Need to prepare ESX-Server 3.5 offsite without ISCSI-Storage available. Boot from internal disk. I followed KB1004051 and made shure bootmode DHCP is disabled in iSCSI BIOS.
Anyhow I was not able even to install ESX3.5 from CD because QLA4022 driver wants to initiate. I went again into ISCSI BIOS and set IPV4 to NO. This helped me to install ESX3.5 succesfully.
But I made a test and switched ISCSI BIOS IPV4 back to YES and now a boot takes about 15 min to come up with message: Initialization for qla4022 failed with -19 meaning qla4022 driver is not loaded. Must I connect the iSCSI HBAs to the iSCSI Storage-Ports to get out of this behaviour ? Will it be sufficient if qla4022-driver will find the initiator's IP without LUNs mapped ? I do not know this behaviour when connection FC-HBAs.
Regards Harry