Slides from 2010 Linux Day

Today's Agenda
• Why SUSE Linux Enterprise?

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1

• Build & Deploy

• Secure

• Manage

• Availability & Disaster Recovery

2 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Why SUSE Linux Enterprise?

• Linux Distributions Share 90 to 95% of the Same Components
– Most technical differentiators are very short-lived...
– ...though SUSE Linux has always been a technical leader
• So How Do You Choose the Best Linux Distribution?
– Corporate Strategy
– Best of Breed Solution Stacks
– Interoperability
– Support
– Partner Ecosystem & Application Certification
– Market Trends


Intelligent Workload Management

Intelligent Workload Management
enables IT organizations to manage
and optimize computing resources
in a policy-driven, secure and
compliant manner across physical,
virtual and cloud environments to
deliver business services for Intelligent
end customers. WORKLOAD
Management


A Desktop to Data Center Platform

SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop
End User
Thin Client Devices
Desktop

SUSE Linux
Enterprise Retail
Point of Service
Kiosk/ATM Retail/POS Appliances

SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server
Open Enterprise
Server Proxy,
File & Print Firewall, VPN Email WAP, VOIP
Caching

SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux
Enterprise Real Time ERP, SCM,
Mainframe Cluster SAN Database Web
CRM, HR

Best of Breed Solution Stacks -
Mixed-Source Approach
• Novell has a large portfolio of Open Source and
proprietary products
– Able to provide complete Data Center solutions using best of
breed technologies
> SLE, ZLM, Virtualization, Workload Management, BSM
– Better positioned to work with ISVs that sell proprietary
software
> Example: Microsoft
• RedHat is a purely Open Source company
– Limited solution offerings


Interoperability
• Windows Integration
– Active Directory Integration – Out of the Box
– Support for Windows 7 domain logon with Samba 3.4
• eDirectory, NIS, and LDAP Integration
• Improved interoperability with next-generation
network filesystem
– NFS v4.1 extends support for file system ACLs and
interoperability to UNIX systems such as Solaris
• Linux Standards Base 4.0 certification
– Interoperability with other Linux distributions


Virtualization
• Out-of-the-Box Virtualization Host
– Xen 4.0 & KVM
• Out-of-the-box Perfect Guest, Optimized for:
> SLES Xen / KVM
> Citrix XenServer
> VMWare
> MicroSoft Hyper-V
• Simplified Virtualization Pricing
– Pay once for physical node
– Run a unlimited number of VMs


Support Overview

Novell is the only Linux software company worldwide that offers
®

comprehensive enterprise level support for your entire Linux
environment – from the desktop to the data center.
• Priority access to expert resources, 24x7x365
• Fast and predictable response times
• Full-service support offering
• Dedicated resources for personalized support
• Relationship management
• Field-based technical resources
• Support packages for every size customer
• World-wide breadth (11 Global Support Centers)
• Award-winning support and service


Standard Platform Life-cycle

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10

GA General

SP1 General Long Term

SP2 General Long Term

SP3 General Long Term Self

SP4 General Self

Total General Self

Long Term Service
General General Support Long Term Self Self Support
Pack Support

• 10-year life-cycle (7 years general support, 3 years self support)
• Service packs every 16-18 months, major releases every 3-4 years
• Six month upgrade window
• Long-term service pack support option available

Certified Linux ISV Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise 9+ vs. RHEL 4+*
®

4500
4,141 4,279 4,423
4000
3,803 3,963
3,478 3,635
3,325
3500
3,005 3,160
2,810
3000 2,645
2,539
2,339 2,361
2500

2000

1500

1000

500

0
DEC08 JAN09 FEB09 MAR09 APR09 MAY09 JUN09 JUL09 AUG09 SEP09 OCT09 NOV09 DEC09

February 2010
* Red Hat's inventory is unlisted
SLE 9 S L E 10 and 11 and unknown, whereas Novell ®

numbers are public and countable.
Recent claims from Red Hat
RHEL 4 RHEL 5 suggest that their catalog has 3,500+
applications, well below our count


Market Share (Novell vs. RedHat)

Market
Share
2006 Market 2007 Market 2008 Market
Share (%) Share (%) Share (%)
RedHat 73.8 69.5 64.7
Novell 17.6 24.5 29.8

