Contents

Chapter 6

Connecting to the Storage

 

 

Zoning and connection planning in a Fibre Channel or Fibre

 

 

Channel over Ethernet environment

134

 

Planning procedure

134

 

Establishing connectivity to the storage array

134

 

Zoning and connection planning in an iSCSI environment

135

 

Configuring the QLA40xx-Series HBA to discover iSCSI

 

 

targets

136

 

Configuring persistent binding for the Linux QLogic iSCSI

 

 

HBA

137

 

Configuring persistent binding using SANsurferCLI

138

 

Unconfiguring persistent binding using SANsurferCLI

140

 

Installing the SANSurfer iSCSI GUI

142

 

Configuring persistent binding using the SANsurfer GUI

146

Chapter 7

Configuring a Boot Device on an EMC Storage Array

 

Introduction

152

 

Cautions and restrictions for booting from EMC storage

 

 

array

153

 

Symmetrix-specific cautions and restrictions

153

 

VNX series- or CLARiiON-specific cautions and

 

 

restrictions

153

 

Limitations

155

 

Common limitations

155

 

Symmetrix-specific limitations

156

 

VNX series- or CLARiiON-specific limitations

157

 

Configuring a Symmetrix boot device for FC or FCoE

158

 

Preparing the Symmetrix storage array

158

 

Preparing the host

158

 

Configuring the QLogic BIOS for SAN boot

159

 

Configuring a VNX series or CLARiiON boot device for FC

 

 

or FCoE

161

 

Preparing the VNX series or CLARiiON storage system....

161

 

Preparing the host

161

 

Configuring the QLogic BIOS for SAN boot

162

 

Installing the Linux operating systems with out of kernel

 

 

drivers onto a boot device using FCoE Adapters

165

 

RHEL 5 OS SAN-boot installation with QLogic FCoE

 

 

adapters

165

 

SLES10 OS SAN-boot installation with QLogic FCoE

 

 

adapters

166

EMC Host Connectivity with QLogic FC and iSCSI HBAs and FCoE CNAs for the Linux Environment

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