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Feature request - Advanced networking booting with ISO

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Hi,

A feature request -

We have baremetal blades that have bonded LACP cards on a VLAN trunk.
If we want to restore a blade by booting from the Veeam ISO, the network manager does not give enough functionality to
get on the network to fetch the backup image from an NFS server.

Having to reconfigure switches to restore a blade is not realistic/practical.

A product that achieves this is Clonezilla by giving you access to the CLI so you can manually configure the networking.
This kind of flexibility would be great in Veeam
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Re: Feature request - Advanced networking booting with ISO

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Hi,

That's a good feature request. Thank you for your feedback!
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I have tried to boot from ISO on VM VMware machine with the VMXNET3 NIC but ISO does not have a driver for this one. Which NICs are supported?
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Are you sure about this? The machine I've used in my lab to do all the blog posts is a vmware VM with a vmxnet3 nic, and it works.
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Re: Feature request - Advanced networking booting with ISO

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That is OK now. In the first I set up the static IP, NIC had "no cable", I went back then to the networking again and the NIC had IP. Now I can execute ping on it.
What NICs are supported?
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What NICs are supported?
E1000 based, vmxnet, vmxnet2, vmxnet3. Other NICs that are supported by 4.3.4 kernel should work fine, though no extensive testing has been conducted.

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+1 i also would like this feature, i also have a blade infrastructure and i cannot restore without editing the port configuration because vlan tagging is not possible while in linux it is quite easy to accomplish
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Re: Feature request - Advanced networking booting with ISO

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Same here. Option for detailed network configuration would be useful.
(support case 02330884)
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