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- Configure your DHCP server with next-server and filename parameters.
- Configure PortFast on the switch ports leading to the storage cluster nodes.
- Configure the TFTP server with PXE bootstrap, configuration, and Swarm files.
- Set up the nodes' BIOS configurations for network booting.
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| To prevent PXE boot failures, be sure to increase Increase the size of the initrd RAM disk to 160MB on your PXE boot server to prevent PXE boot failures. This does not apply if you use using Platform Server. |
Setting up the DHCP server for PXE booting
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- Install and configure TFTP server software on the boot server.
- Create the /tftpboot directory hierarchy.
- Copy the kernel and fsimage files to the /tftpboot/profiles/castor directory.
See DHCP and Boot Server Redundancy, below.
Installing and configuring TFTP
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