Iscsi Boot for cisco UCS blades

[asteroid4u]

Hi Team,

I am planiing for Iscsi SAN boot for ESXI hosts. I need  below suggestions pleae.

1. Type of ports to be configure for ISCSI traffic?

2. VPC is recommended or PC is recommended from Nexus5K to Fabric 6100?

3. From which firmware Iscsi boot is supported?

Thanks in advance

[Walter Dey]

Please check

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-manager/116003-iscsi-ucs-config-00.html

or

https://overlaid.net/2014/09/05/ucs-boot-from-iscsi/

For iSCSI boot support check support matrix

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/m_hcl_B_rel3-02.pdf

8 iSCSI Boot is supported. Both Appliance and Uplink ports are supported unless otherwise noted

9 Brocade Family FOS release trains, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 and their updates, unless otherwise stated are supported

10 UCS Fabric Interconnect must be in FC End Host mode and upstream switch NPIV enabled

11 iSCSI Boot is not supported on Windows Server Core

[asteroid4u]

Hi Walter Dey,

Just to confirm,

I am going with uplink ports of ISCSI boot and VPC in nexus side. I have attached my design. Please let me know is that fine.

Thanks,