A customer needs to boot from PXE with IPv6 across the Gen10 servers. Which option must be enabled to use this feature?

Question

Options

• AUEFI Boot with IPv6 enabled
• BLegacy One-Time boot menu
• CUEFI Secure Boot
• DHPE Intelligent Provisioning with IPv6 DHCP

• A
  89% (49)
• B
  5% (3)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

UEFI Boot with IPv6 enabled (A) is required because PXE booting over IPv6 depends on the UEFI network stack, which natively supports IPv6 - the older BIOS/Legacy boot mode only supports IPv4. On HPE Gen10 servers, IPv6 PXE (via DHCPv6 and PXE6) is only functional when UEFI Boot mode is active and IPv6 is explicitly enabled in the network boot settings.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (Legacy One-Time Boot Menu): Legacy/BIOS mode uses the traditional PXE stack, which is IPv4-only - it has no IPv6 support.
• C (UEFI Secure Boot): Secure Boot is a signature-verification feature for preventing unauthorized OS loaders; it doesn't enable IPv6 networking capability.
• D (HPE Intelligent Provisioning with IPv6 DHCP): Intelligent Provisioning is a built-in deployment tool, not a boot-mode setting - it doesn't govern PXE protocol behavior.

Memory tip: Think "UEFI = Upgraded networking" - UEFI is the modern firmware standard that brought IPv6 support to the network stack, so any IPv6-dependent network feature (like PXE6) requires UEFI mode to be active.

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