Hi there Techies,
I'm running into some trouble with PXE boot from a 2012 R2 server.
Situation:
Os: Windows server 2012 R2
Role: Windows deployment services
Issue: PXE boot is extremely slow, not workable slow.
I've configured the Windows deployment services role on the 2012 R2 machine.
When I connect a device to PXE boot it does work, but it is taking so extremely long before PXE boot has been downloaded completely to a laptop/desktop and Virtual server.
The same system in the same environment has been set up on a 2008 R2 system, when I use this to arrange the PXE boot it works like it should withint 2/3 minutes.
both of the servers are set up on a Hyper-V server and the settings of both virtual machines are exactly the same
2012 r2 gives you an extra tab in the configuration of WDS called TFTP. The server handles the PXE boot requests differently in comparison to a 2008 r2 server!
What I've tried so far on the 2012 R2 server:
- I've tried to change the TFTP block size (http://windowsdeployments.net/how-to-speed-up-pxe-boot-in-wds-and-sccm/)
- I've changed the settings on the tab of the WDS role (go to WDS role -> properties on server -> Tab "tftp")
Is someone else experiencing this same issue? I can't seem to get this working and it's really frustrating me that it works with 2008R2 without any issues and it just does not work in the correct way with 2012 R2. It takes more then 30 minutes before the PXE boot is completed and with every time you retry to start PXE boot it seems to get slower. After more then 60 minutes I just turned the machine off.
The PXE boot is downloading a file of 1100MB.
I hope you guys might be able to help!