Booting from External Storage Device over iSCSI

After commissioning a SUSE LINUX operating system partition image on the internal storage of a partitionable enterprise partition platform (PEPP), you can configure the partition image to boot from an external storage device over iSCSI.

In general, the process is as follows:

  1. Prepare the external storage device as an iSCSI target.

  2. Prepare the partition on the PEPP as an iSCSI initiator.

  3. If desired, prepare a second partition as a backup partition.

    Unisys recommends using a partition on another platform.

  4. Verify that the Linux OS disk drive partition /root is on the iSCSI target.