Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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10 PXE Boot
To serve PXE requests from PXE clients, a PXE must be configured. The PXE server can be configured to run regular PXE
or iPXE. Regular PXE is a network boot program that downloads config files over TFTP from the PXE server. iPXE is an
enhanced implementation of the PXE client firmware and a network boot program which uses iPXE scripts rather than config
files and can download scripts and images with HTTP.
NOTE: UEFI mode PXE boot is supported on physical functions as well as NIC partitions, whereas legacy mode PXE boot
is supported only on physical functions.
The procedure for configuring PXE server for both PXE and iPXE is covered in PXE Server Configuration.
10.1 UEFI Mode
Enable PXE for the Broadcom adapter interface in Network Configuration under System Setup. Refer to the
documentation from the server manufacturer on how to enable PXE on the particular server model.
10.1.1 iPXE
Download the ipxe.efi boot loader file using TFTP from the PXE server.