Installation guide

EMC Host Connectivity with QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs and CNAs in the Windows Environment
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Preface............................................................................................................................ 11
Chapter 1 Installation and Configuration
How this guide works...................................................................... 16
Downloading latest QLogic drivers/firmware/BIOS
files............................................................................................... 16
Installing the adapter ....................................................................... 18
Special installation sequence for Stratus ftServers and
EMC VNX series or CLARiiON systems................................ 19
Matching the adapter with the correct PCI slot.................... 20
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).............................................. 25
Booting from the external storage array........................................ 26
Create a floppy disk with the EMC-approved driver and
BIOS............................................................................................. 26
Install/upgrade firmware and boot BIOS from DOS........... 27
QLogic Fibre Channel adapter BIOS/boot LUN settings.... 28
Verifying array/LUN visibility for boot................................ 53
Installing a RAMDISK under the EFI shell............................ 53
Installing the Windows operating system..................................... 55
Windows 2000/2003 internal or external boot disk
installation .................................................................................. 55
Windows 2008 internal or external boot disk installation... 63
Windows 2008 Server Core operating system option.................. 73
Limitations.................................................................................. 74
EMC support.............................................................................. 74
Installing adapter driver and software utilities............................ 76
Pre-installation guidelines........................................................ 76
Driver installation/upgrade.................................................... 77
Post-installation procedures..................................................... 86
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