Booting from remote storage
Booting from remote storage
Posted Apr 7, 2017 17:54 UTC (Fri) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733)In reply to: Booting from remote storage by lmb
Parent article: Booting from remote storage
I have never used FCoE or iSCSI in production for a boot volume. I have a little experience with regular FC and found it be a hassle as every once in awhile something would go wrong with no way to diagnose it. Which has pretty much been my experience with FC in general. Frankly, I don't know why anyone would use FCoE unless they are trying to bridge to a legacy SAN. PFC/ETS can be used with vanilla iSCSI without needing NIC support.
As noted in the article, PXE booting "just works" and configuration is typically pretty trivial to enable remotely via the BMC.