“In the trenches” product management - Jo De Baer’s blog

As of right now, an evaluation version of PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2 can be downloaded via download.novell.com. This includes a trial license key. You can use the search engine, or click here.

New in this release :

Provisioning Adapters:

• Usability improvements for connecting to Virtual Center

• 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

• Improved event logging (content and format)

• Visibility into history of VM life cycle operations

• Improved VM remote connection setup

• Optional manual VM placement in addition to default automated placement

• 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)

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