HP StoreFabric Converged Network Adapters - Manual (Page 14)

Troubleshooting 14
Boot from SAN is not supported on ESXi 5.0.x for VMware
Boot from SAN is not supported on ESXi 5.0.x for VMware.
Multipath configuration for VMware
To set up multipath on an ESXi 5.x host, add a default FCoE transport SATP rule. For instructions, search for
the article 2045934 on the VMware Knowledge Base website ( http://kb.vmware.com ).