Google Tech Talk 11 August 2008 ABSTRACT The advent of high-speed wide-area networks, with new open standards for attached storage coupled enabled relocation of traditional workstation drives to remote datacenter servers and facilitated virtualization of the boot process. It is now possible to load operating systems from remote storage arrays using protocols such as HTTP, iSCSI and AoE, in addition to legacy protocols such as TFTP. In this tutorial we will conduct detailedDemonstrations of network booting Linux and Windows servers and workstations from network-based storage with open source software and open protocols. Speaker: Martin Connor Marty Connor is Project Leader of the Etherboot Project (etherboot.org), a globally distributed team of developers and users of innovative network booting technology. He is the creator and maintainer of the rom-o-matic.net site, the user-generated dynamically gPXE and Etherboot network boot images. Mr. Connor is alsoCEO of Entity Cyber, Inc., a technology consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he advised clients on technology matters for over 20 years. Speaker Michael Brown Michael Brown is the leading developer of the Etherboot Project (etherboot.org) and is responsible for its development in gPXE to boot the current state of the art in a network. He has an open-source consulting firm, Fen Systems Ltd., and spends most of his time on improvements to customers gPXEabout ...
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