On 08/22/12 13:24, Seth Hurley wrote:
Hi Sanjay,
Thanks for the quick response. Customers boxes are SPARC for
now, but x86 Solaris is in the plans so they would like to plan
for both instances.
For SPARC systems, you can actually net boot without the assistance
of DHCP by setting the OBP network-boot-arguments variable.
x86 systems cannot net (PXE) boot without DHCP.
I was considering offering the boot media approach, but I was
under the assumption that after you provide the manifest DHCP is
still required to obtain an initial IP (which you can later
change).
Yes, this is the case. An AI client booted from media expects DHCP
to provide it network identity while in the install environment.
Customer doesn't want to use DHCP because they have 3 or 4
VLANs per network and want to avoid setting up an AI server in
each VLAN.
I'm assuming the issue here is because you're using AI server ==
DHCP server for each of those VLANs?
They use Wanboot to bypass Jumpstart multicast so they can
extend beyond a subnet.
The only way they'd used wanboot with jumpstart without DHCP is by
using the OBP network-boot-arguments variable. The usage is the
same with AI in S11 but we just failed to document it with the S11
docs, but it is usable. The docs will get updated in the next
release.
-ethan
Thanks,
Seth
On Aug 22, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Sanjay Nadkarni wrote:
Hi IPS Experts,
This is an AI question so if I have the wrong
address I apologize I have a quick question from a
customer who is in the process of moving his
environment to Solaris 11 (previously S10 w/ Jumpstart
+ WANboot). He doesn't use DHCP in his environment at
all and is trying to stay away from it. It looks like
Solaris 11 "requires" DHCP to identify new clients.
However the document below states the following:
"Although DHCP is used to identify the system
initially, it is also possible to use AI without
having a DHCP infrastructure in place."
I can't find documentation that walks through
setting up AI without DHCP. Are you aware of any
documentation or best practices for AI without DHCP?
Thanks,
Seth
Nope..AI assumes dhcp. Depending on what systems he has,
a alternative is to use the media (AI ISO) and provide an
AI manifest. It would be helpful for us to understand why
he does not want to use dhcp ? Since WANboot was referred,
I am assuming that the custy's boxes are SPARC. Are there
linux boxes in the mix ? Are they installed over the net
via kickstart ? If so how is that achieved ?
-Sanjay
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