Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual page 73

iSCSI Protocol: Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide
Bindview.exe (see KB976042)
Procedure:
1. Remove any local hard drives on the SUT.
2. Load the latest Broadcom MBA and iSCSI boot images onto NVRAM of the AUT.
3. Configure SUT's BIOS to have the Broadcom MBA as the first bootable device, and the CDROM as the second device.
4. Configure the iSCSI Target, with sufficient disk space to hold new O/S installation, to allow connection from the SUT.
5. Boot up system. At PXE banner, press Ctrl+S to enter PXE menu.
6. At PXE menu, set Boot Protocol to iSCSI.
7. Enter iSCSI target parameters.
8. Set HBA Boot Mode to Enabled or Disabled.
9. In General Parameters, set Boot to Target parameter to One-Time Disabled.
10. Save settings, and reboot system.
11. SUT should connect to target, and then boot to DVDROM device.
12. Boot to DVD and begin installation.
13. Answer all the installation questions with appropriate answers. (such as Operating System you want to install, accept
the license terms, etc.).
14. When the Where you want to install Windows? dialog window appears, select Load Drivers. Plug in USB device,
which contains drivers, into SUT.
a. If HBA Boot Mode is Enabled: load evbd/vbd and ois drivers.
b. IF HBA Boot Mode is Disabled: load evbd/vbd and ndis drivers.
15. Target Drive should be seen. This is a drive connected via the iSCSI boot protocol, located in the remote iSCSI target)
Select Next to proceed W2K8R2 installation.
16. A few minutes after the W2K8R2 DVD installation process starts, there will be a system restart follows.
17. After a reboot, W2K8R2 installation routine should start and continue on. (Completing installation).
18. Then there will be another system restart follows, check and verify the SUT is able to boot to the desktop.
19. After W2K8R2 is booted up, load all drivers and run Bindview.exe.
a. Select: All Services.
b. Under WFP Lightweight Filter you should see Binding paths for the AUT. Right click and disable them. When
done close out.
20. Verify the OS and system is functional, and able to pass traffic by pinging a remote system's IP, etc.
21. Test and verify iSCSI boot remains functional over both NDIS and OIS path in both IPv4 and all IPv6 protocols.
Linux iSCSI Boot Setup
Linux iSCSI boot is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and later and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 PS1 and later in
both the offload and non-offload paths. SLES 10.x and SLES 11 support only the non-offload path.
There are two methods to set up Linux iSCSI boot:
Local hard drive installation
Remote DVD installation
Local hard drive installation
1. Install Linux OS on your local hard drive and make sure open-iscsi initiator is up to date.
2. Make sure all Runlevels of network service are on.
3. Make sure 2, 3, and 5 Runlevels of iscsi service are on.
4. Update uIP. You can get uIP package from Broadcom CD. This step is not needed for SuSE 10.
5. Install linux-nx2 package on you linux system. You can get this package from Broadcom CD.
6. Install bibt package on you Linux system. You can get this package from Broadcom CD.
7. Delete all ifcfg-eth* files.
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