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Operating System (OS) Deployment Profile
1 Scope
The Operating System (OS) Deployment Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing
profiles by adding the capability to represent OS deployment configuration features. The OS deployment
feature consists of:
 Provide the supported OS and version information from the embedded OS driver pack.
 Unpack the OS Driver Update Package (DUP) and extract drivers for a specified OS; the drivers
are placed on a local flash drive (nvram) or on a network share.
 Expose the unpacked drivers to the host as a USB device.
 Ability to boot to PXE images.
 Ability to boot to the ISO image present on a network share.
 Ability to download ISO Image and save it in vFlash.
 Ability to boot to the ISO present in vFlash.
2 Normative References
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
2.1 Approved References
DMTF DSP1033, Profile Registration Profile 1.0.0
DMTF DSP0200, CIM Operations over HTTP 1.2.0
DMTF DSP0004, CIM Infrastructure Specification 2.3.0
DMTF DSP1000, Management Profile Specification Template
DMTF DSP1001, Management Profile Specification Usage Guide
2.2 Other References
ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards,
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=4230456&objAction=browse&sort=subtype
Unified Modeling Language (UML) from the Open Management Group (OMG), http://www.uml.org
3 Terms and Definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.