6.0.1

Table Of Contents
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Booting ESXi from Fibre Channel SAN 49
Boot from SAN Benets 49
Boot from Fibre Channel SAN Requirements and Considerations 50
Geing Ready for Boot from SAN 50
Congure Emulex HBA to Boot from SAN 52
Congure QLogic HBA to Boot from SAN 53
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Booting ESXi with Software FCoE 55
Requirements and Considerations for Software FCoE Boot 55
Best Practices for Software FCoE Boot 56
Set Up Software FCoE Boot 56
Troubleshooting Installation and Boot from Software FCoE 57
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Best Practices for Fibre Channel Storage 59
Preventing Fibre Channel SAN Problems 59
Disable Automatic Host Registration 60
Optimizing Fibre Channel SAN Storage Performance 60
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Using ESXi with iSCSI SAN 63
iSCSI SAN Concepts 63
How Virtual Machines Access Data on an iSCSI SAN 68
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Conguring iSCSI Adapters and
Storage 69
ESXi iSCSI SAN Requirements 70
ESXi iSCSI SAN Restrictions 70
Seing LUN Allocations for iSCSI 70
Network Conguration and Authentication 71
Set Up Independent Hardware iSCSI Adapters 71
About Dependent Hardware iSCSI Adapters 74
About the Software iSCSI Adapter 81
Modify General Properties for iSCSI Adapters 87
Seing Up iSCSI Network 88
Using Jumbo Frames with iSCSI 95
Conguring Discovery Addresses for iSCSI Adapters 97
Conguring CHAP Parameters for iSCSI Adapters 98
Conguring Advanced Parameters for iSCSI 102
iSCSI Session Management 103
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Booting from iSCSI SAN 107
General Boot from iSCSI SAN Recommendations 107
Prepare the iSCSI SAN 108
Congure Independent Hardware iSCSI Adapter for SAN Boot 108
iBFT iSCSI Boot Overview 109
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Best Practices for iSCSI Storage 115
Preventing iSCSI SAN Problems 115
Optimizing iSCSI SAN Storage Performance 116
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