Qmh2462 boot from san windows 2008

Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. These will be running Exchange in a CCR deployment. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. These will be running Exchange in a CCR deployment. I have setup each server to boot from SAN. I understand that I will not be getting crash dumps with this scenario but we can change the swap location in the eventuallity that we do need to do intense t-shooting. This requirement exists because booting from a SAN is complex, and the vendor needs to support the particular configuration because the SAN vendor provides the SAN boot supportability statement.

It is important to note that the information that is included in this article is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the items that are required to boot from a SAN. The SAN vendor must provide specific steps, drivers, firmware revisions, and resources about how to make their hardware storage systems, switches, Host Bus Adapters, and so on work properly together.

To boot multiple computers from a SAN, the SAN must either be configured in a switched environment, or it must be directly attached from each host to one of the storage subsystem's Fibre Channel ports. A switched environment allows the hosts to be separate from each other.

The host must have exclusive access to the disk that it is booting from. No other host on the SAN should be able to detect or have access to the same logical disk.

Windows provide no capabilities for mapping LUNs. Multi-path software and multiple HBAs improve your chances of recovery from a path failure. The purpose of having multiple HBAs in a single host is to have redundancy and possibly increased throughput. However, if a failure occurs and a path to the SAN is lost, there may be a period of time where the drives on the SAN are not accessible. This path failure may cause problems with the Windows server.

All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Honored Contributor. It contains all the drivers that You need. Remember to give Kudos to answers! Just to be more precise, i'm not able to install Windows Server R2 because Windows setup asks me for drivers. So a PSP can't help me at this point. CU, Sven. If the instructions below to do not help, then: 1. Is it the 4 GB Qlogic? What driver version did you load?