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Configuring a CLARiiON boot device
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Configuring a Boot Device on the EMC Storage Array
Configuring a CLARiiON boot device
You can use either a native-named device or emcpower device as a
boot device. If using an emcpower device, the host adapter on the
emcpower device must support booting in its FCode.
Using a PowerPath device as the boot device provides load balancing
and path failover for the boot device. Native-named devices,
however, do not provide boot time boot path failover.
Note: This procedure assumes that PowerPath is already installed.
IMPORTANT
!
If setting the boot disk with Solaris 10, the target/LUN of the boot
device must be defined in the /kernel/drv/sd.conf file.
Booting from a native Solaris device
Follow these steps to use a native device:
1. Select the LUN that will be used for booting by running the
format command.
2. On the target LUN selected in step 1, create
/, /usr, /var,
/export/home, /var, /opt, swap, and any other required
partitions that match the current boot disk's partitions.
You must make all of the partitions greater than that of the
current boot disk's partitions.
3. Label the disk to save the updated partitions by issuing the label
command while still in the
format utility.
4. Create a new file system for each partition, excluding
swap and
backup.
Root partition example:
newfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0
5. Create a directory and mount each partition as in the following
example:
mkdir /bootarray
mount /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0 /bootarray
mkdir /bootarray/usr
mount /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s6 /bootarray/usr