HP StorageWorks Booting Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems from a Storage Area Network Application Notes

About this document

These ap plication notes describe storage area network (SAN) bo ot setup procedures on Windows

Server™ 2003 for Itanium

-based systems for speciﬁc software solutions, Fibre Channel host bus adapter

(HBA) ﬁrmwa

re versions, and Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) driver versions.

For the latest version of these application notes and other documentation, see the HP storage web site

ttp://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure.html.

Application notes information

These application notes contain the follow ing major topics:

•Introduction, page 2

• Required hardware and software,page2

•

Restrictions, page 3

• Prerequisites, page 5

• Storport minipor t driver supp ort for boot from SAN conﬁgurations,page 12

• Setting up the server,page14

• Updating the HBA ﬁrmware and EFI driver,page15

•

Installing the operating system, page 19

Intended audience

This document is intended for customers who are familiar with:

• Enterpr

ise

Virtual Arrays (EVAs)

• Modular Smart Arrays (MSAs)

• XP Disk Arrays (XP)

• Window

Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems

• HBAs

• Switch zoning and conﬁguration

• HP Int

egrity servers

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Booting Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems from a storage area network application notes