ZENworks 11 SP4 appliance is based on a new appliance architecture that is targeted to ease manage, monitor, patch, and upgrade the underlying appliance platform. The ZENworks Appliance is simple to deploy and maintain, and delivers a highly scalable ZENworks solution.
Some of the main features of the Appliance include:
Multiple Hypervisor Support: Supports VMware ESXi/vSphere, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.
Simplified Setup Experience: Includes a web-based facility to configure ZENworks, to easily create Certificate Signing Requests for external certificates, and to easily import certificate responses.
Simplified Management Experience: Provides a simplified management experience that includes:
Suite of web-based tools: A suite of web-based tools to access server configuration and Ganglia monitoring, network configuration, firewall, configuration files, log configuration and log files, files uploaded or downloaded from the appliance, and the terminal session to run ZENworks commands.
Appliance Update Framework: It supports a channel based update. Based on entitlements the update channels will be available, you can apply updates through the ZENworks Appliance web console.
System Updates: System updates for regular updates of the ZENworks platform.
Simplified Migrate Experience: Provides you with:
A migration utility to migrate from the ZENworks 11 SP3 Appliance to the ZENworks 11 SP4 Appliance.
A new and simple appliance migrate process.
A significant decrease in time and effort to migrate.
For more information, see the ZENworks Appliance 11 SP4 Deployment and Administration Reference.