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Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment provisions operating systems (OS) and applications to computers using the PXE (Pre-boot eXecution Environment) 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, small-to-medium businesses (SMB) or larger accounts. In this easy-to-follow IBM® Redbooks® publication we cover different image management scenarios with Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, such as Windows® XP, Windows 2003, Vista, and Linux® deployments. We also discuss how to design and implement a highly-effective image management solution for small, medium, and enterprise accounts, taking into consideration network bandwidth limitations and large OS image sizes. We also provide some best practices on how to integrate Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment with other change management products, CD/DVD-based deployment, image redeployment, and troubleshooting. Finally, we cover Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment sales engagement planning, including a sample statement of work. The primary audience for this section is Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Business Partners and pre-sales Systems Engineers. This book is a major reference for IT Specialists and IT Architects working in the im

This IBM Redbook is a deployment guide for both Tivoli Provisioning Manager Version 5.1 and Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software Version 5.1. The new version of Tivoli Provisioning Manager comes in two packages: Tivoli Provisioning Manager Version 5.1, which is the new version of Tivoli Provisioning Manager that includes some of the services currently provided by Tivoli Management Framework plus most of the features formerly referred to as Tivoli Configuration Manager in the context of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Software Version 5.1, which introduces coexistence with an existing Tivoli Management Framework installation and provides a natural progression path from Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2.3.