Patent ID: 8522002

Claim:
A method to deploy a boot image in a diskless server in a computer system, comprising: initiating, in a remote management server coupled to a RAID controller in the computer system by an out-of-band communication link and without receiving a request from a first diskless server, a command to instruct the RAID controller to create at least a first logical volume in a memory module coupled to the RAID controller; transmitting the command to the RAID controller via the out-of-band communication link; in response to the command, creating, by the RAID controller, the first logical volume for the boot image; transmitting a boot image from the remote management server to the RAID controller via the out-of-band communication link; storing the boot image in the first logical volume; assigning ownership of the first logical volume to the first diskless server in the computer system; and initiating a boot operation for the first diskless server, wherein the first diskless server boots from the boot image in the first logical volume.