Provisioning server

PVS Components:

Provisioning

Target Device

vDisk

Licensing

Database

PVS Services :

Important services

Stream Services : Responcible to stream virtual disk to the target device.

SOAP Services : Simple object access protocol. Simple and basic Xml baced communication protocol between applications to send messages.

Licensing services

Optinal services-

DHCP/BootP : Below options must be selected

Option60 : PXEClient

Option66: FQDN or IP address of the TFTP Services.

Option67: ARDBP32.bin

PXE : (Pre-xcution environment)

TFTP :

Boot Process -

1. The target device is assigned an IP sddrfess by DHCP or a boot device manager.

2. The target device obtains a bootstrap file fromthe network or from a boot device manager.

3. The target device connects to the stream services running on provisioning server.

4. The Provisioning server begin streaming the vDisk image to the target device.

5. The taeget device requests new vDisk image sectors as necessary to access data.