This makes many network administrators unhappy, as Apple does not offer an enterprise-level Mac anymore, not since the 2009 XServe was discontinued. The biggest issue, of course, is that it’s OS X-only, meaning that Mac deployment relies on having a Mac in a data-center environment. Some of its functionality is almost black-box opaque, and we have to make some guesses and assumptions, and do some wrestling to make it work the way we want.
This free tool has been the mainstay of many deployment strategies, and has been my old faithful for years.ĭespite its utility and functionality, it has some issues. For a long time, Mac Admins have been relying on the wonderfully useful tool DeployStudio. Methods to netboot system are located with Apple article. You can add pre-installation and post-installation tasks to customize the image before deployment. The Capture Finished prompt appears, and the appliance displays the image on the System Images page.Ĩ. Leaving it unticked will create a KImage. Select Capture Apple ASR format Image if you wish to capture the image in the Mac native image format. Typically, the volume is Macintosh® HD.ĥ. Select the appropriate volume to capture. In Image Name, enter a name to identify the image on the K2000 as a Mac image.Ĥ. Boot the target device in to the NetBoot environment to display the K2000 Imaging Utility, which enables you to capture the image as a system image for deployment.ģ.
Select the Enable the NetBoot server (for Mac OS X clients) check box.Ĭapture the Mac 10.9, 10.10 or 10.11 system imageġ. Go to the K2000 appliance and click Settings to display the Control Panel, then click Network Settings to display the Network Settings page.Ģ. It is planned to resolve this issue in a future version.ġ. The client mounts the disk image over NFS, so it only grabs the part of the image that it needs. However, the entire environment is not downloaded in order to boot. *Note: In 3.7SP2, the 10.11 NetBoot Environment takes up approximately 17.5GB of space. Select the name of the Mac OS X environment to be default. Go to the K2000 appliance and click Settings to display the Control Panel, then click General Settings to display the General Settings page.Ģ. Set the default NetBoot environment and enable the NetBoot server after you create the NetBoot environmentġ. Set the new environment as the default NetBoot environment and enable the NetBoot server.
This password will be used to login to the netboot environment.Ħ Click Start Build and the NetBoot environment uploads to the K2000 appliance.ħ. Enter a NetBoot Password and confirm the Password.
From the K2000 appliance, download the K2000 Media Manager Mac application and enter the K2000 Hostname, Source Media Name, and in the Source Media Path field, click Browse to select OS X Mavericks installer app or the Yosemite installer app to upload the source media to the K2000.ĥ. You can also download the installer app to a USB device or a different location to use as a backup.ģ. Verify that the OS X installer app downloaded to the Application folder. Connect the latest Mac device in your environment to the App Store to download the OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, or Mavericks installer app.Ģ. Note: The Mac OS X Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan installer app do not require creating a USB boot disk for the image.Ĭreate the NetBoot environment on a device running the same version of the operating system as the NetBoot environment you are making.ġ.
Creating a 10.10 Netboot Environment requires approximately 25GB of free space on the workstation, whereas creating a 10.11 Netboot Environment requires approximately 45GB.