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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Security Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to VCM Security
- Domain Infrastructure
- VCM Installation Kits
- Server Zone Security
- VCM Collector Server
- SQL Server
- Web Server
- VCM Agent Systems and Managed Machines
- VCM User Interface System
- Software Provisioning Components
- Operating System Provisioning Components
- Decommissioning
- Authentication
- Transport Layer Security
- Keys and Certificates
- How VCM Uses Certificates
- Installing Certificates for the VCM Collector
- Changing Certificates
- Delivering Initial Certificates to Agents
- Storing and Transporting Certificates
- Mark a Certificate as Authorized on Windows
- Creating Certificates Using Makecert
- Update the Collector Certificate Thumbprint in the VCM Database
- Managing the VCM UNIX Agent Certificate Store
- Supplemental References
- Index
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Operating System Provisioning
Components
Operating System Provisioning Components
VCM operating system provisioning deploys operating system images to targets that are started over the
network. The target machine uses a PXE startup process to contact a DHCP server that identifies the OS
Provisioning Server as the source of a bootable image, referred to as a distribution. The target machine
then requests the bootable distribution across Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and boots the
distribution, which in turn installs an operating system that is also retrieved from the OS Provisioning
Server.
The OS Provisioning Server components consist of operating system provisioning extensions to VCM and
an OS Provisioning Server.
Figure 11–1. Operating System Provisioning Components
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