Source: IDC August 2009 – Worldwide Linux Operating Environment 2009-2013 Forecast


Linux Revenue Growth
(Novell vs. RedHat)

Revenue
Growth
2006 Rev 2007 Rev 2008 Rev
Growth (%) Growth (%) Growth (%)
RedHat 40.5 22.3 14.8
Novell 62.7 80.7 50.3

Source: IDC August 2009 – Worldwide Linux Operating Environment 2009-2013 Forecast


SUSE Linux Enterprise
®

Only Linux Endorsed By


SUSE Linux Enterprise Service Pack 1

SLES 11 - Reliability

Reliability – Availability – Serviceability (RAS)
• Strong cooperation with IBM on providing a Linux OS
optimized for mission critical workloads on System z
• Large blade centers benefit from swap over NFS
capabilities to centralize swap space and improve
availability of the datacenter
• Cost savings by using built-in device-mapper MultiPath
I/O (MPIO) replacing expensive commercial solutions.
MPIO connects systems to a Storage Area Network
(SAN) via multiple routes – increases availability,
reliability and performance


SLES 11 SP1 - Reliability

• Support hardware RAS features bringing AMD64/Intel64
systems on par with traditional RISC systems
• Improved MPIO hardware-support expands multi-path
options, reliability and performance
• Increased redundancy through support of RAID 6, RAID 10
• Scheduler optimizations and support for new floating point
features improve performance and save costs
– More efficient scheduler, optimized defaults
– Extended hardware floating point capabilities
improve algorithm efficiency


SLES 11 - Scalability

The only enterprise Linux operating system that helps customers
• Manage several workloads within one Linux instance in a
lightweight manner by providing Kernel Resource Management
with Control Groups
• Scale with their hardware by supporting 512 CPUs on AMD64/
Intel64, 1024 CPUs on POWER, 4096 CPUs on Itanium
• Deploy huge amounts of data by supporting SGI's XFS for
filesystem and file sizes up to 8 EiB
• Improve efficiency by leveraging HW support for power saving
features due to the “tickles idle” Kernel, i.e. individual cores
can be sent to sleep completely


SLES 11 SP1 - Scalability

• Exploit most recent hardware by scaling up to 4096 CPUs
on AMD64/Intel64
• Compute huge amounts of data in memory, e.g. in data-
warehouse and ERP systems, by supporting 16TiB RAM
(and beyond) on certified hardware
• Improve inter-system connectivity and performance, reduce
latency by enabling 10G ethernet hardware and Infiniband via
the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED).
• Choose the right architecture for your workload:
– Intel Nehalem-EX CPUs and specifically the new AES instruction set
(AES-NI), to improve crypto operations
– All recent and upcoming AMD CPUs and Chipsets
– SGI Altix UV scales Intel64 to 4096 CPUs & 16TiB RAM
– IBM System z machines including extended floating point capabilities
– IBM POWER7
– Intel Itanium

SLES 11 - Systems Management

• YaST – unique, highly integrated local management tool
– Ease of use, effective learning curve

– Reduces training efforts

– Automation via AutoYaST datacenter mass deployments

• Fastest Open Source update stack (ZYPP)
– Reduce management time, effort and costs

– Improve reliability and availability by reducing downtimes

• Cost free Subscription Management Tool and Proxy
– Ensure security perimeters

– Manage and control compliance of subscriptions

• CIM instrumentation
– Remote administration standard:datacenter integration

SLES 11 SP1 - Systems Management

• New web-based systems management tool
– WebYaST delivers administrative functionality via remote
hosts, simplifying configuration
– Remote administration of software appliances now possible
• Update stack and CIM improvements
simplify management
– ZYPP now handles multiple installed kernels: improve reliability
– CIM infrastructure available by default – ease of installation
• Enhanced subscription and patch management tools
– New NCC interface allows pushing and reviewing of
applied updates, improving usability
• New maintenance model: more flexibility for
customers while retaining full control and stability

SLES 11 - Virtualization

• Virtualization host – technology leadership
– First Enterprise Linux OS to include and support
Xen hypervisor technology; first to ship KVM
– Manageability: leverage mixed-source for maximum
customer satisfaction and success
– Interoperability: full support for Windows guest
operating systems (Windows 2003, Windows 2008,...)
• Perfect guest
– supported on MSFT Hyper-V, VMware ESX, Citrix
XenServer, and SLES+Xen hypervisors
– flexibility and choice in the datacenter

