Patent ID: 7600005
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for provisioning a plurality of heterogeneous operating systems on a plurality of target hosts comprising: a single operating system (OS) profile model for maintaining OS information about a selected OS of the plurality of heterogeneous operating systems; a first target host model for maintaining information about a first target host of the plurality of target hosts, wherein the first target host model is separate from the single OS profile model and is OS independent; a second target host model for maintaining information about a second target host of the plurality of target hosts, wherein the second target host model is distinct from the first target host model, and wherein the second target host model is separate from the single OS profile model and is OS independent; a plurality of pluggable hardware services accessing the single OS profile model and configured to: wherein provisioning the first target host and the second target host uses the same single OS profile model, wherein each target host of the plurality of target hosts is a physical computer system in a data center.