HP-UX San Boot Ontap 9

[JoeStorage]

Looking for documentation to configure boot from SAN from a HP-UX Itanium HP rx2800 i4 Itanium Servers.   2port 8GB AH401A Qlogic HBA  HPUX 11i V3.  NetApp A300 

[AlexDawson]

Hi Joe,

Per our Interop Matrix (IMT) at this link, the following configuration is supported:

Name: 20170227-055045868

Solution: FAS SAN Host

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Status: Supported

Last Modified Date: 9 Nov 2017

ComponentsHistory

ProtocolFC	Host UtilitiesHP-UX Host Utilities 6.0	Host OS (OS)HP HP-UX 11i v3 B.11.31 Sep 2016
Host PlatformItanium	Host HBA HP HBA AH401A	Host FeatureSAN Boot Yes
ONTAP OS (NETAPP OS)ONTAP 9.1	Software InitiatorNot Applicable	Host Volume ManagerHP-UX LVMOracle ASM
Host MultipathHP Native MPIO	Host File SystemHFSJFSOracle ASMVeritas VxFS

Hope this helps!

[JoeStorage]

Thanks for the help.  looking for details on how to create the boot lun.

[AlexDawson]

You'd be after "lun create", with a type of "hpux", and generally you would create a single initiator igroup which maps the LUN to the host as ID "0", and then use bcfg 

http://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.dot-cm-cmpr-910/TOC__lun.html 

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2346410/html/GUID-184068F4-D2DD-44C9-A5C2-18E23B8277E1.html

Hope this helps!