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iSCSI boot for Solaris approved

Tuesday, August 26. 2008

The ARC has approved the PSARC/2008/427 iSCSI Boot case.

This project is to enable Solaris to boot off iSCSI luns via regular network adapters. Different approaches, iBFT/OBP, are adopted to implement this feature on x86/sparc platforms.

For the readers unaware of iBFT: This is a part of the ACPI 3.0 specification to enable a kernel to gather additional data needed to boot via iSCSI.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 08:44 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

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iSCSI boot integrated to Opensolaris
I´ve reported back in August that the case for iSCSI boot was approved by the ARC. The PSARC 2008/427 (iSCSI Boot) and PSARC 2008/640 (iSCSI With DHCP) cases had their flag day yesterday for the build 104 of Solaris.

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The Intel iSCSI Remote Boot Setup Utility is for Server NICs only, so this can not be used to replace a hard disk in a media center PC.

#1 Olli on 2008-08-27 13:03 (Reply)

I´m not really convinced about the usage of iSCSI for MediaPC, escpecially under the consideration that you would need a multiple-reader/multiple-writer filesystem to access it from the MediaPC and a Laptop or other media terminals in parallel . NFS and CIFS are much better choices for that task.

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-08-27 13:12 (Reply)

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