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• ESXi 3.5 U4 - Boot from SAN?

  Greetings,

  In the last ESXi 3.5 seemed to have a restriction in that the installation has failed for the start of the SAN.  For me, it would be the series Emulex LP11000 I work like SAN for ESX 3.5 boot but not ESXi 3.5.

  Now that U4 is out, does anyone know if VMWare can now boot from SAN?

  Thank you

  Stan

  Currently, don't think so.  There are experimental new PXE boot support, if you want to have a centralized boot image storage location.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• UCS Boot from SAN

  Hello

  I hope boot us from SAN, is UCS capable of automatically failing on OS start path, fabric case of failure? If the answer is NO, is there not a serious problem of booting from SAN?

  Thank you very much

  Multipathing is applied at startup and data lun and is independent of the policy of the boot

  I'm sorry that I do not understand where I misused the term automatic.

  The policy of the boot is a static, very simple construction: first use the first path to start; it it fails, try the other?

  CF Multipathing, regarding once the server is up and running: before the failure of tissue, you have 2 paths, after only one path to the LUNs (data and start-up).

  If all uplinks to the North switch failure, or a whole tissue, UCSM report link to all NICs for/vhba of this fabric. (default setting for network control strategy-> Action on the failure of the uplink-> link down)

• install ESXi on UCS to boot from SAN

  Hello

  I have ucs and I need to boot from SAN

  I need to confirm something

  When I was installing WindowsServer the UCS to boot from SAN. I have attached the iso drivers for the HBA driver so that the blade can detect the boot LUN.

  Now, I'm going to install ESXi. Do you know if I need to use the iso as drivers for the HBA as with windows or ESXi detects this and will present me the boot LUN to start the installation?

  We will use the ESXi, VMware no custom of Cisco

  Thank you

  Hello

  A major difference:

  MSFT Windows has no drivers of enic fnic UCS preinstalled with the distribution of iso.

  ESXi has, but most likely not one who demands that the UCS support matrix.

  See http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

  Therefore you install ESXi ISO of the distribution, and then you update the drivers of the enic/fnic

  See http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/vic_driver...

• 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

• Boot from SAN with 4 HBAs

  Hello

  What are the guildlines for boot from SAN with 4 fibre HBA.
  Our HP Blades originally had 2 available Qlogic host bus adapters.  I have always chosen a boot on both device and the servers never had a problem starting.  Recently we add a second back-end connectivity map and associates of mezzanine on the HP to allow everything.  On the SAN and blade we show 4 HBAs.  Now when booting of servers, we have stuck in the bootloader GRUB.  This has happened on a server that has already been built and when we reinstalled.  What are the guidelines for booting from the San with multiple HBAs.  We use ESX 4.1.

  Hello

  The general rule is that boot from SAN works on HBA cards in the lowest PCI slot.

  I don't know what rules HP uses to translate slots PCI mezzanine cards.

• boot from san ESXi 4.1 on IBM Blade

  Hello community,

  I'm trying to BFS on a blade IBM HS22 blade.

  The SAN is a DS4700...

  Then, don't worry pour assign LUNS to the blade, I can mount ISO install ESXi4.1 and boot from it, do the deployment.

  But I can't boot from it at the next restart... Finally half I managed on a blade, and not another (her twin), each with well hidden and separate LUNS.

  Do you have an idea of how to set up the BIOS of the blade (and possibly of the QLogic card) pour booter from SAN?

  On the blade or it works, and ben is totally by chance, in fact...

  If you've done this, and BIOS the who HS22 blade, I'm interested to set up parameters pour un BFS correct!

  Thank you in advance.

  Hi Pilow,

  Activate the of there are BIOS of the HBA cards and tell them about what boot LUN. Take a look at this article for more info.

  A +.

  Franck

• ESXi 3.5 Update 4 virtual machines cannot boot from ISO image stored on the server

  Ok

  If I have one of my virtual machines of ESXi configured to use an ISO image sitting on my server ESXi, they cannot boot from this image.  This is after you click "ESC" during startup in order to change the startup CD-ROM.  I have this a known issue, or I'm just doing something wrong?  If I have the vms use an ISO sitting on my desktop (using Infrastructure Client) it works fine.

  Or the answer is even simpler, make sure I connect at power on.

  OK, Yes!  But some of the things we take for granted... haha...

