We are looking at doing iSCSI boot of Windows for a different purpose - higher availability, maybe in place of clustering which is alot more expensive and complex.
We have a production SQLServer which management does not feel is necessary to go through the complexity and cost to do a cluster. However, they are intersted in <30 min SLA. We currently have a spare server sitting around just in case. If we setup iSCSI boot of Windows then we can swap the spare server in place of the production server if the production server ever has hardware problem, right?
Has anyone done this with one of the iSCSI accelerators? I've only setup for iSCSI with MS SW initiator. But I would imagine the iSCSI id would be fully contained on the iSCSI accelerator and if I remove it from one server and place into another server with the same configuration then the new server will just boot up as the original server?
Derek