NIM Introduction
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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

    • For assistance with implementing NIM under a Business Continuity environment in your data centers, please contact Mt Xia.

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