Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - GETTING STARTED REFERENCE 06-17-2009 Getting Started page 11

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Improved automatic configuration of SLES VM hosts
VM management UI (PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client)
New UI themes
Improved list navigation through a "locator pop-up" and a filter field
Improved tooltips related to VM life cycle operations
Visibility into history of VM life cycle operations
Improved event logging (content and format)
Improved VM remote connection setup
Optional manual VM placement in addition to default automated placement
Improved VM remote connection setup
Support for PXE-based installation of virtual machines
PlateSpin Orchestrate Server
Audit database now includes support for historical tracking of VM life cycle operations
New events based on RRD-based averaging of monitored metrics
New platform support
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2 agents are supported on SLES 11 (32-bit and 64-bit)
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2 VM Client and Development Client are supported on SLED
11 (32-bit and 64-bit)
PlateSpin Orchestrate can manage the life cycle of SLES 11 virtual machines (32-bit and
64-bit)
Metrics gathering form 32-bit and 64-bit Windows virtual machines (disk I/O, network I/
O, CPU, and RAM)
New in The 2.0.1 Release
Some of the new features in PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.x include:
New Provisioning Adapters
VMware* ESX
No requirement for customers to run VMware Virtual Center (VMware ESXi
requires Virtual Center)
VMware ESX management is more powerful
Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role enabled
Easy to use new VM management GUI (VM Client)
Exposes only VM-related operations (that is, VM creation and management)
Incorporates many of the VM functions that were previously done in the ZENworks
Orchestrator Console 1.3
Authentication using LDAP
Active Directory* support (in addition to "generic" LDAP)
Administrator privilege based on LDAP group membership
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