Users Guide

Selecting Fibre Channel storage area network in boot

sequence

Once the SAN boot device is visible as a hard disk drive in the hard disk drive sequence, select the SAN

boot device as the first boot device in hard disk drive sequence of BIOS or UEFI boot sequence.

Prerequisites

For more information, see Common prerequisites.

Before changing the boot sequence, ensure that operating system is already installed and is present on

the logical unit number (LUN) assigned to the server.

About this task

The following steps outline the workflow sequence:

Steps

1. In the BIOS Configuration screen, change the boot sequence for SAN boot device as the first boot

device. Click

Save As Profile to save the updated profile. For more information, see Changing the

BIOS or UEFI boot sequence and hard disk drive sequence.

2. From the Dell Lifecycle Controller Configuration Utility, select Hardware Configuration and

Operating System Deployment. In BIOS Configuration page, select Configure BIOS, and click

Browse, to select the BIOS or UEFI profile updated in step 1.

3. Select Do not deploy operating system in the advertisement screen, to skip deploying the operating

system on the collection and click Reboot targeted collection.

4. Launch the Task Viewer, to view the status of the completed tasks. For more information, see Task

Viewer.