Patent ID: 7882562

Claim:
An apparatus to deploy sensitive communication parameters to a diskless computing device, the apparatus comprising: a parameter structure module configured to store one or more Internet Small Computer System Interface (“iSCSI”) communication parameters in an extendable data structure configured to store a set of basic parameter settings and a set of extended parameter settings; a link module configured to establish a secure link between a computer and a diskless computing device over a physically secure connection comprising an out-of-band connection, wherein the computer and the diskless computing device are further connected with an additional connection comprising an in-band connection; and a deployment module configured to deploy the extendable data structure over the secure connection to a non-volatile memory in the diskless computing device, wherein the non-volatile memory is configured to provide sensitive iSCSI communication parameters provided by the extendable data structure to a CPU of the diskless computing device during a boot sequence, wherein all or a portion of the parameter structure module, the link module, and the deployment module comprise one or more of logic hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more computer readable storage media.