The Compellent Storage Center allows you to boot your servers directly from the SAN.

To Boot From SAN, you must first create and map boot volumes to your servers. You can either create a duplicate of an existing bootable volume, or create a new volume onto which you can install an operating system.

Select Create From Existing Volume to create a boot volume from an existing bootable volume. Creating a boot volume from an existing volume saves you both time and disk space, allowing you to install an operating system once and then use that operating system on multiple servers with ease.

Select Create New Volume to create a new volume onto which you intend to install the server's operating system.