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Enabling MPIO on Windows
If you change the networking hardware, Windows may fail to boot from an iSCSI drive. For more
information, see Microsoft support Article ID: 976042.
Note
Before You Begin
The server on which you enable MPIO must have a Cisco VIC driver.
Procedure
Step 1
In the service profile associated with the server, configure the primary and secondary iSCSI vNICs.
For more information, see Creating an iSCSI vNIC for a Service Profile, on page 452.
Step 2
Using the primary iSCSI vNIC, install the Windows operating system on the iSCSI target LUN.
Step 3
After Windows installation is completed, use the Microsoft software iSCSI initiator to connect to the secondary
iSCSI vNIC.
Step 4
Enable MPIO on the host
Step 5
In the service profile associated with the server, add the secondary iSCSI vNIC to the boot policy.
For more information, see Creating an iSCSI Boot Policy, on page 451.
Configuring iSCSI Boot
When you configure an adapter or blade in Cisco UCS to iSCSI boot from a LUN target, you need to complete
all of the following steps.
Procedure
PurposeCommand or Action
(Optional)
For more information, see Creating an iSCSI
Adapter Policy, on page 447
Configure the iSCSI boot adapter policy.
Step 1
(Optional)
For more information, see Creating an
Authentication Profile, on page 449
Configure the authentication profiles to be
used by the initiator and target.
Step 2
(Optional)
For more information, see Creating an iSCSI
Initiator IP Pool, on page 450
If you plan to configure the iSCSI initiator to
use an IP address from a pool of IP addresses,
add a block of IP addresses to the iSCSI
initiator pool.
Step 3
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