Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:56:08 -0600 From: The Presence <tpresence@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Freebsd 6.2 and booting from iSCSI Message-ID: <BAY121-W683F78B17FE85CB0FAECEA2A90@phx.gbl>
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I recently deployed a NetAPP S300 device, and I want to be able to load sys= tem OS from it. I have several HP DL380 G3 systems that I want to be able to boot from iSCS= I, but I am not sure how to proceed. NetAPP states that the adapters I wou= ld want to do this are the QLA405x and QLA406x lines. Since the HP DL380 G= 3s use PCI-X I need the QLA-4050 or the QLA-4052 adapters. Unfortunately, = QLogic states that they only support Windows, RHEL, and SuSE. Firstly, has anyone had any luck booting from any system with FreeBSD. My = main drivers here are: 1) I can do a bare-metal restore very simply. 2) I can easily change base system by just changing the TOE parameters in B= IOS. 3) I can have multiple systems have access to the same data without having = to have multiple copies of the data, but do this in block mode instead of f= ile mode. Secondly, has anyone actually had this work with the HP DL380 G3? If so wh= at HBA did you use to do it? Since the QLogic network cards start at aroun= d $800 or so, I don't want to make this a trial and error effort, if its av= oidable. Kevin _________________________________________________________________ Boo!=A0Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare= ! http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_cid=3Dwl_hotma= ilnews=
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