Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:42:50 +0200 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com> To: The Presence <tpresence@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 6.2 and booting from iSCSI Message-ID: <20071005194249.GH1299@voodoo.bawue.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY121-W683F78B17FE85CB0FAECEA2A90@phx.gbl> References: <BAY121-W683F78B17FE85CB0FAECEA2A90@phx.gbl>
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:56:08PM -0600, The Presence wrote: > I recently deployed a NetAPP S300 device, and I want to be able to load system OS from it. > > I have several HP DL380 G3 systems that I want to be able to boot from iSCSI, but I am not sure how to proceed. NetAPP states that the adapters I would want to do this are the QLA405x and QLA406x lines. Since the HP DL380 G3s use PCI-X I need the QLA-4050 or the QLA-4052 adapters. Unfortunately, QLogic states that they only support Windows, RHEL, and SuSE. > > Firstly, has anyone had any luck booting from any system with FreeBSD. My main drivers here are: > > 1) I can do a bare-metal restore very simply. > 2) I can easily change base system by just changing the TOE parameters in BIOS. > 3) I can have multiple systems have access to the same data without having to have multiple copies of the data, but do this in block mode instead of file mode. > > Secondly, has anyone actually had this work with the HP DL380 G3? If so what HBA did you use to do it? Since the QLogic network cards start at around $800 or so, I don't want to make this a trial and error effort, if its avoidable. I think we don't support QLogic HBAs 4xxx. -Kirill
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