• Boot from SAN Configuration Question

  Asked me to start deloying new hosts ESX 3.5 using Boot from SAN.  All the documentation I've found is clear on the configuration of HBAS and SAN lun.  I tried to find out what the correct design for the HBA boot ports and storage used.  Does anyone have info on the Boot/operating system as well as the storage of data on the same HBA ports.  This design would be only two HBA by using a port of each for failover.  I also plans to isolate the boot/OS on his own two redundant ports but get resistance from my SAN Group on the fact we use two additional ports turned on by host.  After a few unsuccessful attempts with VMware support, I finally got someone to give me one different answer a document on how to put in place the HBA and SAN.  I was told that sharing should be fine but I also met some files indicating that you must keep them separately.

  Hello

  There is no question share the wwn for a startup process.

  The key here is to always book LUN 0 for the reader to boot/OS on all systems.

  I have 12 guests thanks to her, and there is no sound technical reason to isolate him.

  Kind regards

  Mike

  http://blog.laspina.ca/

• Miix2 10: Boot from USB - Image-Backup

  I want the image backup my "nine" 10 boot from a WinPE Acronis True Image Home 2013 USB Stick Miix2.

  But: The Tablet does not start this (or another) stick. I tried with enabling / disabling startup secure without success.

  What BIOS settings must be used, and what are the prerequisites for a bootable for Miix2 10?

  Thank you very much
  Michael

  Hello

  can't speak for Acronis WinPE, but Macrium reflect WinPE (32-bit indeed) boots fine and works well on Black 2 10 "." I'm starting last Macrium reflect WinPE CD ISO via USB optical drive emulator, but other dΘmarrez successfully for ordinary USB flash.

  With the Tablet turned off, press Vol - and keep it pressed all by pressing the power button / stop for entering the UEFI boot menu.

  EDIT: haven't touched the other BIOS settings that secure boot power down. There is not much to do in the BIOS/UEFI anyway until Lenovo decided to hide all the interesting parameters of we...

  Tomas

• Cannot boot from ISO image

  Hello

  I have a server ESXi 4.0 on a four-core AMD machine. I'm trying to start a win XP VM using an ISO image (which I already downloaded to the data store on the server using the VSphere client).

  In the settings of the virtual machine, I changed the boot sequence to boot from the CD, but it never starts CD. It still gives this error:

  PXE - E51: no DHCP or proxyDHCP received

  PXE - M0F: Exit Intel PXE ROM

  Operating system not found

  I tried with options but I was not able to start this machine to install the virtual machine. Any ideas?

  Thank you

  Omer

  The option, during startup, allows to manually select the CD player (that would be the ISO image)... Also, make sure that the cd/dvd drive is on "sign in to turn on. If the MV is running, you can also select / the checkbox 'connected '. If you have not configured to connect to turn on, then it will never see the drive, then you will not be able to boot from the ISO file...

  VMware VCP4

  Review the allocation of points for "useful" or "right" answers.

• ESXi 4 Boot from SAN?

  I heard that booting from the San with ESXi is supported with the 4.0, but someone tried?  I'm looking at a fervent IBM DS3200 SAS for a small deployment I work on and I wanted to check it works for others before that I have try.

  Mike

  Hi Mike,.

  This works. You must configure SAN setting first in the BIOS. Then the Setup program will detect the LUN. other things are almost the same as the installation on a local hard drive.

  Best regards

  shsun

• ESX boot from SAN or Local HD

  How will I know if ESX is configured to boot from the SAN or a Local HD?

  and the doc says to unplug the cables of fiber... and if I don't then he used to find the partition...

  Yes, it's a precautionary measure.  However, whenever you make a change of generation, it is best to reinstall from scratch, existing operating system upgrade.  This makes things work better.  So, when you do an installation, you have the option to select started SAN or Local.

  With an upgrade anyway, it will upgrade the existing installation binaries and will not make changes anyway, so no need to disconnect the fiber, nothing will be reformatted during this step, but a NEW install Yes.

• boot from san esxi5 support

  Start Esxi5 support from san?

  Indeed, it does:

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/topic/com.VMware.vSphere.storage.doc_50/GUID-2A66A330-A9E5-460B-8982-54A1B1C38C02.html

  / Rubeck

• Boot from SAN (iSCSI) No. hypervisor found 5.5

  Here is my config:

  VNX5400

  UCS blade

  10 GB LUNS dedicated to blade.

  VSphere 5.5 (image from Cisco)

  ESXi 5.5 installation is done correctly to the iscsi LUN, but on reboot, start the VMware hypervisor type recovery server.

  Says:

  BANK5: not a VMware boot Bank

  BANK6: not a VMware boot Bank

  No found hypervisor.

  I tried:

  UEFI vs legacy boot (before installing it as well as after the installation is complete)

  checked the mtu 9000 vnx nec and ucs iSCSI NICs

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Jim

  Yes - I found a shift of MTU.   Everything works fine now.