LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning, a comprehensive and out-of-the-box ready PXE server suite, is delivered both as an OVF Virtual Appliance and as packaged software that you install on an x86-based system or virtual machine running the latest 64-bit version of either RHEL or CentOS 5.x. All required additional software components and network services are automatically downloaded, installed and configured at product installation time.
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Once you have installed LBMP or imported the LBMP virtual appliance, using the provided media management tools, simply upload your operating system or hypervisor ISO files and then start bare metal provisioning of Windows, Linux and ESXi payloads onto servers, blades, PCs, appliances and VMs. You can also perform bare metal imaging: capture (back up) and deploy (restore or clone) disk image payloads simply by entering a client system's network (MAC) address in the GUI and rebooting it. It's that easy!
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 7.0 "Buddy Holly" Supported Platforms
Coming Soon!
| Provisioned and Imaged Operating Systems and Hypervisors | Intel Architecture |
|---|---|
| Servers, Blades, VMs, PCs & Appliances | 64-bit (x86_64/amd64)
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Linux® Distributions and Hypervisors |
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| CentOS 5.x, 6.x & 7.x * | Yes |
| Debian 7 ("Wheezy") & 8 ("Jessie") * | Yes |
| Fedora 21, 22 & 23 * | Yes |
| Oracle® Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x & 7.x * | Yes |
| RHEL (Red Hat® Enterprise Linux) 5.x, 6.x & 7.x * | Yes |
| Ubuntu® 12.04.x LTS ("Precise Pangolin"), 14.04.x LTS ("Trusty Tahr"), 15.10 ("Wily Werewolf"), 16.04.x LTS ("Xenial Xerus") & 16.10.x ("Yakkety Yak") * | Yes |
Microsoft® Windows® Operating Systems |
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| Windows Server 2012 R2 | Yes |
| Windows 8.1 | Yes |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | Yes |
| Windows 7 | Yes |
VMware® Hypervisors |
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| VMware ESXi 5.x & ESXi 6.x | Yes |
* User-extensible: existing control files (e.g. kickstart for Red Hat-based or preseed for Debian-based) can provision other distributions and releases not listed above. Customers seeking support for Linux distributions or operating systems not listed here should contact us.
What other platforms would you like to see us provision?
| Imaged-Only Operating Systems: Capture & Deploy (Restore or Clone) | Intel Architecture |
|---|---|
| Servers, Blades, VMs, PCs & Appliances | 64-bit (x86_64/amd64)
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| Chrome OS & Chromium OS | Yes |
| FreeBSD, NetBSD & OpenBSD | Yes |
| Mac OS® | Yes |
| Minix | Yes |
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.6 "Chuck Berry" and Cisco Server Provisioner 6.5 Supported Platforms
| Provisioned and Imaged Operating Systems and Hypervisors | Intel Architectures | |
|---|---|---|
| Servers, Blades, VMs, PCs & Appliances | 32-bit (i386)
| 64-bit (x86_64/amd64)
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Linux® Distributions and Hypervisors |
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| CentOS and CentOS KVM 4, 5 & 6 | Yes |
Yes |
| Debian 4 ("Etch") & 5 ("Lenny") | Yes |
Yes |
| Fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 | Yes |
Yes |
| RHEL (Red Hat® Enterprise Linux) and RHEL KVM 4, 5 & 6 | Yes |
Yes |
| Ubuntu® 8.04.1 LTS, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 & 10.04 LTS (requires local mirror) | Yes |
Yes |
Microsoft® Windows® Operating Systems |
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| Windows Server 2012 R2 (LBMP 6.6 and 7.1, not CSP 6.5.0) | N/A |
Yes |
| Windows 8.1 (LBMP 6.6 and 7.1, not CSP 6.5.0) | N/A |
Yes |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | N/A |
Yes |
| Windows 7 | N/A |
Yes |
VMware® Hypervisors |
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| VMware ESXi 5.x | N/A |
Yes |
Cisco Server Provisioner Compatibility Matrix
What other platforms would you like to see us provision?
| Imaged-Only Operating Systems: Capture & Deploy (Restore or Clone) | Intel Architecture |
|---|---|
| Servers, Blades, VMs, PCs & Appliances | 64-bit (x86_64/amd64)
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| Chrome OS & Chromium OS | Yes |
| FreeBSD, NetBSD & OpenBSD | Yes |
| Mac OS® | Yes |
| Minix | Yes |