Itanium equivalent of Alpha WWIDMGR

[Paul Whapshott]

Hi,

I am attemping to set up an itanium server to boot from our eva san. I know how to do this with Alpha with wwidmgr but can anyone point me in the right direction on how to do this with Itanium Server using EFI?

Regards,

Paul

[Torsten.]

What is your OS?

[Paul Whapshott]

Hi,

The Itanium initially will be booting VMS but also intime Windows and HPUX.

Regards,

Paul

[Torsten.]

Sorry, I can only suggest for HP-UX.

First, setup your zoning on the switch.
Boot to efi. The EFI scan during the boot will make the HBA WWN available to the EVA.
Present the disk.
Start the installation.
The install kernel will detect the LUN and provide it to you in the install screen.

By default, EFI is not "clever" enough to detect a LUN in a SAN. You can force EFI to do this, but normally it is not needed, because of the install utility is able to do this.

I guess it is the same more or less for other OS.

[Tom O'Toole]

By far the easiest way to set up boot from san for VMS/itanium is to boot the VMS distribution CD. Then get a DCL shell, and copy your local vms system disk (backup/image) to the SANdisk (might have to run sysman io auto to get the SAN disks configured). Then run

@sys$manage:boot_options

to set up a boot entry.

[R. Verkerk]

Paul,

We do it as follows:

Got to the EFI shell. install a OpenVMS DVD.
shell> fs0:
fs0:> cd efi\vms
fs0:> vms_bcfg boot fibre 1 !! enable fibre scanning
fs0:> reconnect -r
...
fs0:> map -r -Fs !! you will now see file systems.
If there is a boottable disk via the Fibre it will be shown

Now boot from it. And under OpenVMS set the boot via boot_options.com and you are set.

gr,

Robert

[kris rombauts]

Paul,

for the Windows SAN boot installation...

- download the .ISO image of the Integroty Smart Setup CD from www.hp.com, this has a assisted OS installation for Windows on it that works for SAN boot also. You can boot from this cd. If you use a Microsoft Windows install cd to install and not the HP re-install DVD media that you could buy (includes Windows license also) then make sure you have a cd with SP1 or SP2 slipstreamed since recent Integrity servers require SP1 as a minimum.



V5.1 is here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3257036&prodNameId=3257037&swEnvOID=1060&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=is-38986-7

V5.2 is also out but not downloadeable right now.


-The cd also contains some PDF doc's like smart_setup.pdf and sw_boot_san.pdf
which should help you out.



HTH

Kris