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Deploy RSI Images to Bare-Metal Servers

RSI enables you to deploy a complete image, including operating system and RSI agent, to a physical server or virtual machine that currently contains no software. Bare-metal deployment enables you to add a physical server, such as a UCS blade, or add a new virtual machine to your environment, and then provision it with a complete image containing all your software requirements.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Resources, right-click the machine or environment to deploy to in the Explore tree, and select Provisioning, Add a new Windows/Linux System (RSI).

   The Add Bare Metal wizard opens.

2. Select the RSI Server and Depot to use, and the Images to deploy.
3. (Optional) If multiple networks are registered, select the network to use for deployment.
4. Specify the Machine Type.
   • Specify the Target MAC for a Physical machine.
   • Specify the Hypervisor and Target Server ID for a virtual machine.
5. (Optional) Select Scale to deploy only the parts of the image containing data, and set a Profile URL of an external file containing deployment parameters.
6. (Windows Only) Select a Driver Set to deploy.

   Note: After you successfully deploy a Windows image, Windows runs chkdsk. The target system automatically restarts, then Windows runs PnP (plug-and-play) and installs drivers.

7. (Optional) Specify a Host Name to apply to the machine hosting the image and select Network Interfaces to use.

   Note: Setting a host name overrides the host name in the image or in a profile.

8. Click OK.

   The wizard submits a request to deploy the image to the target machine. Track the progress of the deployment in the Jobs pane.