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HPE ProLiant 460c Gen - SAN-Boot

 
EugenRodekuhr
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HPE ProLiant 460c Gen - SAN-Boot

Hello All,

We are running a VMware farm for one of our european major accounts.

We use 233 ESXi Servers based on VMware 6.5.

24 Systems are Synergy Server and 140 are Blade systems.

All these systems are booting from an SD-Card.

As we do not want  to bay 328 HDDS the opnly way is to boot from, because we need to upgrade to VMware 7.0 and this does support boot from SD.

All system have an dedicated FC-Mezzanine-Cards..

However right now I do neither see them in the boot sequence nor can I access the bios of these cards to enter the boot lun.

For that reason I am not able to boot from SAN.

How can I achive this?

 

Or can't I boot from Mezzanine.

Any feedback is welcome.

 

By the way all firmeware and BIOS are on the latest available levle.

Regards

 

Eugen

 

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TVVJ
HPE Pro

Re: HPE ProLiant 460c Gen - SAN-Boot

Hello,

You may refer to these documents and see if they are helpful:

a. HPE Boot from SAN Configuration Guide

b. UEFI Deployment Guide for HPE ProLiant Gen10, Proliant Gen10 Plus Servers and HPE Synergy > Booting from FC/FCoE SAN

Regards,



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EugenRodekuhr
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Re: HPE ProLiant 460c Gen - SAN-Boot

Will check the docs and will then come back with feedback

EugenRodekuhr
Occasional Contributor

Re: HPE ProLiant 460c Gen - SAN-Boot

So far I was not able to get it working at all.

Most of the procedures described in the documents are not available in Blade BIOS.

Is it possible to boot from the Mezzanine-Card?

I found a lot of ducuments describing howto boot from LOM, but nothing related to mezzanine cards.

On the other side I have not something about not to be able to boot from mezzanine.

Regards

 

Eugen

Tam92
HPE Pro

Re: HPE ProLiant 460c Gen - SAN-Boot

Hello Eugen,

 

You should be able to achieve boot from SAN from FC Mezannine HBA's.

 

However the boot from SAN functionality should be enabled from the card BIOS settings.

 

You may refer to the below documents for more information

 

https://techlibrary.hpe.com/docs/enterprise/servers/icsp/webhelp/content/s_osdbuildplan_how_SANboot.html

https://techlibrary.hpe.com/docs/enterprise/servers/icsp/webhelp/content/s_osdbuildplan_how_configFCHBA.html

 

 

Thanks,

TAM



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