Boot from SAN

I started to work with Vsphere very recently, can someone guide on the basic operation to do during the installation of an operating system Win as Boot from SAN.

you ask you want to create a virtual machine and your plan is to install windows OS in it, but it is recommended to implement Boot from SAN?

If that's what you ask

in this case, a SAN LUN that is obvious to the virtual machine as the RDM and you use it as your boot disk for the guest OS VM. I would recommend to still use the virtual disk for this purpose. I just listed a URL in the following list, which will give you use RDM cases.

try to explore RDM on the following documentation

VMware vSphere 4 - ESX and vCenter Server

How to add the disc RDM to VM with vSphere Client

VMware vSphere 5.1

RDM use cases

http://www.vmwarearena.com/2013/02/raw-device-mapping-RDM-use-cases.html

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