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