We are SAN Booting (iSCSI) a Windows 2008 Server and replicating the Boot Lun to our DR site. Should we installed the Unisphere Host agent after the Windows OS has been installed or just register the iSCSI HBA initiators manually?
I have never done boot from SAN using iscsi. I believe you are using iscsi HBA's for SAN Booting. So manually register one of the HBA to unisphere, go to HBA Bios, scan the disk, save the path to boot from, install OS, create agentID.txt file and input same hostname you used for manual registration, install Unisphere Host agent which will register other remaining paths, go to SG properties, verify/add the additional paths (use engineering mode if needed), install multipathing software. thats it.
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I have never done boot from SAN using iscsi. I believe you are using iscsi HBA's for SAN Booting. So manually register one of the HBA to unisphere, go to HBA Bios, scan the disk, save the path to boot from, install OS, create agentID.txt file and input same hostname you used for manual registration, install Unisphere Host agent which will register other remaining paths, go to SG properties, verify/add the additional paths (use engineering mode if needed), install multipathing software. thats it.