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The OS Deployment Profile extends the management capability of the referencing profiles by adding the
capability to support OS deployment activities by manipulating the OS Deployment features provided by
the Lifecycle Controller. These features include:
Provide supported OS’s and version information from the embedded OS driver pack.
Unpack the OS Driver Update Package and extract drivers for a specified OS. The drivers are
placed on a CIFS or NFS network share.
Unpack the OS Driver Update Package and extract drivers for a specified OS. Expose the
unpacked drivers to the host as a USB hard disk device.
Support booting to a provisioning ISO image located on a network share.
Boot system to PXE.
Get system LOM MAC addresses.
DCIM_OSDeploymentService shall be the Central Class.
Table 1 identifies profiles that are related to this profile.
Table 1 – Related Profiles
Profile Name Organization Version Relationship
Profile Registration Profile DMTF 1.0 Mandatory
6 Description
The OS Deployment Profile describes the OS deployment configuration service, and the methods
exposed to manage the Lifecycle Controller OS deployment features. The profile also describes the
relationship of the OS Deployment Profile classes to DMTF and Dell profile version information.
The interface for the OS deployment feature consists of the following functionality:
Identify the list of OS drivers in the embedded OS driver pack.
Unpack the OS Driver Update Package and extract drivers for a specified OS. The drivers are
placed on a CIFS or NFS network share.
Unpack the OS Driver Update Package and extract drivers for a specified OS. Expose the
unpacked drivers to the host as a USB hard disk device.
Detach of USB device containing the drivers.
Support booting to a provisioning OS image from a network share.
Detach of ISO image from system.
PXE boot the system.
Get system LOM MAC addresses.