
IMPORTANT: Care must be taken not to exceed the limit per physical server port. For example, if you configure 150 VLAN mappings for a server connection
Fibre Channel boot parameters
Virtual Connect Manager supports setting Fibre Channel boot parameters and enabling/disabling Fibre Channel boot. To access the Fibre Channel boot parameters, select the Fibre Channel Boot Parameters checkbox on the Define Server Profile screen (on page 182) or the Edit Server Profile screen (on page 205) under either the FC HBA connections or the FCoE connections, whichever is applicable.
There are four SAN Boot options:
•Use BIOS/EFI
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IMPORTANT: If Use BIOS is not selected, any parameters set on this screen override the settings used in other tools, such as RBSU.
A server blade must be powered on at least once with the mezzanine cards installed before Virtual Connect can properly set the device boot order. The BIOS must first discover the local devices before Virtual Connect can properly configure the boot order.
When a server blade is first powered on after profile assignment, any Fibre Channel HBA ports that have SAN boot enabled are configured. However, it may require a subsequent reboot for the boot controller order to be set correctly.
If the boot settings are changed in the RBSU, the Virtual Connect specified boot settings are not
If SAN boot is enabled for a port, be sure that the Target Port Name and LUN are entered correctly. For more information on SAN boot parameters, see the HP website (http://www.hp.com/go/storage).
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