• Unique cost efficiency – unlimited number of virtual
machines per physical server with one subscription

SLES 11 SP1 - Virtualization

• Virtualization host – more deployment options
– Updated Xen 4.0 improves I/O performance and flexibility;
Technologies: SR-IOV, OVF 1.0
– Improved Xen Scalability for higher consolidation ratio in the
datacenter and cost savings
– Support for KVM hypervisor helps customers exploit
virtualization capabilities of their recent Intel and AMD CPUs.
• Virtualization guest – integration and performance
– easier deployment due to perfect Interoperability with
all hypervisors
– Improved virtual guest performance
– Highlight: Open Source guest drivers for VMware ESX
and Microsoft Hyper-V (“Linux Integration Components”)


SLES 11 - Security & Certifications

• System architecture with security in mind: customers
are guided to install in a secure way:
– Minimize number of running daemons (services)
– Firewall installed in default pattern
• System is hardened by default, hardening can be
validated and tuned using YaST Security Center.
• Built-in audit capabilities: security analysis/compliance
• Security team/response team/code reviews
– Active participation of the Novell SUSE Team: improve overall
®

code quality and security
• Application confinement with AppArmor
– Prevent local and remote attacks
– Improves security also towards external networks

SLES 11 - Security & Certifications

• Help customers improve network security by:
– Using the enhanced authentication capabilities of NFSv4 (Kerberos)
– Installing Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) across architectures and
operating systems without additional software (using openVPN or IPSec)
• Check integrity of systems on file level with
Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE)
• Protect systems and data using encryption on several levels:
– “Full Disk” encryption (device mapper layer)
– Volume encryption (device mapper layer)
– Filesystem encryption (eCryptFS)
• Filesystem POSIX capabilities allow administrators to allow
access to files and running executables in a standardized way


SLES 11 SP1 - Security & Certifications

• Trusted computing enablement
– Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) provide a
cryptographically signed statement about the
state of the system when it has booted;
– Allow for a remote attestation that can be used for access
control and for “identity management” of systems
• Certifications
– CGL 4.0 / Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 registration:
System is validated for telecommunication environments
– IPv6 (refresh)


SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
®

Reliability Enhancements on INTEL64
• Detect physical memory and the specific DIMM
where errors happen – improve hardware service
and increase uptimes
• MCELOG (the userspace tool to process MCEs)
moves from a cronjob to a real service, improving
response time – improve reliability
• Predictive failure analysis
• Storage related
– Support for ISW/IMSM RAID arrays during installation, and
full integration into the Systems Management Stack
(YaST) – leverage latest HW technology and reduce costs


Open Source Collaboration

  Together, Intel and Novell work closely together to provide optimized
TTM code that enables key new Intel® Xeon® processor features on
Novell SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 11
–  Virtualization (VT-x, VT-d) and AES-NI
–  Introducing support for KVM and Multiplatform support in XEN
–  RAS: Corrected error reporting (CMCI), advanced mcelog, and MCA
recovery
  Provide best-in-class end-to-end capabilities for IT via strong
partnerships with HP, IBM, Dell, Microsoft and SAP
–  Key Benchmarking results with SGI SPECint and SPECfp
–  Application porting and proofs of concept
  Our co-development on multiple fronts
–  Drives down the cost of ownership and Speeds up return on investment
–  Standards-based open solutions for improved innovation and value,

Today’s IT Challenges

Application Performance
Maintain or improve performance SLAs as computational
demands increase

Scalability
Serve a growing user base, diverse workloads and
exploding data volumes without adding significant cost

High Availability
Computing solutions available 7x24 to a global user
base

Growing Demands
Requiring Wise Investments
2

Intel Xeon® 5600 Processor Series
32nm Technology with 2nd Generation High-k Process

NEW!
BUILDS on last year’s Xeon® 5500
platform leadership:

 50% more cores and cache, same power Intel® 5520
Chipset
Intel® Data Center
Manager
envelope!
Intel® Node Manager
 Up to 40% higher performance/watt Technology
PCI Express* 2.0

 New security features such as
Intel TXT and AES-NI
Intel® X25-E ICH 9/10 Intel® 82599 10GbE
Helps BREAKS DOWN remaining barriers for IT SSDs Controller
investment with better ROI:

Energy Efficiency Performance Virtualization

1 All
comparisons vs. previous generation Intel® Xeon® 7400 platforms. Memory capacity is for 4S platform (16DIMMs/socket with 16GB
DIMMs). See backup for performance configurations.
2 See backup for consolidation configurations. Comparisons vs. single core Xeon® MP processor 3.33/8MB

Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by
those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to
evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products,
visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations. All dates, product features and plans are subject to change without notice.

