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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Booting off of a SAN Post 302294575 by FredSmith on Thursday 5th of March 2009 12:20:21 PM
Old 03-05-2009
Booting off of a SAN

Hello,
I'm posting this in the "Unix for Dummies" forum, since it is more of a theoretical question than an exact problem/fix I'm inquiring about.

I have a SunFire T2000 server with 4 internal hard drives, running Solaris 10. (So far so good Smilie

The company just purchased a large EMC SAN.

Now the question: Is it "possible" to essentially make those 4 disks be 4 LUNs on the SAN, remove the 4 drives internal to the T2000, and fully run (boot and operate) off of data stored within the SAN??

What the the pros/cons? Any high-level steps to doing this? In theory at least, it seems pretty do-able.

Thanks for any inputs!!!
 

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hbaapi(3C)																hbaapi(3C)

NAME
hbaapi - Fibre Channel Storage Network Industry Association Host Bus Adapter Application Programming Interface (FC SNIA HBA API) DESCRIPTION
The Common HBA API provides a consistent HBA standard interface for accessing information in a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) that would be implemented across vendors as a standard 'C' API supported by vendor specific library instances. This API library is thread-safe, but threads should not be cancelled when execution is in the API. The following functions are available in the API for managing a Fibre Channel HBA. This API would be exposed to upper level applications to control SAN functionality. Please refer to for details on structures used. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. FCP Information Functions require that the applications calling them have an effective user id as that of the root user (euid = 0). 20. 21. 22. SCSI Information Functions require that the applications calling them have an effective user id as that of the root user (euid = 0). 23. 24. FILES
Contains the related data structures and definitions as in AUTHOR
These APIs were developed by Hewlett-Packard Company. SEE ALSO
HBA_GetVersion(3C), HBA_LoadLibrary(3C), HBA_FreeLibrary(3C), HBA_GetNumberOfAdapters(3C), HBA_GetAdapterName(3C), HBA_OpenAdapter(3C), HBA_CloseAdapter(3C), HBA_GetAdapterAttributes(3C), HBA_GetAdapterPortAttributes(3C), HBA_GetPortStatistics(3C), HBA_GetDiscoveredPortAt- tributes(3C), HBA_GetPortAttributesByWWN(3C), HBA_SendCTPassThru(3C), HBA_GetEventBuffer(3C), HBA_SetRNIDMgmtInfo(3C), HBA_GetRNIDMgmt- Info(3C), HBA_SendRNID(3C), HBA_GetFcpTargetMapping(3C), HBA_GetFcpPersistentBinding(3C), HBA_SendScsiInquiry(3C), HBA_SendReportLUNs(3C), HBA_SendReadCapacity(3C), HBA_RefreshInformation(3C), HBA_ResetStatistics(3C). hbaapi(3C)
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