LinMin Introduces Bare Metal 5.2
 

LinMin, a provider of the LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning solution, today unveiled Release 5.2, featuring a new Application Programming Interface, single-command installation, numerous feature enhancements and support for the provisioning and imaging of additional platforms. The company says that the API is designed to allow customers and partners to integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning into environments that presently cannot do bare metal provisioning of Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora or Asianux on physical systems or virtual machines.

The company articulates that the API offers both a graphical user interface that can be integrated into other web-based applications, and a traditional programmatic interface, giving customers flexibility. The example GUI can also be used as a teaching mechanism with the option to view in real time the API-compliant commands that get issued to and the responses received from the LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning server.  This enables software developers to quickly develop API calls with real-time debugging, reducing implementation times.