Before you can deploy a licensed operating system to managed
servers, you must import the image into the XClarity Administrator OS images repository.
About this task
For information about operating system images that you can import
and deploy, see Supported operating systems.
The OS images repository can store up to ten operating-system images,
if space is available to store the images (up to 50GB). For a
list of supported base and custom operating systems, see Supported operating
systems.
You can import only one image at a time. Wait until the image
is displayed in the OS images repository before attempting to import another image. Importing the operating
system might take a while.
When you import an operating system
image,
XClarity Administrator:
- Ensures that there is sufficient space in the OS images repository before importing the operating system. If you do not have sufficient
space to import an image, delete an existing image from the repository
and attempt to import the new image again.
- Creates one or more profiles of that image and stores the profile
in the OS images repository. Each profile includes the OS image and installation options.
For more information about predefined OS image profiles, see Operating-system image profiles.
Note: Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge web browsers
have an upload limit of 4 GB. If the file that you are importing is
greater than 4 GB, consider using another web browser (such as Chrome
or Firefox) or copy the file to a remote file server and import
using the Remote import option.
Results
XClarity Administrator uploads the OS image and creates an image profile in the
OS images repository.

From this page, you can
perform the following actions.
Create a remote-file-server profile by clicking the Configure File Server icon (
).
Customize an OS image by clicking the Create Customized
Profile icon (
).
Modify an OS image by clicking the Edit icon (
).
Import a customized OS image profile and apply to a base OS
image by clicking (see Importing a customized OS image profile).
Delete a selected OS image or customized OS image profile by
clicking the Delete icon (
).
Export a selected customized OS image profile by clicking .
Note: When importing Windows Server images, you must also import
the associated bundle file.
Lenovo bundles the predefined WinPE_64.wim
boot file along with a set of device drivers into a single package
that can be downloaded from the Lenovo Windows drivers and WinPE Images Repository
webpage and then imported into OS-images repository. Because the
bundle file contains both device drivers and boot files, you can import
the bundle file from the Device Driver or Boot Files tab..
For more information,
see Importing boot files and Importing device drivers.