11–Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
FCoE Boot from SAN
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SLES 11 SP2 and Above
On SLES11 SP2, if the system boots through an initiator that has not been
configured as an FCoE interface during installation, the system will fail to boot. To
add new boot paths, the system must boot up through the configured FCoE
interface.
1.
Configure a new FCoE interface that will be added as a new path so it can
discover the boot LUN.
a.
Create a
/etc/fcoe/cfg-
<INTERFACE>
file for each new FCoE
initiator by duplicating the
/etc/fcoe/cfg-
<INTERFACE>
file that
was already configured during initial installation.
b.
Bring up the new interfaces:
# ifconfig
<INTERFACE>
up
c.
Restart FCoE service:
# rcfcoe restart
For SLES 12:
# systemctl restart fcoe
2.
Run
multipath -l
to make sure the system has a correct number of
multipaths to the boot LUN, including new paths.
3.
Create a
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-
<INTERFACE>
file for each
new interface by duplicating the
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-
<INTERFACE>
file that was already
configured during initial installation.
4.
Create a new ramdisk to update changes:
# mkinitrd
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