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3 Deployment and Migration of Boot from SAN Configuration using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise version
3.3.1
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Boot from SAN operation using OpenManage Enterprise – basic requirements ......................................................... 5
2 Configure boot from SAN operation using OpenManage Enterprise – overview ......................................................... 6
3 Configure boot from SAN with the iSCSI protocol ....................................................................................................... 7
3.1 Create a base system ......................................................................................................................................... 7
3.2 Capture the base system template ................................................................................................................... 10
3.3 Create an iSCSI -defined identity pool ............................................................................................................. 11
3.4 Associate the iSCSI -defined identity pool with the captured base system template ....................................... 13
3.5 Deploy the base system template .................................................................................................................... 14
3.6 Boot to SAN via iSCSI ..................................................................................................................................... 17
4 Configuring servers for boot from SAN with FC Protocol ........................................................................................... 20
4.1 Creation of a base system ................................................................................................................................ 20
4.2 Capture the base system template ................................................................................................................... 22
4.3 Create an FC-defined Identity pool ................................................................................................................... 23
4.4 Associate an FC-defined identity pool to the captured base system template ................................................ 25
4.5 Deploy the base system template .................................................................................................................... 26
4.6 Booting to SAN via FC ...................................................................................................................................... 29
5 Migration of Identities in OpenManage Enterprise ..................................................................................................... 31