Re:So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
by Havoc on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:58PM
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Surprised to see pxe. Didn’t realise that was in common use in racks
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Re:So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
by jpleger on Friday January 17, 2025 @09:08PM
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Are there any alternatives these days? Or just that you weren't expecting to have systems boot off the network?
Re:So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
by Havoc on Saturday January 18, 2025 @05:17AM
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The 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
Re:So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
by louwrentius on Saturday January 18, 2025 @12:53PM
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Booting 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.