Oracle® Virtual Networking for Windows Hosts Installation and Boot Guide

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Updated: July 2016
 
 

SAN Boot Considerations

Consider the following when you configure SAN Boot with a shadow copy for Windows:

  • The server will no longer be able to boot to either safe mode or the recovery console.

  • The SAN LUN must use either master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table (GPT) partitioning. Dynamic disks are not supported with Oracle Virtual Networking host drivers.

  • If you are SAN booting multiple servers, you perform this procedure once for each of the servers. Also, each server must have its own SAN LUN and its own bootable VHBA connected to it. You cannot connect the server to the same SAN LUN and have all servers boot from a common boot image on a central SAN LUN.