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It is possible to PXE boot a full blown OS, not just OS installer, Live CD or CoreOS. The product usually used to do this is: http://support.citrix.com/proddoc
by ewams 13y ago
It is possible to PXE boot a full blown OS, not just OS installer, Live CD or CoreOS.
The product usually used to do this is:
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/technologies/pvs-provisioning.html http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/technologies/pvs-pr...
It is just a nice GUI that ties into PXE and TFTP and just streams an image from a disk file.
On a 1Gb network I have booted over 300 physical machines in under 2 minutes simultaneously.
For those curious, unfortunately PVS is packaged with XenDesktop so you have to buy XenDesktop to get PVS. Citrix does not seem willing to separate the two as different products even though I have deployed PVS for several customers without even download the XenDestkop bits.
- devicenull 13y agoDRBL can do this for Linux (if you require some software to set it up for you). You can actually accomplish this with nothing more then the linux kernel if you're clever: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs...
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- ewams 13y agoThanks I have not heard of DRBL. After reading it sounds pretty much like PVS, though PVS does have some additional features I don't see on it. Will have to try it out! DRBL is a free software though.
- justincormack 13y agoThe product usually used to do this is Linux...
- ewams 13y agoYea I meant "I usually" :-p
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