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

[Yixuan Huang]

Hello Jarrod,
Yes. I used esxboot-x64.efi from xcat. I have not noticed error about
BOOTIF or something else when booting.

Thanks,
yixuan


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Jarrod Johnson
<jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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