Patent ID: 7624262
Filing Date: 2009-11-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer usable program code programmed for booting a Logical Partition using an external storage device, the operations of the computer program product comprising: creating a virtual Small Computer System Interface (“SCSI”) device assigned to a first logical partition (“LPAR”) of a first computer using a virtual input/output (“I/O”) server by mapping a logical unit number (“LUN”) of a storage volume to a SCSI ID uniquely associated with the virtual SCSI device, receiving a boot request to boot the first LPAR, the boot request identifying the storage volume as a boot device using the SCSI ID of the virtual SCSI device; retrieving boot data from the storage volume using a SCSI driver of the first LPAR; and booting the first LPAR using the boot data.