On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:55 -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Hi, > > I have blade servers that I'd like to boot directly on an iSCSI drive. > Is it possible on RHEL5? Will it be possible in RHEL6? > > I saw this: http://iscsi-init.sourceforge.net/HOWTO.html. Would that be > a solution?
I'd suggest an iSCSI HBA if you want to go this route. We boot quite a number of systems via iSCSI with Qlogic iSCSI HBA's, including several RHEL4 and RHEL5 systems (well, actually only a couple of RHEL4 systems left). My experiences with software iSCSI boot were far less successful. Just took too many hacks and broke too many ways. I'll admit we haven't tried in almost two years, so support may have improved. We have considered buying our new blades with SSD drives for the OS boot/root, and using software iSCSI for everything else, or even just network booting them, but for now iSCSI HBA's have worked well for us. Later, Tom _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
