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by bogota 712 days ago
As far as i know most places are still using iPXE and Tftp to load an image with some custom provisioning framework.

It worked really well but I haven’t worked on large scale DCs for a few years now so maybe some new stuff happened
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bayindirh 712 days ago
PXE is still the king in large DCs. I can install ~250 servers in 15 minutes with a single xCAT node over traditional gigabit Ethernet. Give another 5 minutes for post-install provisioning and presto!

Your fleet is ready.

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bogota 712 days ago
Nice! That was my experience as well. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t falling too far out of date while I switched to some MLops roles for a while.
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ClassyJacket 712 days ago
I don't know about servers and stuff but I'm using PXE to image a Surface Pro right now.
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