This appendix describes how to set up and boot
from a Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network (SAN) storage device. You
may prefer booting from an FC storage device because of its speed
and because it can serve as a common cluster system disk in a SAN.
FC storage is supported on all storage arrays that are supported
on OpenVMS systems. For a list of supported devices, see the HP OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3 and HP OpenVMS I64 Version 8.3-1H1 Servers
Software Product Description (SPD 82.35.xx).
The HBA requires the latest RISC firmware and
EFI firmware and driver.
Fibre Channel device booting supports point-to-point
topology. There is no plan to support FC arbitrated loop topology.
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