LinMin, provider of IT automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning™, today launches its Server Provisioning Virtual Appliance, aimed at accelerating the automated deployment of systems running Linux, Windows Server, VMware ESXi and other hypervisors in fast-growing or frequently-repurposed data centers.
The LinMin Server Provisioning Virtual Appliance is packaged as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) virtual machine with the most current versions of CentOS Linux and LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning pre-installed. Simply import the Virtual Appliance, apply operating system and/or hypervisor ISO files, and the Virtual Appliance’s templates will guide you in remotely installing Windows Server, Linux, ESXi and hypervisors on servers, blades and Virtual Machines. Using a special technology, the Server Provisioning Virtual Appliance can also can also capture, restore and clone entire systems.
When remotely provisioning Windows and Linux, software agents or even entire application stacks such as Hadoop can also be installed and configured, facilitating the consumption of servers in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) data centers targeting high-growth areas including Big Data.
The Server Provisioning Virtual Appliance’s Application Programming Interface (API) enables rapid integration with other IT Automation solutions, such as orchestrators, service catalogs, self-service portals and control panels, and for IT Automation solution providers, OEM-branded versions of the Server Appliance are available.
“LinMin is vendor-neutral, offering customers the ultimate flexibility when selecting system manufacturers, OS providers and data center topologies, with the assurance that our Virtual Appliance will meet their data center system deployment requirements,” said Laurent Gharda (@LinMin), CEO and founder of LinMin Corp. “The Server Provisioning Virtual Appliance sets new standards for ease of installation, configuration and usability in an arena where traditional data center solutions have been costly and difficult to implement.”