Source: Intel internally measured results 15 January 2010. Each bar represents the score or estimated score of best measured/estimated results on the geometric mean of internal benchmarks
(server-side Java*, integer throughput, floating-point throughput, ERP, and OLTP). Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes
only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/
or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual
performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on
performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, Go to: http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/benchmark_limitations.htm. Relative performance is calculated by assigning a
baseline value of 1.0 to one benchmark result, and then dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms,
and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.

12 month ROI claim estimated based on comparison between 4S Intel® Xeon® MP CPU 3.3Ghz (Single core w/ HT, 1MB L2, 8MB L3, Potomac) and 4S Intel® Xeon® X7560 (8 core, 2.26GHz) based servers. Calculation includes analysis based on
performance, power, cooling, electricity rates, operating system annual license costs and estimated server costs. This assumes 42U racks, $0.10 per kWh, cooling costs are 2x the server power consumption costs, operating system license cost of
$900/year per server, per server cost of $36,000 based on estimated list prices, and estimated server utilization rates. All dollar figures are approximate. SPECint_rate_base2006* performance and power results are measured for X7560 and Xeon
3.3GHz based servers. Platform power was measured during the steady state window of the benchmark run and at idle. Performance gain compared to baseline was 20x.Baseline platform (measured score of 33.8): Intel server with four MP Intel®
Xeon® processor 3.33Ghz (single core w/HT, 1MB L2, 8MB L3), 16GB memory (8x2GB DDR2-400), 2 hard drives, 1 power supply, using Redhat EL 5.3 x86_64 operating system New platform (measured score of 705): Intel internal reference server
with four Intel® Xeon® Processor X7560 (24M Cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, Intel Turbo Boost Technology), 256GB memory (64x 4GB QR DDR3-1333), 1 hard drive, 2 power supplies, using SuSE*
LINUX 11, cpu2006.1.1.ic11.1.linux64.binaries.nov242009.tar.bz2 binaries. Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by
those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering
purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations.

Summary
  Intel offers a portfolio of platforms for high-end computing
workloads
  The Xeon® 7500 and Itanium® 9300 platforms include significant
advancements in performance, scalability, and RAS
  Both platforms have broad support for high-end server designs
from multiple OEMs as well as the software community

  Novell and Intel are working together to provide seamless, TTM
feature support for mission critical capabilities

Please contact your Intel and Novell Sales Representatives to
learn more about our joint solution

For additional online information, visit:
www.novell.com/intel
www.intel.com/opensource - Ecosystem then Novell
8 Intel® server processors codename Nehalem-EX

Intel® Xeon® processor 7500/6500: OVER 20 NEW RAS
Features

•  Demand and Patrol scrubbing •  Mirrored Memory Board Hot Add
/Remove
•  Fail Over from Single DRAM •  PCI-E Hot Plug
Device Failure (SDDC) •  Failed DIMM Isolation
•  MCA-recovery •  Physical Memory Board Hot
•  Intel® SMI Packet Retry Add/remove
•  Intel QPI Packet Retry •  Physical CPU Hot Add &
Remove**
•  Intel QPI Protocol •  Physical IOH Hot Add**
Protection via CRC (8bit •  Direct Connect Flash
or 16bit rolling) •  Dynamic/OS Assisted
•  Data Poisoning/ and Viral Memory Migration*
Mode •  Dynamic/OS Memory On
•  On-Die Error Protection -lining (capacity change)*
•  Address Parity via •  Dynamic/OS CPU On-lining
Memory Lockstep (capacity change)*
Operation •  Dynamic/OS IOH On-lining
(capacity change)*

