Patent ID: 8832229

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a first server having a first remote management card associated therewith; a Network File System (NFS) server remotely located from the first server and in communication with the first server via a network, the NFS server having at least one selected file stored thereon, the selected file including an operating system; the remote management card configured to: receive a network address of the NFS and a mount point associated with the at least one selected file from a remote administration node in communication with the first server; store the network address of the NFS server and the mount point associated with the at least one selected file; automatically access the at least one selected file stored on the NFS server via the network using the network address and the mount point; and boot the first server to the at least one selected file, the at least one selected file presented from the NFS to the first server as if the at least one selected file was available within a local disk of the first server; wherein use of the NFS server address and the mount point allows the remote management card to automatically provide access to the selected file stored within the NFS server and accessed by the first server without requiring a connection to the remote administration node and also without requiring a browsing software to be installed on the first server.