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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2016
Brian Wheeler, Cherry hills, CO (US);
Jeffrey Drazan, Woodside, CA (US);
Brian Wheeler, Cherry hills, CO (US);
Jeffrey Drazan, Woodside, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
In one embodiment, a deployment server is communicatively coupled with many computing devices requiring updated system installations based on requirements of a session user of the computer devices. Upon booting, the computing devices send remote installation requests to the deployment server. The deployment server matches identification data of the computer devices with corresponding target installation profiles defined according to the requirements of the session user in an installation database. Identification data of a computing device comprises a programmable MAC address. Based on the target installation profiles, the deployment server causes remote installation instructions and files to be sent to the computer devices based on the corresponding target installation profiles. The many computing devices perform installation of heterogeneous operating systems, hypervisors, virtual machines, software and/or software license concurrently under direction of the deployment server based on the remote installation instructions and files. In another embodiment, the deployment server is PXE-compliant.