Re: Boot from FC SAN problem



You need to ensure that you are booting from different luns

Another couple of questions - how has zoning been implemented
How is lun masking being achieved in you're configuration?

thks

Stuart.

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:34:31 -0500, ohaya <ohaya@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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>
>m.mazurek@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have HP blade serwers with Adaptec SAN attached to it. Linux on
>> servers. The problem with booting from SAN is when one blade server
>> booted from SAN is working and second is booting, first is loosing
>> connection to it's storage. It looks like booting the other server breaks
>> frist server connection to SAN.
>> I did another test and booted a non-blade server from hdd and mounted SAN storge,
>> then I booted blade server from SAN. It was enough to reboot the hdd
>> booted server to brake SAN connection to blade server. Anybode seen
>> something like this? Any hints?
>
>
>mazek,
>
>When you run into this problem, are both servers trying to boot from the
>same LUN on the SAN? I think that you need one LUN for each server to
>boot off of.
>
>Jim
.



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