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What's New in Deployment Solution 7.5
Jon Sharp Sr. Product Manager
What's New in DS 7.5
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Agenda
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What is it? 1
Architecture Changes 2
New Features 3
New Platform Support 4
Demo 5
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What is Deployment Solution 7.5?
DS 7.5
Lighthouse Phase 1
Greater scaling
Faster performance
More flexibility
Easier to use
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Architecture Changes
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PXE: Architecture
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Reply with old Stored data
Request Instructions
Request Instructions
Request Instructions
Reply with Current data
Reply with Current data
SMP
PXE Server
Client
7.5 7.1
Client
PXE Server
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PXE: 7.1 Site Server Architecture
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7.1 SMP Task DS
Site Server: Task
Package PXE
Site Server: Task
Package PXE
Site Server: Task
Package PXE
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PXE: 7.5 Site Server Architecture
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7.5 SMP Task DS
Site Server: Task
Site Server: Package
Site Server: Package
PXE
Site Server: PXE
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New Features
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MAC Address Filtering
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• Specify to which computers PXE should respond
• White or Black-list
• Independent of managed or unmanaged, known or unknown
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Predefined Computers
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• New UI for adding computers
• Add computers one at a time
• Simplify configuration of multiple NICs
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Managed PC Job List
• Similar to unknown computers
• Specify what image jobs are available to managed computers
• A tech could then initiate a reimage job from the client with no need to enter the console
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Greater PE Flexibility
• Control timeouts
• Set boot image (including the option for "Next Device")
• Also available for Managed computers
• Invoke with F8 on the local computer
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New Platform Support
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The Challenge of Mac Imaging
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Mac Imaging: Our Solution
• Infrastructure
– No Mac OS X Server required
– Leverage existing Site Servers and infrastructure (Same HW as PXE)
• Supported OS
– Snow Leopard (10.6)
– Lion (10.7)
– Mountain Lion (10.8)*
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* Pending the release of 10.8—currently unknown GA date.
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Platform Support
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ESX, ESXi
Provisioning
RHEL 5.5, 6.0
SLES 11
WinPE 3.1
SSL Preboot Agent
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Windows 8
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Imaging support: This is likely to come in a service pack shortly after Orion ships.
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Demo Time
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Thank you!
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