Dell Mellanox Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 70)

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Step 19. Click Next. Allow the installation to reach completion.
5.1.1.3 SAN-Booting the Diskless Client with FlexBoot
When the installation process is completed, the client will ask to reboot. At that point, the DHCP
server configuration for that client needs to be changed so that when it PXE boots again, it will
get the root-path IQN and LUN information from the DHCP server.
For further information, please refer to section DHCP Configuration for iSCSI Boot with Flex-
Boot (PXE SAN Boot).
• Reboot the system
The expected result is that for the diskless PXE client to boot the newly installed RHEL6.4/
RHEL6.5 from the iSCSI storage, and become an operational environment, accessible from any
remote PC via ssh over 10GbE IP network
5.1.2 Booting Windows from an iSCSI Target
5.1.2.1 Configuring the WDS, DHCP and iSCSI Servers
Configuring the WDS Server
 To configure the WDS server:
1. Install the WDS server.
2. Extract the Mellanox drivers to a local directory using the '-a' parameter.
For boot over Ethernet, when using adapter cards with older firmware version than 2.30.8000, onewill
need to extract the PXE package, otherwise use Mellanox WinOF VPI package.
Example:
3. Add the Mellanox driver to boot.wim
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Restart your DHCP service after changing the dhcp configuration file.
Mellanox.msi.exe -a
dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:boot.wim /index:2 /MountDir:mnt
dism /Image:mnt /Add-Driver /Driver:drivers /recurse
dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:mnt /commit