Installation guide

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EMC Host Connectivity with QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs and CNAs in the Windows Environment
Installation and Configuration
How this guide works
In an effort to simplify the installation and configuration of QLogic
Fibre Channel adapters, this guide follows a simple flow chart, as
shown in Figure 1 on page 17, that guides you through the necessary
procedures to connect your Windows server to EMC storage arrays.
Tips on planning, miscellaneous procedures, and troubleshooting
information are located in Chapter 2, ”Miscellaneous Planning and
Procedures,” and Chapter 3, ”Troubleshooting.”
This document will guide you through the following steps:
1. “Installing the adapter” on page 18
2. “Booting from the external storage array” on page 26:
a. If not installing an IA-64 or EFI-based server:
– “Create a floppy disk with the EMC-approved driver and
BIOS” on page 26.
– “Install/upgrade firmware and boot BIOS from DOS” on
page 27.
– “QLogic Fibre Channel adapter BIOS/boot LUN settings”
on page 28.
– “Verifying array/LUN visibility for boot” on page 53.
b. If installing an IA-64 or EFI-based server:
– “Installing a RAMDISK under the EFI shell” on page 53
3. “Installing the Windows operating system” on page 55.
4. “Installing adapter driver and software utilities” on page 76.
5. “Verifying connectivity to the storage array” on page 128.
Downloading latest QLogic drivers/firmware/BIOS files
Throughout this document, there are references to updated files from
QLogic. All of the versions included on the QLogic CD packaged
with your adapter are current as of this documents release. However,
there may be updates to these files that may be necessary to
download. For these, use the QLogic website,
http://www.qlogic.com. From the main page on the QLogic website,
click Downloads on the top of the page. On the resulting support
page, click the EMC link under the OEM Models section. On the
resulting page, click the EMC Array category for your storage array.