[BESAdmin-Announcements] New update in BigFix OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

HCL Software is pleased to announce an update to BigFix OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging site.


New content:

New feature!                                                     A new Task (303) is available to reset the status of a bare metal target; this allows to start a clean new deployment in case the target got hung due to a failure in a previous deployment attempt

New feature!                                                     It is now possible to deploy RHEL and CentOS images configuring the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) architecture

New Operating System support                    CentOS Linux 8 support up to update 1 (deploy to).
Added support                                                  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 support (deploy to).
Added support                                                  ESXi 6.0 support up to update 3 (deploy to).
Added support                                                  ESXi 6.5 support up to update 3 (deploy to).
Added support                                                  ESXi 6.7 support (deploy to).
Added support                                                  Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Express is now the default database server for the OSD Bare Metal Server on 64-bit architectures.
Added support                                                  Added support to preinstalled Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Express for Bare Metal Server.


Resolved Defect Articles:
KB0075154 - Cannot create deployment media if relay uses a custom port
KB0077586 - Failed Linux deploy on Cisco Hardware in UEFI mode
KB0077682 - Add a driver to OS images not showing multiple selection

Published site version:
OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging, version 87.

The BigFix OS Deployment Team.


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