Data Center Automation

Ease deployment of Linux operating systems across your enterprise

To support new initiatives and evolving corporate strategies, many businesses today run more than one type of operating system, such as Microsoft® Windows® and Linux®. These organizations often rely on systems administrators who are skilled at deploying Windows operating systems, but have little or no experience with Linux-based systems. Because of the Linux platform’s underlying OS and installation process complexity, it can be challenging to effectively deploy Linux systems. Even companies whose systems administrators have expertise with Linux must often maintain separate servers to deploy Microsoft and Linux systems in heterogeneous environments — entailing additional costly resources and time.

By speeding, simplifying and standardizing OS deployment, IBM Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment lends advantage to all levels of systems administrators, whether trained in the Linux environment or not. This flexible, scalable software provides a single installation server and user interface (UI) for consistently deploying different versions of Linux as well as other types of operating systems — including Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris.

Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment is part of the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager suite of software for managing and driving change across physical and virtual servers, desktops and notebooks, storage and network devices. Your IT organization can get started with Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment and expand with other products from the Tivoli Provisioning Manager product family as your business requirements grow.