On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Svetoslav Tolev might have said: > Hi. > Some years ago (I think 2) I make a tests to boot Windows 2000 from ESS. > The configuration was as follow: > - IBM eServer xSeries 440 > - Windows 2000 Advanced Server (machines was with 4 CPU/8 GB RAM) > - QLogic 2300 adapter (IBM FC2-133 Host Adapter) > > The tests are successful, but there are some problems: > 1. IBM Doesn't support boot for xSeries (Intel based servers) from SAN, > but the Qlogic does > 2. There are some problems with updating SDD drivers (because I want to > use 2 paths to ESS for redundancy) > 3. As the result test was successful, but the customer agrees to me that > unsupported solution for production environment is bad idea.
That's good data. I'm trying to convince my/our windows admin to move to san booting. We have some IBM xseries and some dell. Does anyone know about booting pseries from san? Mike