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Appendix D Installation in the SAN Boot Environment
D.2 Procedure for Setting Up the SAN Boot
Environment
Set up the SAN boot environment as follows:
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Design the SAN boot environment.
Design the environment including the PRIMEQUEST machine and SAN storage
allocation, connections, and IP addresses. The reliability that can be obtained
depends greatly on the topologies of the PRIMEQUEST machine, SAN storage,
and FC switches. Select the necessary items and forms of connections that satisfy
requirements.
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Make SAN boot settings for the PRIMEQUEST machine.
Set up the SAN storage units and PRIMEQUEST machine according to the
configuration design. The Fibre Channel EFI driver must be configured.
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Set up SAN storage and FC switches.
Mount, connect, configure, and tune the SAN storage units and FC switches
according to the connection diagram prepared during environment design.
D.3 Design
An important part of designing the SAN boot environment is to design a topology
(connection configuration) based on the business size.
This section describes two recommended SAN boot configurations in Windows
systems: 2-path configuration and 4-path configuration.
Notes:
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Fujitsu recommends the 4-path configuration in consideration of boot
reliability. Consider expanding or changing it depending on the
business size.
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The configuration used in this section includes FC cards. The
configuration may need to be changed depending on the cards that are
added.