From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 20:18:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D24116A417 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:18:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from krion@voodoo.bawue.com) Received: from voodoo.bawue.com (voodoo.bawue.com [212.9.161.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C80313C44B for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from krion@voodoo.bawue.com) Received: from krion by voodoo.bawue.com with local (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Idt4U-0003zd-Ex; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:42:50 +0200 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:42:50 +0200 From: Kirill Ponomarew To: The Presence Message-ID: <20071005194249.GH1299@voodoo.bawue.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-NIC-HDL: KP869-RIPE Keywords: 477273987 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 6.2 and booting from iSCSI X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:18:55 -0000 On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:56:08PM -0600, The Presence wrote: > I recently deployed a NetAPP S300 device, and I want to be able to load system OS from it. > > I have several HP DL380 G3 systems that I want to be able to boot from iSCSI, but I am not sure how to proceed. NetAPP states that the adapters I would want to do this are the QLA405x and QLA406x lines. Since the HP DL380 G3s 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 BIOS. > 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 file mode. > > Secondly, has anyone actually had this work with the HP DL380 G3? If so what HBA did you use to do it? Since the QLogic network cards start at around $800 or so, I don't want to make this a trial and error effort, if its avoidable. I think we don't support QLogic HBAs 4xxx. -Kirill