On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:56:08PM -0600, The Presence wrote: > I recently deployed a NetAPP S300 device, and I want to be able to load > system OS from it. > > I have several HP DL380 G3 systems that I want to be able to boot from iSCSI, > but I am not sure how to proceed. NetAPP states that the adapters I would > want to do this are the QLA405x and QLA406x lines. Since the HP DL380 G3s > use PCI-X I need the QLA-4050 or the QLA-4052 adapters. Unfortunately, > QLogic states that they only support Windows, RHEL, and SuSE. > > Firstly, has anyone had any luck booting from any system with FreeBSD. My > main drivers here are: > > 1) I can do a bare-metal restore very simply. > 2) I can easily change base system by just changing the TOE parameters in > BIOS. > 3) I can have multiple systems have access to the same data without having to > have multiple copies of the data, but do this in block mode instead of file > mode. > > Secondly, has anyone actually had this work with the HP DL380 G3? If so what > HBA did you use to do it? Since the QLogic network cards start at around > $800 or so, I don't want to make this a trial and error effort, if its > avoidable.
I think we don't support QLogic HBAs 4xxx. -Kirill _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
