Boot From SAN

Oracle supports booting the host using a LUN on an Oracle FS System as the system drive. Boot from SAN is supported using the Oracle Solaris I/O multipathing features.

The hardware dependencies and deployment scenarios involved in setting up a SAN with boot technology are not described in this document. For information on system requirements and configuration for an Oracle Solaris system to boot from a multipathed SAN-attached drive, refer to the Oracle Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide. Refer to the Oracle FS Path Manager Release Notes for updated document information.

Note: For more information on the Solaris I/O multipathing features, refer to the documentation that corresponds to your Oracle Solaris version. The documentation is listed in the following table.

Table 1 Oracle Solaris multipathing documentation
Oracle Solaris 10	Oracle Solaris 11
Oracle Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/820-1931/index.html) September 2010	Oracle Solaris Administration: SAN Configuration and Multipathing (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E23097/index.html) February 2012
Oracle Solaris SAN Configuration and Multipathing Guide (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/E35235/index.html) January 2013	Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: SAN Configuration and Multipathing (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29008/index.html) November 2012
	Managing SAN Devices and Multipathing in Oracle Solaris 11.2 (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36836/index.html) December 2014
	Managing SAN Devices and Multipathing in Oracle Solaris 11.3 (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54792/index.html) November 2016

Note: For Oracle FS System only, if you are going to use a LUN as a system drive, you must enable the Use as a boot LUN option. Navigate to SAN > LUNs > Actions > Create LUN and select or click Use as a boot LUN to enable the option.