1.1 Support Matrix for ZENworks Imaging

The following table shows the items that are supported for ZENworks imaging.

Item Type

Items supported for ZENworks

Fixed disk types

  • Basic disks

  • Solid State drives

  • Advanced Format drives

Fixed disk controller types

  • IDE

  • SATA

Firmware interface

  • BIOS is supported on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

  • UEFI 2.3.0 and above is supportedon 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

    32-bit UEFI device Imaging is supported only through Third-Party Imaging.

    NOTE:Imaging operations for Linux are not supported on the UEFI firmware.

Disk partition type

  • MBR (Master Boot Record based partitioning for systems using the BIOS firmware)

  • GPT (GUID Partition Table)

File Systems

  • NTFS

  • NTFS Extended

  • FAT32X

  • FAT32

  • FAT12

  • FAT6

  • EXT4

    NOTE:The EXT4 Write support is experimental in ZENworks Imaging due to the limitations of the SLES 11 SP2 software distribution. For more information, see ZENworks 11 SP3 documentation.

  • EXT3

  • EXT2

  • Reiser FS

Volumes

  • LVM Physical volumes

Encryption type

  • FDE (Novell Full Disk Encryption)

Boot scenarios

  • Single Boot Only (Windows OS or Linux OS)

Hardware architectures

  • x86

  • x86_64

NOTE:Novell offers only experimental support for Imaging devices on virtual machines. Novell may not respond personally to all support requests regarding Imaging devices on virtual machines.