System requirements

To enable and use OS deployment in your environment, ensure that you have the required software prerequisites.

IBM BigFix prerequisites:

OS Deployment requires IBM BigFix version 8.2 , 9.0, 9.1 or 9.2.

O Deployment supports a subset of the operating systems supported by BigFix. For a complete list of supported operating systems for BgFix components, see

OS Deployment supports capturing, imaging, and bare metal OS provisioning of the following operating systems:

Windows:

• Microsoft™ Windows™ 10 (x86, x64) Education, Pro, and Enterprise editions⁵
• Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x86, x64¹)
• Microsoft Windows 8 (x86, x64¹)
• Microsoft Windows 7 (x86, x64¹)
• Microsoft Windows Vista (x86, x64^{1, 3})
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional (x86, x64) ⁴
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (x64)¹
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)¹
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (x64) with Hyper-V role¹
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) with Hyper-V role¹
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 (x64)¹
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (x64)¹
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)¹
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64¹)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (x86, x64)⁴
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (x86, x64)^{2, 4}

Note:

1. These operating systems are supported both in BIOS and UEFI firmware. All other operating systems in BIOS only.
2. For this operating system, any 2003 OS resource can be used for both capture and deployment of a 2003 WIM image.
3. On UEFI firmware, SP2 is required.
4. Image import from installation media (ISO) is not supported
5. To deploy Windows 10, you must have an MDT Bundle version 3.8.12 or later, created with MDT 2013 Update 1 and Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (WADK) 10. Reimaging to Windows 10 requires that the IBM BigFix Client version 9.2.5 or later is installed on the source operating system before you start the reimage process.

The prerequisites for the IBM® BigFix clientcomputer on which you build the MDT bundle are described in Installing MDT Bundle Creators. You can install all prerequisites using the Bundle and Media Manager dashboard.

Linux:

OS Deployment supports capturing, imaging and bare metal provisioning of the following operating systems:

• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Versions 5, 6 (x86, x64^1,3)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Version 7 (x64 ¹)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Version 10 ² and 11 (x86, x64^1,3)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Desktop (SLED) Version 12 (x64)

Note:

1. For x64 architectures, these operating systems are supported for both BIOS and UEFI firmware. For x86 architectures, only BIOS is supported.
2. SUSE Version 10 is supported only as a source operating system for reimaging.
3. Capture of RHEL version 5, and SLES/SLED Version 10 and 11 systems is not supported.

VMware :

the following OS versions are supported for bare metal provisioning on targets:

• VMware ESXi 5.x, up to 5.5 Update 3
• VMWare ESXi 6.0, and 6.0 Update 1

Note:

1. This platform is supported on BIOS firmware only.