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Operating System Provisioning Com-
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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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