Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5

Symantec announced Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 was released on May 4. New features include:

• Bundled WinPE 2.0 PreOS
• Both the console, and the standard tools include WinPE 2.0 in addition to PC-DOS. This greatly improves hardware compatibility.
• DeployAnywhere
• The new hardware-independent imaging feature allows a single image to be deployed to diverse hardware, and obtain the necessary drivers from a centrally managed driver database.
• Hot Imaging
• Images may be created hot, using Volume Snapshot in Windows and Logical Volume Manager in Linux.
• Secure Computer Decommission
• The Console has a task to perform the secure erase of a computer for decommissioning, or prior to re-imaging.
• Support for VMDK and V21/PQI Images
• VMDK virtual disk, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (V2I) and Symantec Deploy Center (PQI) images can be deployed directly from the Console and from Ghost.
• Better Sysprep Support
• Console contains a Sysprep Answer File Editor as well as being able to edit the raw file.
• Bundled Linux PreOS
• Linux Thinstation distro is bundled as and unmanaged PreOS.
• Native Linux versions of Tools
• Linux versions of Ghost, Gdisk, Ghconfig, Ghregedit, Omnifs.

You can read more about Symantec Ghost Solution Suite at Ghost.com