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Operating System (OS) Deployment Profile 181
1 Scope 182
The Operating System (OS) Deployment Profile extends the management capabilities of referencing 183
profiles by adding the capability to represent OS deployment configuration features. The OS deployment 184
feature consists of: 185
• Provide the supported OS and version information from the embedded OS driver pack. 186
• Unpack the OS Driver Update Package (DUP) and extract drivers for a specified OS; the drivers 187
are placed on a local flash drive (nvram) or on a network share. 188
• Expose the unpacked drivers to the host as a USB device. 189
• Ability to boot to PXE images. 190
• Ability to boot to the ISO image present on a network share. 191
• Ability to download ISO Image and save it in vFlash. 192
• Ability to boot to the ISO present in vFlash. 193
2 Normative References 194
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated 195
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced 196
document (including any amendments) applies. 197
• DMTF DSP1033, Profile Registration Profile 1.0.0 198
• DMTF DSP0200, CIM Operations over HTTP 1.2.0 199
• DMTF DSP0004, CIM Infrastructure Specification 2.3.0 200
• DMTF DSP1000, Management Profile Specification Template 201
• DMTF DSP1001, Management Profile Specification Usage Guide 202
• Dell Lifecycle Controller Best Practices Guide 1.0, 203
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20066173.aspx 204
• Dell WSMAN Licenses and Privileges 1.0 205
• ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards, 206
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=4230456&objAction=browse&sort=subtype 207
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) from the Open Management Group (OMG), 208
http://www.uml.org 209
• Dell Tech Center MOF Library:http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.MOF 210
• Related Managed Object Format (MOF) files: 211
o DCIM_OSDeploymentService.mof 212