ISCSI Bootstrapping Draft

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ISCSI Bootstrapping Draft

• Prasenjit Sarkar
• IBM

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Requirements

• Provide guideline for iSCSI boot clients to
  contact iSCSI boot server
• iSCSI boot clients needs
• IP address
• iSCSI boot server Service Delivery Port Name,
  default LUN 0
• Overrides possible for port and LUN
• iSCSI initiator software
• On start, iSCSI boot client may have nothing
• No subset of iSCSI intiator software to be
  defined
• Unattended bootstrapping with overrides

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Steps

• Client Software Stage
• use PXE or related BOOTP/TFTP protocol to get
  iSCSI intiator software
• DHCP Stage
• Use DHCP to configure client IP address
• Use new DHCP option to configure iSCSI boot
  server Service Delivery Port Name
• Discovery Server Stage
• Use to-be-defined iSCSI discovery service to get
  iSCSI boot server
• bootable attribute on iSCSI targets desirable
• Boot stage

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Acknowledgments

• John Hufferd
• Duncan Missimer
• Costa Sapuntzakis
• David Robinson
• Julian Satran
• Doug Otis