User's Manual

32 Remote Services Operations
Staging and Booting to Operating System Image on vFlash
This feature allows you to download an ISO image to the vFlash SD card on
the target system and booting the system to this ISO image.
Prerequisite
This feature is available only if you have Dell-licensed vFlash present on your
system.
WS-Management Methods
Important
If the supported SD card is installed and not formatted, executing the
download ISO command will first format the SD card and then download
to ISO image.
The WS-Management methods under the operating system deployment
profile for vFlash are:
• DownloadISOToVFlash - Downloads the image to the vFlash. Support is
available for CIFS, TFTP and NFS.
•
BootToISOFromVFlash - Boots to the ISO image that has been staged on
the vFlash. You cannot perform this action if you are using the iDRAC
GUI or RACADM commands to communicate with the vFlash. This
command will also reboot or power on your system if it is in an
Off state
once executed.
•
DetachISOFromVFlash - Detaches the partition so that the console
cannot access it anymore.
•
DeleteISOFromVFlash - Deletes the ISO image from the vFlash
partition. This command will execute only if the ISO is detached.
You will need to perform the following steps to complete the process:
1
Download the ISO image to the vFlash.
2 Get the concrete job ID and poll for the completion of this job.
3 Run the BootToISOFromVFlash command . This will attach the
image as a CD ROM, boot to the attached image and then continue with
the operating system installation.
4 Get the concrete job ID and poll for the completion of this job.
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