation
Not all operating system support the use of a storage array as a boot device. The
following table shows which operating systems support this configuration.
Table 1 Operating System Support for Using a Storage Array as a Boot Device
Operating System
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP
Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V
Windows Vista
Solaris Sparc
Solaris x86
HP-UX
Linux
VMware
This section contains procedures to install a boot device on a storage array.
Before you install the storage management software components on the host, you
must prepare the storage array and the host.
ATTENTION Possible loss of data access – To make sure that you have failover
protection, the storage array that you want to assign as a boot device must have dual
controllers connected to two HBAs. If the storage array has a single controller or dual
controllers that are connected to the same HBA (host path), you do not have failover
protection and could lose access to the boot device when the controller fails or has
connection problems. For this reason, do not use this type of controller configuration
with a boot device installation.
You must have administrator privileges to access this software. You must use the
volume mapped to LUN 0 as the boot device. Some operating systems support
booting only from LUN 0.

Boot Device Support

Yes, where supported by
the HBAs
Yes, where supported by
the HBAs
Yes, where supported by
the HBAs
Yes
Yes, where supported by
the HBAs
Yes,
A
Comments
Not supported with iSCSI
connections
Not supported with
LP11xxx
Not supported with iSCSI or
InfiniBand connections
Not supported with iSCSI
connections
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