Provisioning Process Overview

Operating system (OS) provisioning is the act of installing a given operating system across several hosts. This process consists of several high-level steps:

1. Configure your hardware to support OS provisioning. A more detailed discussion of appropriate configuration recommendations and requirements is in Supported Systems and Chapter 3, OS Provisioning Deployment Environment.

2. Install the OS provisioning plug-in, as described in Installing the OS Provisioning Plug-In.

3. Create the OS provisioning server, as explained in Creating the OS Provisioning Server.

4. Define appropriate target hosts to be provisioned. See Chapter 8, Target Hosts for OS Provisioning.

5. Provision the appropriate operating system onto the target hosts. See Chapter 5, Provisioning the Solaris Operating System, Chapter 6, Provisioning the Linux Operating Environment, and Chapter 7, Provisioning the Windows Operating Environment.