
August, 2004 Storage for Server Blades 15
Providing storage to servers
• Today: boot locally
− Configure storage
− Manually present LUN to blade
server
− Write any images needed by the
server to its LUNs
− Start the application
• Boot from SAN
− Configure storage
− Present LUN to blade server
− Boot blade to PXE server
− Enable BIOS on server’s network
interface to see array
− Write any OS, images needed by
the server to its LUNs
− Add drivers to OS to see the storage
network
SAN
PXE Server
Blade Servers
Boot Services
Requires manual interaction with
three management interfaces
Server
Storage
Network
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