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Figure 111. Relationship of OS Provisioning Components
Patching the Operating System Provisioning Server
Exclude the OS Provisioning Server instances from your automated patching in VCM. Patching the
operating system will elevate the minor version and may leave the OS Provisioning Server in an
unsupported state.
How Operating System Provisioning Works
The process of provisioning operating systems on physical or virtual machines includes actions that you
run in VCM, actions that you perform outside VCM, the underlying processes associated with the actions,
and the results.
1. Use VCM to collect the available OS distributions from the OS Provisioning Server.
The collected distributions are displayed in the OS Distributions data grid and are available to install on
target machines.
2. Set the BIOS on the target machines to network boot.
3. Connect the target machines to the provisioning network and turn them on.
The OS Provisioning Server discovers the available target machines.
4. Use VCM to collect the discovered target machines from the OS Provisioning Server.
The discovered target machines appear in the Provisionable Machines data grid by MAC address.
5. Use VCM to send the command that includes the provisioning details to the OS Provisioning Server to
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