This section provides installation mechanisms and configuration
methods for boot installation from fibre-channel SAN DASD on IBM® pSeries™ hosts.
You can use the following mechanisms to direct a
PSSP boot installation on an IBM RS/6000® SP™ node:
- SAN_DISKID, which is derived from the worldwide port name and LUN ID
Note: This
is the preferred mechanism.
- PVID
- HDISK
You can use the following methods to configure a disk for the IBM RS/6000 for
a boot install from fibre-channel SAN DASD:
- Mirrored volume
- Alternate volume
- Individual volume