Cloud Net-Booting Beyond BIOS Using the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

摘要

This paper describes a means by which a platform containing an implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) can be used for network booting, provisioning, and service-based scenarios in the pre-operating system (pre-OS). These scenarios include issues of handling scale, throughput, resiliency and trust. Beyond scale, UEFI-based networking supports a compatible path from today's net boot, moving the platform boot into IPV6-enabled world, and meets emergent compute models such as cloud computing.