Wednesday, June 22, 2011

What are the disadvantages to booting off the SAN?

      
           What are the disadvantages to booting off the SAN? We are looking at booting Unix (HP, Sun, IBM and Linux) and Intel servers off the SAN to help with disaster recovery solutions.
           While not considered to be disadvantages to booting off a SAN, there are certainly some things you need to take into consideration to have a functioning environment for disaster recovery. These would include having the appropriate host software (BIOS, drivers, operating system), along with adapters and firmware that support booting off of the SAN. It's also important that your storage subsystem support and be configured to handle SAN booting. Some servers expect a boot device

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