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OS Deployment Profile
1 Scope
The OS Deployment Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing profiles by adding the
capability to represent OS Deployment feature configuration of the Dell Lifecycle Controller. The OS
Deployment feature consists of:
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.
Ability to boot to the ISO image present on a network share.
Ability to boot to PXE images.
2 Normative References
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
2.1 Approved References
DMTF DSP1033, Profile Registration Profile 1.0.0
DMTF DSP0200, CIM Operations over HTTP 1.2.0
DMTF DSP0004, CIM Infrastructure Specification 2.3.0
DMTF DSP1000, Management Profile Specification Template
DMTF DSP1001, Management Profile Specification Usage Guide
2.2 Other References
ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards,
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=4230456&objAction=browse&sort=subtype
Unified Modeling Language (UML) from the Open Management Group (OMG), http://www.uml.org
3 Terms and Definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
used for statements of possibility and capability, whether material, physical, or causal
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