Configuring SAN Boot

In UEFI mode, the SAN boot function can be configured in either of the following ways:

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• Configuring SAN Boot on the MZ520 BIOS

  The following describes how to configure SAN boot in UEFI mode for the MZ520. Before the operation, change the boot mode of the compute node to UEFI. For details, see the BIOS Parameter Reference of the compute node.

To configure SAN Boot, perform the following steps:

1. When the following screen is displayed, press F11 to enter the Front Page screen.
   Figure 4-117 Pressing F11 to go to Front Page
   

2. On the Front Page screen, select Device Manager and press Enter.
   Figure 4-118 Selecting Device Manager
   

3. On the Device Manager screen, select Network Device List and press Enter.
   Figure 4-119 Selecting Network Device List
   

4. Select a port and press Enter. On the displayed screen, press Enter again to confirm the selection.
   Figure 4-120 Selecting a port
   
   Figure 4-121 Confirming the selection
   

5. On the Main Configuration Page screen, select Device Hardware Configuration and press Enter. On the Device Hardware Configuration screen, set UEFI Boot Mode to FCoE.
   Figure 4-122 Selecting Device Hardware Configuration
   
   Figure 4-123 Setting the boot mode to FCoE
   

6. Press Esc to return to the Main Configuration Page screen, select FCoE Boot Configuration Menu and then FCoE General Parameters. On the displayed screen, set Boot to FCoE Target to Enabled.
   Figure 4-124 Enabling FCoE SAN Boot
   

7. Return to the FCoE Boot Configuration Menu screen and select FCoE Target Parameters.

   Set Connect X (such as Connect 1) to Enabled and set WWPNs and boot LUNs. WWPNs 1 to 6 can be set through automatically scanning storage ports or manually selecting online storage ports. The plus sign (+) indicates that the port is online. The minus sign (-) indicates that the port is offline. To set WWPN 7 and WWPN 8, manually enter WWPNs.

   Figure 4-125 Selecting an online WWPN
   
   Figure 4-126 Setting the WWPN and LUN of the boot device
   

   If more than one boot item (Connect) is configured, the system preferentially boots from the one with a larger Connect number. For example, if Connect 1 and Connect 2 are both configured, the system boots preferentially boots from Connect 2.

8. Press Esc repeatedly until the Front Page screen is displayed.
9. Restart the compute node for the configuration to take effect.

• Configuring SAN Boot on the HMM WebUI

  The following describes how to configure MZ520 SAN boot in UEFI mode when stateless computing is enabled.

To configure SAN Boot, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the MM910 WebUI. For details, see "Logging In to the MM910 WebUI" in MM910 Management Module V100R001 User Guide.
2. Choose Stateless Computing > Stateless Computing Management > Profile, and click Add.

   The Add dialog box is displayed.

3. Enter the profile name, select Common, and click OK.
   Figure 4-37 shows an example.

   Figure 4-127 Creating a profile
   

4. In the Server BIOS Configuration area, choose Boot, select Boot type and set it to UEFI.
   Figure 4-128 Setting boot type
   

   The HMM WebUI supports settings of boot type parameters from version (U54) 5.85. If the software version is earlier than (U54) 5.85, you need to set the boot type on the BIOS. For details, see the BIOS Parameter Reference of the compute node you use.

5. Set the NIC slot status to On and select MZ520 from NIC Type, as shown in Figure 4-39.
   Figure 4-129 NIC configuration
   

6. Click and select the port to be set with SAN Boot.

   The following uses Port 0 as an example. Set the parameters as follows:

   • Select FCoE for Boot protocol.
   • Set FCoE boot to target to Enable.
   • Set Destination WWPN to the WWPN of the target storage port.
   • Set Destination LUN ID to the ID of the boot LUN.
   Figure 4-40 shows a configuration example.

   Figure 4-130 MEZZ1 configuration
   

7. Click Save.
8. Apply the profile.
   1. Click None in Associated Slots, select the slot to which the profile is to be delivered, and click OK.
   2. Click to deliver the profile.

      If the status changes to Delivered, the operation is successful.