Vista Deployment Using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment

Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems and applications to computers using the Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) industry standard for bare-metal installation. A bare-metal installation eliminates the need for an operating system to be present on a local disk drive. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is a turn-key solution to the most common provisioning issues and provides an easy to use, turn-key solution for education, SMB, or larger accounts.

In this IBM Redpaper, we discuss how to deploy Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, using Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment.

Note that this IBM Redpaper is specifically geared to IT Specialists who will be working on Vista deployment projects. For a full discussion of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, including installation, customization, and other product integrations, refer to Deployment Guide Series: Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment V5.1, SG24-7397.

• IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility, SG24-7460-01
• Deployment Guide Series: Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment V5.1, SG24-7397-00
• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03

Publish Date
15 March 2007

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06 April 2007

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Author(s)

Vasfi Gucer is an IBM Certified Consultant IT Specialist working at the ITSO Austin Center. He worked with IBM Turkey for 10 years and has been with the ITSO since January 1999. He has more than 12 years of experience in systems management, networking hardware, and distributed platform software. He has worked on various Tivoli customer projects as a Systems Architect in Turkey and the United States. Vasfi is also a Certified Tivoli Consultant.

• Vasfi Gucer

Dominique Bertin holds a Technology Certificate in Electric Engineering from the University of Creteil, near Paris in France. He worked as an Honeywell Bull representative on different mainframe customers sites for seven years, and then started working as a Software Engineer in the National Software Center in the Bull company. After 12 years at Bull, he joined a software services company that was acquired by Candle corporation five years later. After IBM acquired Candle, he moved to a Tivoli pre-sales position. He is currently assigned to the Tivoli Configuration Manager, Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, and Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software products within the Tivoli Business Automation segment.

• Dominique Bertin

Richard Hine has a Bachelors degree in medical Science from the University of Manchester in the UK, and has worked for IBM since 1981. He worked with IBM Mainframes for 11 years, doing services and support roles, with MVS, IMS, and VTAM, and took assignments to teach automation techniques and assembler programming. During this time, he also took a job supporting the IBM first Point of Sale deployment in Europe at Boots of Nottingham in the U.K. He moved to country technical support in 1991 to support IBM network management tools on distributed systems, where he taught at the international education center in La Hulpe, and supported field services engagements for the NetView automation family of products, both distributed and mainframe. During this time, Richard also did several international services engagements in the Middle East, and wrote an ANO based TCP/IP monitoring application that was used in IBM South Africa. Richard moved to Tivoli in 1996 when IBM acquired Tivoli. He worked in a pre-ales role for the UK, on all Framework products, while also leading the UK Advanced Technology Team. He was certified in 2002, and has been published in the Managed View and two other IBM Redbooks publications. Currently, he works with the Tivoli Performance and Business automation products in a pre-sales capacity for the UK Financial Services Sector.

• Richard Hine

IBM Form Number
REDP-4295-00

Number of pages

66