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13–Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
FCoE Boot from SAN
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10. For BCM57800 and BCM57810 boards, the FCoE boot devices must have a
separate vSwitch other than vSwitch0. This switch allows DHCP to assign
the IP address to the management network rather than to the FCoE boot
device. To create a vSwitch for the FCoE boot devices, add the boot device
vmnics in vSphere Client on the Configuration page under Networking.
Figure 13-33 shows an example.
Figure 13-33. VMware vSphere Client Network Configuration
Configuring FCoE Boot from SAN on VMware
Note that each host must have access only to its own boot LUN—not to the boot
LUNs of other hosts. Use storage system software to ensure that the host
accesses only the designated LUNs.