Configure the boot device on a Fibre Channel HBA

This section describes how to use hardware Build Plans for Fibre Channel HBA configuration.

HP provides two Fibre Channel HBA Build Plans.

The ProLiant HW – Fibre Channel HBA Display Configuration Build Plan displays the configuration of the Emulex CNA and QLogic or Emulex HBAs found on the system.

The ProLiant HW – Fibre Channel HBA Configure Boot Device Build Plan configures the boot device on the Emulex CNA and QLogic or Emulex HBA. The configuration settings are specified via the HBA_Config custom attribute, which must be created for each server on which the Build Plan is run. The value of the HBA_Config custom attribute contains multiple lines where each tag/value pair must be on its own line. The following is a sample configuration.

#First HBA
BootWWPN-HBA0=50:01:43:80:11:36:E6:6A
BootLUN-HBA0=1
WWPN-HBA0=50:01:43:80:12:0B:FE:98
SelectBootEnable-HBA0=1
HostAdapterBiosEnable-HBA0=1

# Second HBA
BootWWPN-HBA1=50:01:43:80:11:36:E6:6C
BootLUN-HBA1=1
WWPN-HBA1=50:01:43:80:12:0B:FE:9A
SelectBootEnable-HBA1=1
HostAdapterBiosEnable-HBA1=1


	NOTE: You must specify the configuration for `HBA0`; additional HBAs are optional. You may configure up to four HBAs. The tags for each HBA should end with `HBA0`, `HBA1`, `HBA2`, or `HBA3`.

HBA Custom Attribute Tags

Tag Name Description

BootWWPN-HBA0 The controller’s Word Wide Port Name (WWPN).

BootLUN-HBA0 The LUN to boot from.

WWPN-HBA0

The HBA’s World Wide Port Name (WWPN).

NOTE: If this tag is specified, the configuration will be applied to the HBA with the matching WWPN regardless of the order it was discovered.

If this tag is not specified, the configuration will be applied to the HBA number that appears at the end of the BootWWPN-HBA tag. For example, BootWWPN-HBA0 will be applied to first HBA, BootWWPN-HBA1 will be applied to second HBA, and so on.

SelectBootEnable-HBA0

Set to one of the following values:

1 –	BIOS configures the `BootWWPN-HBA0` and `BootLUN-HBA0` you specified as the boot device.
2 –	BIOS configures the first disk drive it finds as the boot device.


	NOTE: If this tag is not specified, the default value is `1`.

HostAdapterBiosEnable-HBA0

Set to one of the following values:

1 –	Enables the ROM BIOS on the adapter. If you are booting from an FC disk drive attached to the adapter, you must enable this setting.
2 –	Disables the ROM BIOS on the adapter, which frees space in upper memory.


	NOTE: If this tag is not specified, the default value is `1`.

Below is sample job output for a server with a QLogic HBA.

QLogic HBAs:
                                  Link         Enable  Selectable Primary Boot
HBA# Port HBA WWPN                Status       BIOS    Boot       Port Name               LUN
---- ---- ----------------------- ------------ ------- ---------- ----------------------- ---
   0    1 50:01:43:80:12:0B:FE:98 Online             1          0 50:01:43:80:11:36:E6:6A   1
   1    2 50:01:43:80:12:0B:FE:9A Online             0          0 50:01:43:80:11:36:E6:6C   1

QLogic HBAs After Applying Configuration:
                                  Link         Enable  Selectable Primary Boot
HBA# Port HBA WWPN                Status       BIOS    Boot       Port Name               LUN
---- ---- ----------------------- ------------ ------- ---------- ----------------------- ---
   0    1 50:01:43:80:12:0B:FE:98 Online             1          1 50:01:43:80:11:36:E6:6A   1
   1    2 50:01:43:80:12:0B:FE:9A Online             1          1 50:01:43:80:11:36:E6:6C   1

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