HP Booting Linux X86 And X86 64 Systems Manual

 
Figure 16 
 
5.  From the  Configure Adapter’s Parameters  screen (Figure 16
) select option 4, Topology 
Selection, (Advanced Option). 
6.  From the  Topology Selection  menu, select option 4, Fabric Po int to Point. Press Esc twice.  
7.  From the  HBA configuration menu  (), select option 1, Configure Boot Devices. 
8.  In the  Saved Boot Devices  list, select 1 as the primary boot path. 
 
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9.  At the  Select Two-Digit Number of  the Desired Boot Device prompt, enter the index of the...

 
Figure 18 
 
10.  Enter the LUN ID of the starting LUN at the pr ompt. The devices are scanned starting from the 
entered LUN ID. 
 
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11.  At the prompt, enter the index of the Boot device from the list.  
  

 
Figure 20 
 
12.  Select option 1,  Boot this device via WWPN . 
 
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13.  From the  Saved device list menu  (Figure17
), configure the alternate paths for boot devices by 
selecting the unused entries and repeating steps 9 to 12.   
14.  From  Emulex Adapters  menu (Figure 14
), configure the other HBAs by repeating steps 2 to 
13. 
15.  Exit from the BIOS menu and reboot the server. 
 
Note:  Refer to the “HP StorageWorks Booting Itanium Linux systems from a storage area network...

HP Smart Array P700m Controller ORCA Configuration  
 
To configure the boot device for high availability on HP ProLiant servers, complete the following 
steps:  
1.  While the server is booting, press F8 when the HP Smart Array P700m controller is 
discovered, to go to Option Rom  Configuration for Arrays (ORCA).  
2.  At the  Main Menu  of the ORCA utility, select  Select Boot Volume and press Enter. 
 
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3.  At  Boot Volume Enclosure Menu , select External and press Enter. 
 
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Figure 24 
 
5.  At  Menu Select Boot Volume , select the Lun to be configured as Boot partition. 
 
Figure 25 
 
6.  Press F8 to save as Boot Volume. 
 
Figure 26 
 
7.  Press Enter to configure alternate paths  to boot device, else go to Step 9. 
8.  At the  External Boot Volume Menu , select the other controller port WWID by repeating steps 
4 to 6. 
9.  Press ESC to exit the ORCA. 
  

HP SC08Ge SAS HBA configuration 
 
To configure the HP SC08Ge SAS HBA as the boot controller, complete the following steps:  
1. While the system is booting, press F9 to  start the ROM-Based BIOS Setup Utility.  
2.  Select  Boot Controller Order .  
a.   Select the  SCSI Mass Storage Controller , configured to provide the boot device and move 
it to Controller Order 1.  
b.   Incase of multiple HBAs , set to the next higher Controller Order.  
3.  Press Escape, and then press F10 to save  your...

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# Consult the IETF iSP iSCSI for details of these items. 
# 
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# Name of the iSCSI Target. Must match what the target offers. 
# Hard coded Target IP .. No DNS support 
# 
TargetName= iqn.1986-03.abc.as:asddfrt.dsa23243 
TargetIP=12.234.45.123 
TargetPort=3260 
TargetIP2=12.234.45.124 
TargetPort2=3260 
## 
# local name the iSCSI client will present to the Target 
# and local IP settings. No DNS or DHCP support 
# 
InitiatorName=iqn.1234-98.co m.asfd:19.23456ghg12:name...

Installing the operating systems 
Root partition on SAN has become popular with blade systems and virtualization technologies. 
Multipath feature support for operat ing system installation partitions was introduced with the latest 
operating system distributions. OS vendors have provided the feature for enabling high 
availability for the installa tion partitions on the SAN. 
 
To enable the high availability feature in RHEL  and SLES operating system, complete the following 
steps: 
 
Enabling the...

 
Figure 28 
 
b.   Select Add iSCSI targets and click  Add drive. 
 
Figure 29 
 
c.   Enable network Interface for the currently used NIC.  

 
Figure 30 
 
d.   Enter the target IP address. 
 
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e.   Repeat step a to d to add more iSCSI targets. 
 
4.  While creating partitions during the installation process, you will see multipath devices 
(/dev/mapper/mpath*). Create the installation partitions using multipath devices. 
Multipathing feature will be enabled for all  the operating system partitions created on 
multipath device during installation.