Installing And Configuring The Qla4010 Iscsi Hba To Boot From An Emc Storage Array; Installing Boot Bios On The Qla4010 Iscsi Hba From Dos; Setting Up The Hba Bios - EMC QLogic User Manual

Installing and Configuring the QLogic QLA4010 iSCSI HBA (TOE)
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Installing and Configuring the QLA4010 iSCSI HBA to boot from
an EMC Storage Array

Installing Boot BIOS on the QLA4010 iSCSI HBA from DOS

Setting Up the HBA BIOS

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The procedure below describes how to install and configure the boot
BIOS.
By default, the QLA4010 iSCSI HBA does not ship with Boot BIOS
installed. Without Boot BIOS, the HBA cannot be configured to boot
from an external storage array. Follow these steps to install Boot
BIOS from DOS.
Note: Boot BIOS also can be installed using the SANSurfer utility.
1. Create a DOS-bootable floppy disk.
2. Copy the Boot BIOS
floppy. For the latest version of Boot BIOS refer to the EMC
support matrix. The necessary files are:
, and
iFLASH.exe dos4gw.exe
3. Boot the server with the floppy.
4. At the DOS prompt, type
all detected HBAs in the server.)
5. The iFLASH utility will display a message if the update was
successful.
After the HBA is installed in the host and the EMC array is connected
to iSCSI network, you can configure an EMC-qualified QLogic iSCSI
HBA for boot support using Fast!UTIL, as described below:
1. Boot the server, and press
banner.
Different HBA models may display different banners. Be sure to
select for the HBA you wish to configure.
CTRL-Q
file and QLogic flash utility onto the
.BIN
ql4010rm.bin
.
(this will program BIOS to
iFLASH /fb
when you see the QLogic
CTRL-Q
,