UPDATE #2: This article has been updated here.
UPDATE: This article has been updated here.
I have been asked this question a number of times by customers here in the Triangle area. The new family of HP Blades, the c-Class Blades, do not iSCSI boot at this time. The IBM Blades will boot with the Q-Logic iSCSI expansion card but there is not an equivalent HP Product at this time. This fact can be a key differentiator in some accounts and is a good bit of knowledge to keep in your back pocket when positioning IBM vs. HP Blades.
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That is very interesting as we are talking with HP and a partner and we were led to believe that the blades could boot from iSCSI. I will have to check into this more.
On another note we are just making the jump into blades. We have toured HP’s EBC to look them over and talk to the engineers as well we went to Dell last week to look over the new blade line.
Thanks for the blog!
Thanks for coming by! I would love to hear what you guys say about it. We were in very close contact with HP on this one because we had a customer buying a very large number of blades and they had to be able to iSCSI boot multiple OS’s for a test lab. HP was only able to “iBoot” on their blades.
I look forward to hearing more!