See backup for RAS feature descriptions

SUSE Linux Enterprise*
Key Virtualization Features
•  Support for Intel® Virtualization Technology
•  Ultimate Performance
SUSE Linux
•  Network and block device hot plugging Enterprise
•  Virtual Machine Management and Orchestration Tools
•  Scalability, Live Migration
•  UNIX to Linux
•  High Availability Migration
•  Introducing support for KVM
•  Mission-Critical
•  Multiplatform support in XEN
Computing
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10 and 11
– Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 •  Virtual Appliances
– NetWare 6.5
•  Linux/Windows
– Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008
– Windows XP, Vista
Interoperability
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 •  Virtualization
•  Host Limits with SLE11-SP1:
– 255 CPU threads
•  Desktop Linux
– 1 TB RAM
•  Guest Limits with SLE11-SP1:
– 32 CPU threads
– 256 GB RAM
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

SUSE Linux Enterprise*
Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series Platform
Optimized OS
•  Support built into Linux for (No Novell enablement needed)‫‏‬
SUSE Linux
–  Intelligent Performance: 8-core support, 44-bit memory Enterprise
addressability
–  Energy Efficiency: Multicore Power Management, DBS •  UNIX to Linux
Migration
•  SLE 10 SP3
–  Flexible Virtualization: VT-x support; FlexPriority, VT-d •  Mission-Critical
Computing
•  SLE 11
Additions to the above: •  Virtual Appliances
–  Intelligent Performance: SSE 4.2, I/OAT3, NUMA, UEFI 2.0,
DMRAID 0, 1, 5, Turbo
–  Flexible Virtualization: VT-x: EPT, VPID, Flex Migration; VT-d
•  Linux/Windows
–  igb driver update required Interoperability
–  Scalability Expandable: x2APIC, 255 cores, 1 TB RAM
•  Virtualization
•  SLE 11 SP1
–  MDRAID 0, 1, 5 •  Desktop Linux
–  AES (gcc in the SDK)‫‏‬
–  Always running APIC timer
–  VT: real mode EPT (Xen and KVM), Pause Loop Exiting
(Xen)‫‏‬
–  RAS: Corrected error reporting (CMCI), advanced mcelog,
MCA recovery

Server Deployment Paths

• Server (physical)
• Virtual Host
• Perfect Guest
• Appliance
– minimal packaging
– created using imaging tools


Keeping the Momentum
SUSE Studio
SUSE Studio “The 10 SUSE Studio
“a product of Coolest Open- 2010 Codie
the year” Source
eWeek
.
Award Finalist
Products Of .

2009” ChannelWeb

54,280 Registered users are using SUSE Studio Online

250,364 Appliances have been built

4,405 ISVs are using SUSE Studio Online


The SUSE Appliance Toolkit ®

+ Streamline the OS

+ Simplify Deployments

+ Simplify Maintenance

Build The SUSE Appliance Toolkit is a collection
of tools designed to improve the efficiency of
Manage building, managing and maintaining
Maintain software appliances.


The SUSE Appliance Toolkit ®

Components

SUSE Studio Onsite

WebYaST

SUSE Lifecycle
Build
Management Server Manage
Maintain

SUSE Studio Onsite ®

Stand-alone version of SUSE Studio behind your firewall

Build appliances based on: SUSE Studio
SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS 2010 Codie
Award Finalist
SUSE Linux Enterprise or
openSUSE SUSE Studio
“a product of
Supported formats: the year”
.

eWeek
USB Stick/ hard disk image
Live CD (.iso)‫‏‬
SUSE Studio
VMware/Virtual Box (.vmdk)‫‏‬ “The 10 Coolest
Xen Virtual Machine Open-Source
Products Of
Soon: Hyper-V, OVF, EC2 2009” ChannelWeb

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SUSE Studio Onsite Demo


Comprehensive Security Capabilities

No operating system is
invulnerable - not even Fact:
Linux...But SUSE Linux
®

offers the most
Enterprise Server offers: comprehensive security
capabilities for Linux
• Built-in application security
• Integrated VPN, firewall and anti-virus Result:
protection Ensure data integrity
• Certificate management
while reducing
emergency patching
• Proactive security features across Linux systems
• Easiest security configuration and
management


AppArmor

AppArmor is an open source application
security tool that helps protect Linux
systems from unknown security flaws

