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Surprised to see pxe. Didn’t realise that was in common use in racks
by Havoc 2y ago
Surprised to see pxe. Didn’t realise that was in common use in racks
- jpleger 2y agoAre there any alternatives these days? Or just that you weren't expecting to have systems boot off the network?
- Havoc 2y agoThe later. I was expecting local boot because pxe introduces a rather big dependency for potentially many machines. Issues with network or issues with pxe server and nothing boots
- louwrentius 2y agoBooting through the IPMI with virtual media isos over http is dog slow in my experience. Using PXE to bootstrap an installer kernel (only few MB) over TFTP that fetches the rest of the OS over HTTP is quick and you can pressed/kickstart a machine in minutes.