Slide 7

Diskless Booting

• Diskless Clients

  • Currently, Mt Xia has no diskless clients booting from the NIM Server.

• Boot from SAN

  • The desired configuration is for all Unix servers to boot from SAN disk
  • Unix Servers shall not contain any internal disk
  • NIM installation of operating system is performed to SAN attached disk, virtual SAN disk, or logical volume presented as a virtual SAN disk
  • Requires each Unix server to have multiple HBA's for redundant access to SAN disk
    • HBA's may be real or virtual
  • Requires coordination and cooperation between Unix and Storage groups