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