Installation guide

EMC Host Connectivity with QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs and CNAs in the Windows Environment

Installation and Configuration

With the latest BIOS installed, configure and verify the BIOS settings

to use the EMC storage array as the boot disk. Ensure that only a

single I/O path to the LUN exists when installing the OS. A single

adapter should have access to only a single array port at this point.

QLogic Fibre Channel adapter BIOS/boot LUN settings

This section describes the steps required to configure a QLogic

adapter boot BIOS for allowing an array-attached LUN to be used as

a boot disk for the server.

This section assumes the following steps have been completed:

◆ The QLogic adapter's BIOS and NVRAM settings are updated to

the latest version. Refer to “Install/upgrade firmware and boot

BIOS from DOS” on page 27 for details.

◆ In direct-attach configurations, an adapter has a physical

connection to the array port.

◆ In fabric-attach configurations, an adapter has a physical

connection to the switch/fabric, and has been zoned to the array,

so a single adapter to be used for boot has one logical I/O path to

the array. Refer to your switch documentation for details.

Before configuring adapter settings to boot from an array-based

LUN, your server's settings should be adjusted to disable booting

from an internal system drive. The procedure for disabling boot from

an internal system drive is largely dependent upon the server

platform.

◆ In some instances, internal boot can be disabled via entering the

onboard SCSI/RAID controller's BIOS utility. For example, an

Adaptec based controller can be configured by pressing CTRL-A,

when the Adaptec banner is displayed during Power-On Self Test

(POST).

◆ Some servers will require entering the system BIOS utility to

either disable boot from an internal drive, or to change the

controller boot order, so the boot adapter is enumerated before

the internal disk controller, allowing the array-attached LUN to

be the first disk visible to the server. Refer to your server

documentation for details.