topic iscsi boot and iBFT in Additional Virtualization Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Additional-Virtualization-Discussions/iscsi-boot-and-iBFT/m-p/41429#M1 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>im looking some detailed documentation about ibft and iscsi boot.</P><P>im trying to made xenserver6 (citrix) to boot from iscsi (netapp fas2050a) using ibft but i have some troubles.</P><P></P><P>i've been able to let him to boot thrught some e1000 nics (broadcom do not support ibft) - awfully there are not documented flasg to run the xen installer to made it to boot using ibft and to install on multipathed root device.</P><P>(you must go in debug mode: type shell at cdrom boot, then you must set the initiatorname (echo "InitiatorName=iqn.1998.05.com.whatever:server:hostname)" &gt; /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi), then run the installer manually with</P><P>these options: /opt/xensource/installer/init --use_ibft --device_mapper_multipath=yes and the options default of xen like console=blah blah)</P><P></P><P>the installation is successful, but i can't connect to other iscsi targets that is not netapp OR the netapp i booted from... my network admin say it could be a problem with ARP, setting the asp entry manually it works fine...</P><P></P><P>but when we did a test for the multipath (we disabled from the switch a network), the arp entries disappeared and it stopped to work...</P><P></P><P>any idea ?</P><P></P><P>best regards,</P><P>Luca</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:35:30 GMT ldomenella 2025-06-05T06:35:30Z iscsi boot and iBFT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Additional-Virtualization-Discussions/iscsi-boot-and-iBFT/m-p/41429#M1 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>im looking some detailed documentation about ibft and iscsi boot.</P><P>im trying to made xenserver6 (citrix) to boot from iscsi (netapp fas2050a) using ibft but i have some troubles.</P><P></P><P>i've been able to let him to boot thrught some e1000 nics (broadcom do not support ibft) - awfully there are not documented flasg to run the xen installer to made it to boot using ibft and to install on multipathed root device.</P><P>(you must go in debug mode: type shell at cdrom boot, then you must set the initiatorname (echo "InitiatorName=iqn.1998.05.com.whatever:server:hostname)" &gt; /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi), then run the installer manually with</P><P>these options: /opt/xensource/installer/init --use_ibft --device_mapper_multipath=yes and the options default of xen like console=blah blah)</P><P></P><P>the installation is successful, but i can't connect to other iscsi targets that is not netapp OR the netapp i booted from... my network admin say it could be a problem with ARP, setting the asp entry manually it works fine...</P><P></P><P>but when we did a test for the multipath (we disabled from the switch a network), the arp entries disappeared and it stopped to work...</P><P></P><P>any idea ?</P><P></P><P>best regards,</P><P>Luca</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:35:30 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Additional-Virtualization-Discussions/iscsi-boot-and-iBFT/m-p/41429#M1 ldomenella 2025-06-05T06:35:30Z Re: iscsi boot and iBFT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Additional-Virtualization-Discussions/iscsi-boot-and-iBFT/m-p/41433#M2 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Since you have not gotten an answer, you may want to ask this question in the <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support" target="_blank">NetApp Support Community.</A>&nbsp; The current customers, partners and internal Subject Matter Experts are addressing technical product questions there.</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:30:51 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Additional-Virtualization-Discussions/iscsi-boot-and-iBFT/m-p/41433#M2 crocker 2012-02-09T18:30:51Z