booting from VA7410

[Jeff Boling]

How can I boot my Windows 2000 Servers across fiber channel fabric from VA7410?

I can't find any documentation of this from HP, is it supported?

[Vincent Fleming]

The VA7410 is supported as a boot device when you use one of the following FC adapaters: Emulex LP8000, LP9002, Qlogic QLA2200F and QLA2310F. Emulex driver revs supported are 4-4.53a5, 4-4.53a7, 4-4.81a9; Qlogic driver revs are: 7.5.05, and 8.1.3.

There really isn't anything special about the VA configuration for booting from it; all the config details are part of the Host Adapters' BIOS. See the adapter BIOS docs for details on how to configure it to boot from the SAN.

Good luck!

[Peter Mattei]

If you boot from a directly attached Array everything is OK.
The problem is if you have the swap disk of Windows on the SAN. Windows has a poor recovery for the swap disk (timeouts etc), you could end up with a blue screen!
This is not just my opinion. Have a look at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q305547&

Cheers
Peter