ManageFusion Day Three News – Symantec leads the endpoint OS management and deployment industry
Symantec is known for OS management and deployment, and today announced significant updates to Altiris Deployment Solution and Ghost Solution Suite. Symantec is providing the next-generation of OS management technologies to help customers of all sizes address OS and data security concerns, the explosion of virtual systems, and heterogeneous hardware and software platforms. See the entire news here.
New features in Deployment Solution 6.9 include:
• A single management console for both virtual and physical OS deployment includes enhanced VMware ESX Server scripted installations.
• Role and scope-based security, based on admin login credentials, provides granular IT access, more security, ease of use, and less chance for human error.
• New platform support: Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008; VMware ESX Server 3.5; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 and 5.1; Macintosh OS X 10.5 (Leopard); Windows CE 6.0 Thin Client.
• Interoperability with Symantec Ghost imaging.
• Automated, rip and replace blade server provisioning.
New Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 features will include:
• DeployAnywhere hardware-independent imaging automation.
• Full-disk encryption support.
• Effortless physical to virtual and virtual to physical image creation.
• Secure disk decommission for data wipe and protection (U.S. Department of Defense compliant).
If you would like to talk to Symantec executives, feel free to contact Symantec PR.
Altiris Agent and Inventory Solution for ESX Server 3.5
Deployment Solution 6.9 seems to have support for VMware ESX Server 3.5.
Will Altiris release an update for Altiris Agent and Inventory Solution so they can install and run on ESX Server 3.5?
Current documentation points at only supporting ESX Server 2.5 and 3.0 at this time. If an update is in the works, when is the release date due?
Thanks,
achayra78
If Symantec Endpoint encryption - how does Altiris DS work?
If you have Symantec Endpoint Encryption for full disk encryption - how does this interoperate with Altiris Deployment Server?
For example - if you initiate a WoL with PXE-boot, with the disk encryption authentication prompt stop the process?
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From my expirence
From my expirence with having the SEE installed it stops the WoL process at the pre-authentication screen.
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