Qlogic Fibre Channel Adapter User Manual page 31

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a.
b.
c.
8. After the Selectable Boot is enabled, select the boot device. QLogic FC
adapters allow the specification of up to four WWPN/LUNs as boot devices.
To select up to three boot devices, follow these steps:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Now the ESX system is ready to boot from SAN from the specified boot
devices.
NOTE:
QLogic recommends that when both the adapter BIOS and the Selectable
Boot option are enabled, you always select a device and put it in the
Primary boot device location of the Selectable Boot menu list.
FC0054606-00 A
Enable
WWPN/LUN
Selectable
Boot List
Boot
No x
Yes None specified
Yes Specified
Choose Selectable Boot Settings, and then press
On the Selectable Boot Settings page, choose Selectable Boot.
To toggle the value to Enabled, press
To move to the Primary location of the Selectable Boot List menu,
press the
DOWN ARROW
To see a list of accessible devices in the Select Fibre Channel Device
menu, press
ENTER
Press the
DOWN ARROW
put into your Selectable Boot menu list.
To select the requested device and load it into the Selectable Boot
menu list, press
ENTER
(Optional) Repeat this step to specify up to three alternate boot
devices.
BIOS configures the first disk drive it finds as
boot device.
BIOS configures the first disk drive it finds that is
also a LUN 0 as boot device.
BIOS scans through the specified boot WWPN
or LUN list until it finds a disk drive, and then
configures it as the boot device.
ENTER
key.
.
key to scroll down to the device you want to
.
Configuration
Configuring Boot from SAN
Device Boot
.
ENTER
.
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