Windows 2003 and booting from SAN

[AAntonucci]

IHAC with: SF 5.1

O.S.:
- Windows 2003

Storage:
- EMC Clariion CX-700
- IBM DS8100 InBand with IBM SVC version 4.x

They would understand if we do support booting from SAN with the above storages.

Any info is appreciated

Regards

[rhanley]

Hello,
    There should be no issues with booting from SAN using SFW 5.1, and as long as the hardware is supported by Microsoft, it is supported by SFW.

Note: If multipathing is being used, then you will need to check the HCL to verify the hardware is supported. This is not related to booting from SAN, but thought I would mention it just in case the customer was using or planning to use multipathing.

exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/Storage_Foundation_for_Windows/302144.pdf

or just in case the link doesn't work: ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/Storage_Foundation_for_Windows/302144.pdf

I hope this helps.

- Robert