Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Revision History
- Table of Contents
- Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- Functional Description
- Network Link and Activity Indication
- Features
- Software and Hardware Features
- Virtualization Features
- VXLAN
- NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- Stateless Offloads
- UDP Fragmentation Offload
- Stateless Transport Tunnel Offload
- Multiqueue Support for OS
- SR-IOV Configuration Support Matrix
- SR-IOV
- Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- Supported Combinations
- Installing the Hardware
- Software Packages and Installation
- Windows Driver Advanced Properties and Event Log Messages
- Teaming
- System-level Configuration
- ISCSI Boot
- VXLAN: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- SR-IOV: Configuration and Use Case Examples
- NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- DCBX – Data Center Bridging
ISCSI BootNetXtreme-E User’s Manual
September 4, 2019 • NetXtreme-E-UG103 Page 56
MBA Boot Protocol Configuration
To configure the boot protocol:
1. Restart the system.
2. From the PXE banner, select CTRL+S. The MBA Configuration Menu displays.
3. From the MBA Configuration Menu, use the UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW to move to the Boot Protocol
option. Use the LEFT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW to change the Boot Protocol option for iSCSI.
4.
Select iSCSI Boot Configuration from Main Menu.
iSCSI Boot Configuration
There are two ways to configure iSCSI boot:
• Static iSCSI Boot Configuration.
• Dynamic iSCSI Boot Configuration.
Static iSCSI Boot Configuration
In a static configuration, you must enter data for the system's IP address, the system's initiator IQN, and the
target parameters obtained in “Configuring the iSCSI Target” on page 54. For information on configuration
options, see Table 35 on page 55.
To configure the iSCSI boot parameters using static configuration:
1. From the General Parameters menu, set the following:
• TCP/IP parameters via DHCP – Disabled. (For IPv4.)
• IP Autoconfiguration – Disabled. (For IPv6, non-offload.)
• iSCSI parameters via DHCP – Disabled
• CHAP Authentication – Disabled
• DHCP Vendor ID – BRCM ISAN
• Link Up Delay Time – 0
• Use TCP Timestamp – Enabled (for some targets such as the Dell/EMC AX100i, it is necessary to
enable Use TCP Timestamp)
• Target as First HDD – Disabled
• LUN Busy Retry Count – 0
• IP Version – IPv6. (For IPv6, non-offload.)
2. Select ESC to return to the Main menu.
3. From the Main menu, select Initiator Parameters.
4. From the Initiator Parameters screen, enter values for the following:
• IP Address (unspecified IPv4 and IPv6 addresses should be "0.0.0.0" and "::", respectively)
• Subnet Mask Prefix
• Default Gateway
• Primary DNS