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Operating System and Application Provisioning Using IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager 3.1

Overview This white paper provides information on IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM), VMware ESX Server and IBM Remote Deployment Manager (RDM). It also details the integration points between the three products and how they can be used together to fully automate the installation of operating system and applications on a virtual machine. This white paper intends to help technical consultants on the new software model in TPM 3.1, and also configuration of the automation packages for VMware and IBM RDM.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2005	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Server Consolidation, Infrastructure Management

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