EMC QLA22xx, QLA23xx manual Preparing the Storage System

Media Requirements

Preparing the Storage System

Configuring an EMC Boot Device

Required media includes the following:

Refer to Downloading QLogic Drivers and Firmware on page 2-2.

◆Latest EMC-approved Fibre Channel PCI HBA Driver Kit for Windows

◆Latest EMC-approved Fibre Channel PCI HBA firmware

◆MS-DOS boot diskette.

Boot device support requires a Navisphere Management station with Navisphere Manager or CLI. The station must be separate from the boot server but networked to the storage system (FC4700 and later model arrays) or connected to the storage system (models earlier than FC4700).

Before you can install Windows onto a storage system, the storage system must have at least one bound LUN in a Storage Group for the boot server. The LUN must be owned by the SP connected to the boot HBA.

For Windows NT 4.0, the host system boot LUN must be assigned Host LUN ID 0 by the EMC storage array. (MSKB Q218974)

During this installation procedure, you should have only one LUN in the boot Storage Group, so that you can easily identify the boot LUN. Later, you can add other LUNs to this Storage Group.

If you need to create a LUN, refer to the EMC ControlCenter Navisphere Management software documentation for your array type.

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