Comments on: Can I boot My Linux Server from iSCSI or SAN or NAS network attached storage?

By: Confluence: Siddharth Deshpande

Confluence: Siddharth Deshpande — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:45:28 +0000

PXE Boot From SAN…

W.I.P. Introduction to PXE Boot PXE Boot Process # PXE client boots up, starts up PXE boot ROM. # The PXE boot ROM sends a DHCP request. # The responding DHCP request (should) contain an additional DHCP option, the “filename” options…….

By: Brian Lavender

Brian Lavender — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:27:00 +0000

If you are running Xen, I would think that booting the VM is the right thing to do for the reason of live migration and decoupling the OS from the hardware.

By: Ntsakzin

Ntsakzin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:48:50 +0000

Hi GH, can you do it for a dual boot system (xp and suse). My email address is ntsakzinho@gmail.com. Thanks in advance.

By: GH

GH — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:48:22 +0000

Wow, this might have changed since this was written, but if you have the knowledge to set up and administer a SAN, setting up boot from SAN isn’t complicated at all. I can do it in about 15 minutes!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:27:30 +0000

This is helpful in presenting my case that it is not recommended to move our boot images to SAN or ISCI. However I will still have to go through the pain of trying it and showing why it is not a good idea.