Users Guide

14–Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
FCoE Boot from SAN
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When the initiator boot starts, it begins DCBX sync, FIP Discovery, Fabric
Login, Target Login, and LUN readiness checks. As each of these phases
completes, if the initiator is unable to proceed to the next phase, MBA
presents the option to press the CTRL+R keys.
3. Press the CTRL+R keys.
4. When CTRL+R has been activated, the boot initiator maintains a link in
whatever phase has most recently succeeded and allows you time to make
the necessary provisioning corrections to proceed to the next phase.
5. If the initiator logs into the fabric, but is unable to log into the target, a
CTRL+R pauses the boot process and allows you to configure fabric zoning.
When zoning is complete, the initiator automatically logs into all visible
targets.
6. If the initiator is unable to discover the designated LUN on the designated
target as provisioned in Step 1, CTRL+R pauses the boot process and
allows you to configure selective LUN presentation.
7. The boot initiator periodically polls the LUN for readiness, and when you
have provisioned access to the LUN, the boot process automatically
proceeds.
One-Time Disabled
The QLogic FCoE ROM is implemented as Boot Entry Vector (BEV). In this
implementation, the Option ROM only connects to the target when it has been
selected by BIOS as the chosen boot device. This approach is different from other
implementations that will connect to the boot device even if another device has
been selected by the system BIOS.
NOTE
Ensure that you also put the boot initiator into one-time disabled mode
as described in One-Time Disabled.