Allow programs
Deploy security to do only what
Designed for
policy in hours they are supposed
ease of use
not days to do and
nothing else

AppArmor 2.0 integrated with SLES/SLED for “out of the box” protection
AppArmor support included with SUSE Linux Enterprise support contracts
®

Consulting available to assist customer with deployment
and custom policy development if needed

Novell Privileged User Manager
®

• Support compliance with internal
policies and external regulations
• Control user access to root
privileges
• Audit all user activity with 100%
keystroke logging
• Analyze potential threats based
on policy-based smart risk ratings
• Simplify audit reporting with the
most relevant, context-based
information
• Enhance user experience with
automation and remote logging
40 © Novell Inc. All rights reserved

Novell Identity and Security Solutions
®

Identity and Access Security Compliance
Management Management Management
User Provisioning Security Monitoring Compliance Assurance
and Management and Remediation
Enterprise Compliance
Roles Management Log Management Automation for SAP

Simplified Secure Cloud Security Privileged User
Access Management


Novell Privileged User Manager
®

3-Step Approach to Audit-Ready UNIX/Linux Systems

Step • Super user privilege management
1 • Scalable with automated centralized policy

Step • 100% privileged user keystroke recording
2 • Smart grading of activity risk level

Step • Proactive compliance management with
3 real-time control and alerting
• Auditing the auditor


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Privileged User
Management Demo


SLES Management Options
• YaST / AutoYaST / WebYaST
• SUSE Lifecycle Management Server
• Subscription Management Tool
• Novell Support Link
• ZENworks Linux Management ®

– Push Applications and Data, Policy-Driven Configuration,
Inventory, Reporting, Remote Control, Web-based Admin
• Use existing tools
– Create images with SUSE Studio that integrate with your
®

existing management environment by baking the
management client into the build


YaST & AutoYaST
• YaST installation and configuration management framework
– Unified and consistent single interface to all systems management tasks via
modules
Prepare Install Configure
– Configure every aspect of the server
Pre-configure Install
Partition
packages
– Enhanced YaST Partitioner
Create
– CIM Standard adopted Create profile
filesystem
X11

• AutoYaST auto-installation Get profile
Install
Packages
System
variables

– A tool for installing SUSE Linux
®
Parse profile Bootloader SuSEconfig
Enterprise on systems with as much
(or little) automation as you want Convert Data Hardware

– Works in networked and
Network
non-networked environments
– Very flexible, very scalable, Misc. configs
easy to use

Quickly install, configure, and manage systems a rapidly set up
popular services, both locally and remotely

WebYaST
Overview
WebYaST is a framework and a collection of modules
providing a stylish, easy-to-use, and low-cost
approach to packaging an Appliance with the minimal
configuration interface necessary for its set up.

Y

WebYaST
Modules
Initial configuration wizard
Time, Timezone, NTP
Status, soft-shutdown, reboot
Monitoring (configurable)
Update
Network
License/EULA and Registration
Users
Service start/stop/status
Log visualization Y

SUSE Lifecycle Management Server
®

• Unified update mechanism, which federates updates
for all components of a software appliance
• Authentication, entitlement and access control to
distribute updates
• Repository management, which stages repository
support for quality assurance
• Management of essential customer data and interface
to CRM systems
• Rollback to any previous version for system restoration
or reproduction


Subscription Management Tool

SMT is a proxy and auditing tool that mirrors the Novell ®

Customer Center and tightly integrates with it. It allows you to
accurately register and manage an entire SUSE Linux ®

Enterprise deployment, guaranteeing the subscription
compliance and secure IT process flow organizations require.

Customer's Network

Novell
Customer
SMT Center


Novell Support Link

• Provides SUSE Linux Enterprise platform-integrated way to
®

submit support requests to Novell Technical Services SM

• Interface is a Yast module, which provides access to a
simple wizard enabling quick reporting of an incident
• supportconfig used underneath
• Customer can review any and all data before submitting,
and discard any bit considered sensitive
• Enables diagnostics performed by the Novell Support
Advisor
• Organizations can leverage infrastructure for internal or
OEM use

Accelerate support communications, get faster issue resolution

ZENworks Linux Management
Manage the complete lifecycle of devices
Asset Acquisition Identity

Image (re-image)

Configuration and
Lockdown

Manage
Profiles
Remote Support

Install &
Remove Apps

Asset Retirement Inventory & Reporting

ZENworks Linux Management
Redefining Linux Management

ZENworks 7 Linux Management :
Full Stack Linux lifecycle management
Policy Driven Linux OS imaging and deployment
Application deployment and management
Secure Remote Control
Inventory and reporting
Unique Policy Driven configuration & lockdown.
All web-based management built on the next-
generation ZENworks Architecture
Cross-distribution support – Novell, SUSE, Red Hat
Innovative web-based console keeps each
administrator’s most common tasks a single click away.

