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Komonec2011-09-25 21:33:24
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Komonec, 2011-09-25 21:33:24

Windows diskless boot via iSCSI?

I already asked a similar question and omnimod suggested:

There are several options for Windows OS:
A simple option - if your computers have iSCSI or FC HBA - you can organize diskless booting without problems.

The option is more complicated - if the network adapters in the computer support iSCSI Boot using iBFT. There are even entry-level server motherboards in many modern server motherboards or server network adapters.

The most difficult option - for network adapters that do not support iSCSI Boot - pre-boot with gPXE, enable iBFT, boot via iSCSI.

A perverted option is to boot into Linux (for example, using the same PXE), and then run Windows as a guest VM hosted on NFS, iSCSI, etc. network storage.

An expensive option is to use commercial solutions, such as Citrix Provisioning Services, which allow you to boot over the network and access virtual disks via CIFS.

I set up iSCSI with FreeNAS in a virtual machine. Built-in network cards, machines that need to be loaded over the network, support booting over the network. And what to do next? Where to dig?
Thanks in advance.

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Perkov, 2011-09-26
@Perkov

The old fashioned way.
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navion, 2011-09-26
@navion

Do as described in the documentation:
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619733%28WS.10%29.aspx

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Olga Moskvitina, 2017-09-08
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https://habrahabr.ru/post/244661/

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