Is it possible boot from SAn storage

[Dave Peters]

All,

The Blade server is connected to SAN Storage. Is it possible have linux OS image on SAN storage and boot from it? Just have a thought and have never done this before.

Thanks.

-Dave







     
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[Dan Ritter-2]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 07:03:42AM -0700, Dave Peters wrote:
> All,
>
> The Blade server is connected to SAN Storage. Is it possible have linux OS image on SAN storage and boot from it? Just have a thought and have never done this before.
>

Yes. Linux can boot from AoE or iSCSI volumes after PXE is used
to get the kernel up.

-dsr-


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