ISCSI Boot
NetXtreme-E User’s Manual
February 26, 2018 • NetXtreme-E-UG100
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5.
Select
ESC
to return to the
Main
menu.
6.
From the
Main
menu, select
1st Target Parameters
.
7.
From the
1st Target Parameters
screen, enable
Connect
to connect to the iSCSI target. Type values for
the following using the values used when configuring the iSCSI target:
•
IP Address
•
TCP Port
•
Boot LUN
•
iSCSI Name
8.
Select
ESC
to return to the
Main
menu.
9.
Select
ESC
and select
Exit
and
Save Configuration
.
10.
Select
F4
to save the MBA configuration.
Dynamic iSCSI Boot Configuration
In a dynamic configuration, specify that the system's IP address and target/initiator information are provided by
a DHCP server (see IPv4 and IPv6 configurations in
“Configuring the DHCP Server to Support iSCSI Boot” on
. For IPv4, with the exception of the initiator iSCSI name, any settings on the Initiator Parameters, 1st
Target Parameters, or 2nd Target Parameters screens are ignored and do not need to be cleared. For IPv6, with
the exception of the CHAP ID and Secret, any settings on the Initiator Parameters, 1st Target Parameters, or
2nd Target Parameters screens are ignored and do not need to be cleared. For information on configuration
options, see
•
If DHCP Option 17 is used, the target information is provided by the DHCP server, and the initiator iSCSI
name is retrieved from the value programmed from the Initiator Parameters screen. If no value was
selected, then the controller defaults to the name:
iqn.1995-05.com.broadcom.<11.22.33.44.55.66>.iscsiboot
where the string
11.22.33.44.55.66
corresponds to the controller's MAC address.
•
If DHCP option 43 (IPv4 only) is used, then any settings on the Initiator Parameters, 1st Target Parameters,
or 2nd Target Parameters screens are ignored and do not need to be cleared.
Note:
For the initial setup, configuring a second target is not supported.
Note:
When using a DHCP server, the DNS server entries are overwritten by the values provided by
the DHCP server. This occurs even if the locally provided values are valid and the DHCP server
provides no DNS server information. When the DHCP server provides no DNS server information,
both the primary and secondary DNS server values are set to 0.0.0.0. When the Windows OS takes
over, the Microsoft iSCSI initiator retrieves the iSCSI Initiator parameters and configures the
appropriate registries statically. It will overwrite whatever is configured. Since the DHCP daemon runs
in the Windows environment as a user process, all TCP/IP parameters have to be statically configured
before the stack comes up in the iSCSI Boot environment.
