PXE boot Windows on iSCSI

[beers]

I finally got around to playing with iSCSI, pretty easy to set up and use.

I was hoping to take it to the next level with a diskless client using a lun as a boot disk.

Is anyone familiar with deploying a setup like this? PXE always looks like a pain in the rear to me..

Thanks

 

[voyagerfan99]

The only PXE booting I've ever done is to boot to WDS, haha

 

[Cromewell]

I've not actually done this, but this script looks like it should work. I've PXEd to local disk though. You need windows 2003 or newer for iscsi targets.

#!ipxe

echo iscsi.ipxe script running...
ifopen net0
dhcp
set net0/gateway 0.0.0.0
echo IP: ${net0/ip}, Gateway: ${net0/gateway}
set net0/keep-san 1
echo keep-san: ${net0/keep-san}
sanboot iscsi:<server IP>::::iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:<server name>-win10-client1-target ||
sanboot iscsi:<server IP>::::iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:<server name>-win10-install-target