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8. In the Addresses table, type the static IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and then click Add.

9. Click Apply to set the static IP address of the appliance.

10. For Hyper-V only, reboot ASM virtual appliance.

Configuring ASM Virtual Appliance as PXE Boot

Responder

Active System Manager (ASM) requires both PXE and DHCP network services to function. The ASM virtual

appliance contains a PXE service that is used to register resources with ASM so that workloads can be

deployed. The ASM virtual appliance must be deployed directly on the network configured for the PXE

service.

The PXE service requires a DHCP server configured to provide boot server (TFTP PXE server) information

and specific start-up file information. The ASM PXE implementation uses the iPXE specification so that the

configuration details include instructions to allow legacy PXE servers and resources to boot properly to

this iPXE implementation.

This section provides information about configuring DHCP on the following servers. The information

includes only the basic configuration options and declarations required for an iPXE environment. These

details should be used as a cumulative addition to the settings currently used in your DHCP

implementation (if you already have a DHCP environment).

• Microsoft Windows 2012 Server. See Configure DHCP on Windows 2012 DHCP Server

• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2. See Configure DHCP on Windows 2008 DHCP Server

• Linux DHCPd (ISC DHCP). See Configuring DHCP for Linux

Configure DHCP on Windows 2012 DHCP Server

To configure the DHCP on Windows 2012 DHCP Server, perform the following tasks:

1. Create DHCP User Class

2. Create DHCP Policy

3. Create Boot File scope option

For additional information, see http://ipxe.org/howto/msdhcp

Create the DHCP User Class

You must create the user class for the DHCP server before creating the DHCP Policy.

1. Open the Windows 2012 DHCP Server DHCP Manager.

2. In the console tree, navigate to IPv4. Right click IPv4, and then click Define User Classes from the

drop-down menu.

3. In the DHCP User Classes dialog box, click Add.

4. In the New Class dialog box, enter the following information and click OK to create a user class.

a. In the Display Name box, enter iPXE

b. In the Description box, enter iPXE Clients

c. In the data pane, under ASCII, enter iPXE