[ipxe-devel] esxi5 use ftp to install is very slow

[Jarrod Johnson]

That's weasel complaining.  Did you mayhaps see an error about BOOTIF or
something during boot?

You might consider trying the substitute esxboot efi executable:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/yum/xcat-dep/esxboot-xcat-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm/download


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan178 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello all,
> when i used https to load esxi 5.1 installer with ipxe, kernel(tboot.b00)
> and other files can be downloaded by ipxe through https.
> 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /maint/b.b00 HTTP/1.1"
> 200 55284 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+"
> 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:01 +0800] "GET /maint/useropts.gz
> HTTP/1.1" 200 20 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+"
> 9.119.47.207 - - [16/Jul/2013:12:31:02 +0800] "GET /maint/k.b00 HTTP/1.1" 200
> 2648864 "-" "iPXE/1.0.0+"
>
> But when read installation script, it will fail. error message windows
> shows:
> error (see log for more info):
> Error copying / downloading file
> Error (see log for more info):
> Error connecting to the network
> Did not get an IP address from DHCP server.
>
> I used 'esxboot-x64.efi -c /maint/boot.cfg.install ks=
> http://xx.xx.xx.xx/maint/ULDR/esxi5host' to load ks.cfg in ipxe shell.
>
> Any workaround to load correct ks.cfg for esxi installer, in static ip
> environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Eugene
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan178 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Jarrod,
>> I have tested http, result seems okay for me. one more update, i install
>> esxi5.1 build 1065491.
>> I am testing https as well.
>> So ftp issue seems present for me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> yixuan
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Jarrod Johnson <
>> jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In my experience in chainbooting ipxe, I've found the underlying nic to
>>> influence things significantly.
>>>
>>> Additionally, xCAT patches esxboot.
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/code/16978/tree/xcat-dep/trunk/esxboot/.
>>> I don't think *performance* should be an issue if you observe it actually
>>> using non-tftp, but provided for completeness.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Yixuan Huang <yixuan178 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> hello guys,
>>>> not sure if here is the right place to raise my concern.
>>>> when i used ipxe to load esxboot.efi -c boot.cfg ks=ftp://xx/esxi5
>>>> I can see esxi installer has been loaded, and small size file has been
>>>> downloaded, but when load s.v00 which is 117MB, it will be very slow. when
>>>> i switch to ftp window, it shows only 20kb which is down from 1MB/s in my
>>>> environment.
>>>> I have used two ftp server, both are similar.
>>>> have you met that issue? how to resovle? when i used xcat through
>>>> http,  works fine.
>>>>
>>>> some problem for esxi installer ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> yixuan
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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