On Dec 15, 2016 08:09, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 07:31:29AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> This is interesting. Does IPMI also allow you boot from a
"remote
> USB device"?
Not any of the servers I've worked with. Only remote DVD boot. I've
never heard of anyone being able to do remote USB or disk device, as I
think the ability to write over the network is considered not
desirable...
IBM Bladecenters can mount USB images remotely — although that's just a
disk image file, same as you can do with an .ISO. No physical media
involved in either case.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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All the DRAC/iLO/BMC systems I play with these days mount a remote ISO and
present it as optical media. The feature is basically only used for
emergencies where regular networking won't do, like when I want the normal
network environment for the process and don't want to bother the network
folks to change routing and vlans in realtime.
Definitely an edge case, but I'm fairly sure that an image that won't boot
from physical optical media also will not boot this way. It would be more
important for RHEL users than Fedora users, I assume.
--Pete