Hi, From experience, DHCP could give out generic ip addresses for the PXE client, then if your zpool is setup and you have /usbkey/config your smartos host will use the information in there.
Seb, On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Mark Creamer via smartos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > Probably a simple question - I'd just like to understand the process > better before I try it. > > I have 3 SmartOS hosts running in one subnet. They currently boot from > individual USB sticks. I''m interested in moving them to PXE to make new > SmartOS releases simpler to implement. > > Currently there is no DHCP server in that network because none is needed. > There are only a few servers and each server has a static IP. > > Is the network that the PXE boot method uses to boot and load the OS into > memory typically the same network as will be used to manage the server? > > In other words, if my current servers are 192.168.1.100, 101 and 102, and > I want to keep those addresses, do I need to change each host to PXE boot > from DHCP and use reservations to make sure that each server still gets its > original IP address? Or is the PXE boot network independent of the > management network and the server just boots from NIC #1 on some other IP > but is managed on NIC #2 connected to the "management" network? > > Hopefully I'm explaining my question well enough. Thanks! > > -- > Mark > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26900931-98fbc364> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Sebastien Perrreault Partner Les Technologies Alesium Inc P: 514-298-7193 F: 514-221-3668 E: [email protected] "Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced--because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival." -- Roger Ebert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
