MSA1000 with ProLiant BL series

[Max Sorokin]

Hi,

We have MSA1000 connected to ProLiaant BL enclosure. All BL servers without HDD. The question is, can i creater on MSA1000 one RAID5, divide this RAID in to partitions and assign each partition to particular BL server. In another words: can i boot BL servers from MSA?

Thanks,
Max

[Jefferson Humber]

Max,

SSP works at LUN level, not partition level.

The MSA won't know about partitions, so I don't think you could do this.

Jeff

[Max Sorokin]

Thanks, i found answer :)

[Ted Buis]

Enabling HP MSA1000 Boot from SAN for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant BL20p G2 Blade Servers http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/cache/70307-0-0-225-121.html
If you can boot from SAN on BL blades for LINUX, and WINDOWS too. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/softwaredrivers/msa1000/pl_blade.html

[Ted Buis]

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/storageworks/msa1000/technote_msa1000_ExternalBootSetup.pdf