User Manual

Rev 4.70

Mellanox Technologies

9 Booting Windows from an iSCSI Target

9.1 Configuring the WDS, DHCP and iSCSI Servers

9.1.1 Configuring the WDS Server

 To configure the WDS server:

1. Install the WDS server.

2. Extract the Mellanox drivers to a local directory using the '-a' parameter.

For boot over Ethernet, when using adapter cards with older firmware version than 2.30.8000, you

need to extract the PXE package, otherwise use Mellanox

WinOF VPI package.

Example:

3. Add the Mellanox driver to boot.wim

dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:boot.wim /index:2 /MountDir:mnt

dism /Image:mnt /Add-Driver /Driver:drivers /recurse

dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:mnt /commit

4. Add the Mellanox driver to install.wim

dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:install.wim /index:4 /MountDir:mnt

dism /Image:mnt /Add-Driver /Driver:drivers /recurse

dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:mnt /commit

5. Add the new boot and install images to WDS.

For additional details on WDS, please refer to:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj648426.aspx

9.1.2 Configuring iSCSI Target

 To configure iSCSI Target:

1. Install iSCSI Target (e.g StartWind).

2. Add to the iSCSI target initiators the IP addresses of the iSCSI clients.

9.1.3 Configuring the DHCP Server

 To configure the DHCP server:

1. Install a DHCP server.

2. Add to IPv4 a new scope.

3. Add iSCSI boot client identifier (MAC/GUID) to the DHCP reservation.

Mellanox.msi.exe -a

1. Use ‘index:2’ for Windows setup and ‘index:1’for WinPE.

2. When adding the Mellanox driver to install.wim, verify you are using the appropriate index for your OS flavor. To check the OS run

‘imagex /info install.win’.