Boot from SAN and vSphere/ESXi 5.x

[thehxman101]

Hello,

This will be our first deployment using UCS 2.x with 5108/B200/6248UP/M81KR Cisco hardware with an EMC VNX5100 directly connected to the Interconnects.

I was wondering if anyone had a cheat sheet/cookbook for these boot from SAN architectures?

Thanks

[cparik]

Hi,

You can refer to the link below for boot from san settings.

This is a generic document and not specific to your configuration, and it only covers the UCS configuration. But it looks like a good place to start from.

http://jeffsaidso.com/2010/11/boot-from-san-101-with-cisco-ucs/

I hope this is helpful.

--Chetan

[cparik]

In addition to the above document. You can also refer the below link to install ESX on UCS blades.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/b/os/vmware/install/VMWARE-esxi-install.html#wp1053494

[rewilkin]

hx,

Be aware you will not have the ability to zone since you are direct connecting to the FI's

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[Tom MacDonald]

I do believe he can do some LUN masking from the EMC side can he not????

[rewilkin]

yes, storage masking from the array side is available, but when you direct connect to the FI's, you have no means of zoning.

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