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For Emulex Fibre Channel (FC) cards, the Enable/Disable Boot From SAN attribute in the Option ROM is disabled by default.Enable the attribute in the Option ROM and apply the boot identify profile to the server for booting from SAN.To save a profile, perform the following tasks:1. Go to the Server Profiles page. In the Boot Identity Profiles section, select the server that has the required settings withwhich you want to generate the profile and select FQDD from the FQDD drop-down menu.2. Click Save Identity. The Save Identity section is displayed.NOTE: Boot identity is saved only if the Network Share option is enabled and accessible, the details are displayed inthe Stored Profiles section. If the Network Share is not connected, configure the network share for the chassis. Toconfigure the network share, click Edit in the Stored Profiles section. For more information, seeConfiguringNetwork Share Using CMC Web Interface.3. In the Base Profile Name and Number of Profiles fields, enter the profile name and the number of profiles that you want tosave.NOTE: While saving a boot identity profile, the standard ASCII extended character set is supported. However, thefollowing special characters are not supported:), “, ., *, >, <, \, /, :, |, #, ?, and ,4. Select a MAC address for the base profile from the Virtual MAC Address drop-down and click Save Profile.The number of templates created are based on the number of profiles you specify. CMC communicates with the LifecycleController to get the available server profile settings and store them as a named profile. The format for the name file is — profile name>_ number>_. For example: FC630_01_0E0000000000.A progress indicator indicates that the save operation is in progress. After the action is complete, Operation Successfulmessage is displayed.NOTE: The process to gather the settings occurs in the background. Hence, it may take some time before the newprofile is displayed. If the new profile is not displayed, check the profile log for errors.Applying Boot Identity ProfilesYou can apply boot identity profile settings if the boot identity profiles are available as stored profiles on the network share. To initiatea boot identity configuration operation, you can apply a stored profile to a single server.NOTE: If a server does not support Lifecycle Controller or the chassis is powered off, you cannot apply a profile to theserver.To apply a profile to a server, perform the following tasks:1. Go to the Server Profiles page. In the Boot Identity profiles section, select the server on which you want to apply the selectedprofile.The Select Profile drop-down menu gets enabled.NOTE: The Select Profile drop-down menu displays all available profiles that are sorted by type from the networkshare.2. From the Select Profile drop-down menu, select the profile that you want to apply.The Apply Identity option is enabled.3. Click Apply Identity.A warning message is displayed that applying a new identity overwrites the current settings and also reboots the selectedserver. You are prompted to confirm if you want to continue the operation.NOTE: To perform server configuration replication operations on the server, the CSIOR option must be enabled forthe servers. If CSIOR option is disabled, a warning message is displayed that CSIOR is not enabled for the server. Tocomplete the server configuration replication operation, enable the CSIOR option on the server.4. Click OK to apply the boot identity profile to the selected server.The selected profile is applied to the server and the server is rebooted immediately. For more information, see the CMC OnlineHelp.103
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