HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack 3.50 Release Notes

What’s included

The following software components and versions are included with RDP 3.50:

·            Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8 SP1 NEW

·         Windows Preinstall Environment 2005 (x86 and x64)

·         Linux preboot environment 2.6.16.20 (x86 and IA64 NEW)

·            HP ProLiant Integration Module 3.50 NEW

·         HP ProLiant Support Pack 7.70 NEW

·         HP ProLiant Firmware Maintenance CD 7.70 NEW

·         HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit for Linux 1.6 NEW

·         HP SmartStart Scripting Toolkit for Microsoft® Windows® 1.6 NEW

·            HP Integrity Integration Module 3.50 NEW

·         HP Windows Integrity Support Pack 4.60 NEW

·         HP Linux Integrity Support Pack 3.41 NEW 

·         HP Integrity Essentials SmartSetup Scripting Toolkit for Integrity Servers NEW

·            HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) Integration Module 1.1

What’s new

The following sections list the changes or differences between this RDP 3.50 release and the previous release, RDP 3.10.

General

·            Added Integrity server support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise IA64 Edition and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 for Intel Itanium deployments. 

·            In the Windows Image read jobs, hpprep task has been removed. This task was only needed to support the Foundation Agents 6.40 or earlier.

Platform deployment support

The following platforms have been added to the RDP 3.50 target server support list:

·            ProLiant DL140G3

·            ProLiant DL145G3

·            Integrity BL860c

·            Integrity rx1620

·            Integrity rx2620

·            Integrity rx2660

·            Integrity rx3600

·            Integrity rx4640

·            Integrity rx6600

·            Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 x64 virtual machine

·            VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 virtual machine (replacing VMware ESX Server 3.0 virtual machine)

The following servers have been removed from the target server support list:

·            ProLiant BL10e (first generation)

·            ProLiant BL10e G2

·            ProLiant BL20p (first generation)

Operating system deployment support

The following operating systems supported for deployment using RDP are added with the 3.50 release:

·            Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise IA64 Edition (scripted installation and Sysprep imaging only)

·            Microsoft Windows Vista (imaging only)

·            VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 (scripted installation only) (replacing 3.0)

·            Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4 Update 4 for x86 (replacing Update 3)

·            Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4 Update 4 for AMD64 and Intel® EM64T (replacing Update 3)

·            Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4 Update 4 for Intel Itanium (IA64)

The following operating systems have been removed from the operating system support list:

·            SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for x86

·            SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T deployment.

Documentation

The following documentation is updated with RDP 3.50:

·   Installation guide

·   User guide

·   Support matrix

·   This release notes document

·   Knowledge Base, continually updated with articles, available at http://www.hp.com/servers/rdp/kb

What’s compatible

The following software applications and versions are compatible with RDP 3.50:

·            HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) 5.00 or later

·            HP Insight Control Data Center Edition 1.00 or later

What else

Does not support the Windows automation partition since MSDOS or FreeDos files are not supported by RDP.

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