•Re-architected MAC-Specific Provisioning and MAC-Specific Imaging, enabling "PXE IP address pre-assignment" based on Client MAC addresses at the time of a Role activation, providing significantly enhanced network configuration tolerance during provisioning and imaging events. Now 2 ranges of PXE IP addresses exist: PXE Boot IPs and PXE Event IPs

 

•New DHCP log (dhcpPXEmanagement.log) showing the history of bootp range IP address assignments to specific Client MAC addresses used in MAC-Specific Provisioning and Imaging

 

•New network validation and re-configuration script (linmin-config-check.sh) that simultaneously updates all Linux system and Provisioner PXE Server configuration files when networking and other configuration changes are made to the Provisioner PXE Server. The script is available standalone and is also automatically invoked during installation to help validate and change network settings immediately prior to installing the Provisioner

 

•New script to capture PXE network traffic (ports 67 and 69) reaching the Provisioner PXE Server

 

•Imaging subsystem upgraded to the Clonezilla February 2011 Release, with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, for enhanced performance and augmented Client NIC driver support

 

•Imaging subsystem now supports backup and restore parameters, accessible from the GUI, to provide greater control over MBR, file system and other operations

 

•Imaging now supports restoring disk images of any supported OS class to systems running any supported OS class (e.g., an ESX backup can be restored to a compatible system that was previously running any supported version of Linux or Windows, and vice-versa)

 

•The optional ESX Provisioning Module (EPM) now provisions ESXi

 

•"Live Ubuntu" rescue system upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat for enhanced performance and augmented Client NIC driver support

 

•Installable package enhancements: Provisioner, WPM and EPM now include internal and automatically invoked MD5sum checks, preventing installation or upgrade in case of file/download corruption; other installation enhancements

 

•Debian media loading script now presents to the user the mirror sites' recommended release number automatically

 

•GUI and User's Guide branding enablement

 

Note: patches have been issued for Provisioner 6.2 and are available on the download site.