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ZENworks Linux
Management Demo


Availability & Disaster Recovery

SLES - High Availability Extension

• An affordable, integrated suite of robust open source
clustering technologies that you can use to implement
highly available physical and virtual Linux services.
• Used with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, it helps you
maintain business continuity, protect your data, and
reduce unplanned downtime for your mission critical
Linux workloads.
• Benefits
– Cost effectively meet your service-level agreements
– Ensure continuous access to your mission-critical systems and data
– Maintain data integrity
– Increase resource utilization


SLES 11 - Key HA Capabilities

• Service Availability 24/7
– Policy driven clustering
> OpenAIS messaging and membership layer
> Pacemaker cluster resource manager

• Sharing and Scaling Data-access by Multiple Nodes
– OCFS2 Clusterfile system
– Clustered logical volume manager
• Disaster Tolerance
– Continuous data replication via IP
– Distributed replicated block device
• Scale Network Services
– IP load-balancing
• User-friendly Tools
– Graphical user interface
– Unified command line interface


SLES 11 SP1 - Key HA Capabilities

• Storage Based Quorum
– Enabling the use of a storage device as a quorum instance to match
traditional Unix setups and to prevent split brain scenarios
• Integrated Samba Clustering
– Integration of Samba with OCFS2 for higher throughput and scale out of
SMB access
• Metro-Area Clusters
– Supporting clustering between different data center locations
• Multilevel Administration Rights
– More fine-grained control of cluster operation and administration
• Enhance Data Replication
– Improved DRBD capabilities
• DR Framework
– A tool set (ReaR) for node recovery


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High Availability Demo


PlateSpin Migrate & Protect

Technology that automates the streaming workloads across
infrastructures.
• Decouple workload from host infrastructure
• Live peer-to-peer workload movement
• Deploy or recover workload from archives and backups
Physical
• Protect and recover workloads

Blade

Virtual

Image
Workload decoupled from hardware

Consolidated Recovery
Leveraging Virtual Infrastructure for Protection of Physical servers

Physical production servers

Solution
• Replication of workload into an off-line
virtual machine
• One click failover
• One click test restore
• Flexible failback

Benefits
• Drastically reduce TCO and RTO while
Virtual Recovery Hosts achieving whole workload protection
• Improving RPO through incremental
synchronization
• Simplify testing with bootable backups

Physical production servers


PlateSpin Forge

World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with embedded virtualization

Protects up to 25 workloads out of the box

Plug In and Protect DR Solution for : PlateSpin Forge Includes:
• Medium enterprises • Storage
• Branch or field use for large enterprises • Replication Software
• Hosted recovery • Remote Management Interface
• Hypervisor


Consolidate Recovery

25 to 1 Whole Workload No Redundant
Recovery Replication Infrastructure
Environment Costs

File based replication
PlateSpin Forge
(Remote Site)

Internal Web Server

Email Server
Block Based replication


Simplify Testing

Rapidly Test Testing Logged For Isolated Testing of
Recovery Reporting and Recovery
Workloads Compliance Workloads

PlateSpin Forge
(Remote Site)

Internal Web Server

Email Server


Rapid Failover and Flexible Failback

Recovery Workload Failback to Failback with Sync
Runs on PlateSpin Dissimilar To Repaired
Forge Hardware Hardware

PlateSpin Forge
(Remote Site)

Internal Web Server

Repaired Email Server
New Web Server


Gain Visibility

Demonstrate Policy Actionable Failure
Compliance Alerts Notification

PlateSpin Forge
(Remote Site)

Internal Web Server

Smart
Phone
Email Server



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both physical and virtual—from the desktop to the data center


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