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 <yixuan...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > ipxe-devel mailing list > ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel > >
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