Ghost Solution Suite

We are pleased to announce Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 (English) has been certified and shipped to manufacturing. This release sees a host of new features including:


Bundled WinPE 2.0 PreOS
Both the console, and the standard tools include WinPE 2.0 in addition to PC-DOS. This greatly improves hardware compatibility.


DeployAnywhere
The new hardware-independent imaging feature allows a single image to be deployed to diverse hardware, and obtain the necessary drivers from a centrally managed driver database.


Hot Imaging
Images may be created hot, using Volume Snapshot in Windows and Logical Volume Manager in Linux.


Secure Computer Decommission
The Console has a task to perform the secure erase of a computer for decommissioning, or prior to re-imaging.


Support for VMDK and V21/PQI Images
VMDK virtual disk, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (V2I) and Symantec Deploy Center (PQI) images can be deployed directly from the Console and from Ghost.


Better Sysprep Support
Console contains a Sysprep Answer File Editor as well as being able to edit the raw file.


Bundled Linux PreOS
Linux Thinstation distro is bundled as and unmanaged PreOS.


Native Linux versions of Tools
Linux versions of Ghost, Gdisk, Ghconfig, Ghregedit, Omnifs.


For more information, please visit www.ghost.com


Cheers,
GSS Taniwha

Message Edited by GSS Taniwha on 05-05-2008 03:34 PM