Search Web HostingLinMin Adds Cloud Architecture and Windows Server 2008 Support in Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0
- By David Hamilton, July 28, 2010
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- After nearly a year of development, IT and hosting automation software developer LinMin (www.linmin.com) has released the latest release of LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning, adding support for cloud architecture and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Deployments.
According to LinMin’s Tuesday announcement, Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 also incorporates enhanced security and media management, an online knowledge base and provisioning support for Windows 7 and all new major versions of Linux.
“LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 incorporates everything we’ve learned from LinMin production deployments in numerous data centers and IT shops worldwide,” LinMin chief executive officer Laurent Gharda said in a statement. Gharda said that these enhancements include “performance, platform support, security over public networks, online self-help, rescue system deployment and the provisioning of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7.”
He continued, “Our new Application Programming Interface enables data centers and OEMs to easily add automated provisioning and imaging to any IT application.”
The new release offers several key new features including the optional Windows Provisioning Module, which enables the deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 systems using the same graphical or programmatic interfaces used to provision all current releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and SLES as well as legacy Windows operating systems. As well, a new online self-help and knowledge base gives customers the ability to learn self-support ability.
LinMin now also offers more streamlined application integration. The latest release boasts an upgraded API, including a new disk imaging interface, enhanced provisioning support, and token and IP-based authentication. LinMin’s API enables cloud, hosting and corporate data centers to seamlessly add provisioning and imaging support to their existing IT applications, enabling full server provisioning, recovery and automated data center cloning. The API also enables independent software vendors and OEMs to augment their offerings with sophisticated provisioning and imaging capabilities.
LinMin helps system administrators automate server provisioning, essentially giving them more flexibility within their data center, and eliminating time-consuming manual processes. Disaster recovery is also substantially streamlined with LinMin’s snapshot rollback capability. LinMin’s browser-based graphical user interface and API lets customers integrate their control panels, cloud orchestrators and other automation tools, simplifying server provisioning, rollback and cloning.
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