Patent ID: 7991989

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a network services information handling system (IHS) from a client IHS over a network, authentication information that is associated with a user; sending, by the network services IHS to the client IHS over the network in response to authenticating the user using the authentication information received from the client IHS, boot server information; receiving, by a boot server IHS from the client IHS over the network, the authentication information in response to the client IHS receiving the boot server information; receiving, by the network services IHS from the boot server IHS over the network, the authentication information in response to the boot server IHS receiving the authentication information from the client IHS; sending, by the network services IHS to the boot server IHS over the network in response to authenticating the user using the authentication information received from the boot server IHS, boot image information that is associated with a boot image that is based on an identity of the user; and providing, by the boot server IHS to the client IHS over the network, the boot image.