SUSE Linux Enterprise: Technology Roadmap

SUSE Linux Enterprise ® Technology Road Map Matthias G. Eckermann Dr. Gerald Pfeifer Senior Product Manager Director Product Management SUSE Linux Enterprise gp@novell.com mge@novell.com

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Agenda SUSE Linux Enterprise – Value proposition – Products and life-cycles Today – Tomorrow – Future SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension Subscription Management Tool Vendor and Architecture Specific Information Appendix ۲ © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise ® Product Lines and Products Server Product Line Virtualization Product Line • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z Appliance Product Line • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real • SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS Time Extension (just enough operating system) • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension • SUSE Studio Online • SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono • SUSE Appliance Toolkit Extension • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point Specialized Support Offers of Service • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Subscription with expanded support (for Desktop Product Line Red Hat migrations) • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support for SAP Applications 4 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Life-cycle

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 6 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Current Platform Life-cycle 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Notes CR: SLE 9 SP4 (2007) EOGS: Q3 2011 EOSS: Q3 2014 SLE 9 CR: SLE 10 SP3 (2009) EOGS: Q3 2013 EOSS: Q3 2016 SLE10 x SP3 x SP4 CR: SLE 11 GA (2009) EOGS: Q2 2016 EOSS: Q2 2019 SLE 11 GA x SP1 x SP2 SP3x GA: 2H 2013 SLE 12 GAx Note: Milestones in future years are planned dates, and subject to change 7 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Software Certifications

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 9 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Development Process

The SUSE Build Service* Advantage ® Open Source Package Build Service Quality Testing Enterprise- Projects Selection and Class Integration Softw are Intel/AMD x86 Feature Test AMD/Intel x86_64 Manual Regression SUSE Linux Itanium Enterprise Automated Regression POWER Novell ® System z System Test Contribution • Reduces production problems • Consolidates IT skills across disparate systems • Delivers critical updates in hours – not days or weeks * SUSE Build Service is the internal entity of the openSUSE BuildService infrastructure ® 11 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise ® Common Code Base SUSE Linux Enterprise platform JeOS & SLES SLED SLE SDK SLE HA Appliances Binary Code Base Common (Open Source) Code Base • Foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise products • Fully supported core system: L3 support commitment • Architectures: Intel/AMD 32-bit, AMD64/Intel 64, Itanium, POWER, System z 12 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ®

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Best Choice for Your Business (1) • Highly reliable, scalable and secure enterprise-class operating system • Built to power mission-critical workloads in physical and virtual environments • Affordable, interoperable and manageable open source foundation • Cost effectively helps – Deliver high-performance, mission-critical business services – Enable secure network infrastructure – Provide essential Web infrastructure – Simplify management of heterogeneous IT infrastructure 14 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Best Choice for Your Business (2) • Only enterprise Linux recommended by Microsoft and SAP, designed for Interoperability – Supports open standard CIM interfaces and can be managed by any management solution utilizing CIM • Perfect guest for virtual computing – Optimized to run as a high performance guest on leading hypervisors – Supports an unlimited number of virtual machines per physical system with a single subscription • Modular, general purpose operating system – Runs on five processor architectures – Optional extensions that provide advanced capabilities • Backed by award-winning technical services from Novell ® 15 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Today – Tomorrow – Future

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Agenda SUSE Linux Enterprise Today – Tomorrow – Future – Scalability – Virtualization – Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) – Systems management – Interoperability – Security and certifications SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension Subscription Management Tool Vendor and Architecture Specific Information Appendix 17 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Scalability Today 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 18 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 ® Scalability Tomorrow • 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 19 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Scalability Future • Container Technology (based on lxc) extends Kernel Resource Management and enables you to create lightweight virtualization- like separations for better load management and higher security (soft partitioning) • With the increasing number of cores per system, improvements in power management and scheduling are key to control costs in physical and virtualized environments • Local storage: maintain existing capabilities (e.g. XFS) and introduce btrfs as a supported solution, to improve manageability and give customers a maximum of flexibility • Expand network filesystem capabilities (NFSv4.x/pNFS), to improve performance, reliability and security of filesystems across datacenter networks 20 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Virtualization Today • 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 21 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 ® Virtualization Tomorrow • 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”) 22 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Virtualization Future • Host and guest – Expand I/O virtualization capabilities to build true dynamic datacenters – Improve availability by deeper integration of virtualization technology with SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability • Virtualization host – Improve interoperability and establish virtual machine migration between Xen and KVM to give customers full choice and smooth migration paths – KVM hypervisor leverages power saving capabilities and scalability improvements of the Linux Kernel • Perfect guest – Automated recognition of hypervisor and tuning 23 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Virtualization, Appliances and Beyond SUSE Linux Enterprise Sever • Drives SUSE Studio – Fast and simple creation and testing of SLES based appliances – Build an appliance in many formats, incl. virtual appliances for KVM, Xen, VMware, Hyper-V, OVF and Amazon EC2 – Extensive use of virtualization (build, test drive) internally • Is key to the SUSE Appliance Program – The easiest way for partners and enterprise to build, test, get to market, and manage virtual and software appliances – Platform, tools to build, manage and update appliances • Is a foundation for Intelligent Workload Management – Workloads as appliances, deployed virtualized or in the cloud – Virtualization management tools, Platespin Orchestrate ® 24 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Reliability Today 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 25 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 ® Reliability Tomorrow • 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 26 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Reliability Future • Improve support for hardware based RAS capabilities on all architectures, specifically – Intel “SandyBridge” – IBM System z • Support for the btrfs filesystem – Reduce cost of storage management by providing an integration of logical volume management and filesystem – Checksums on data and metadata ensure data integrity • Enable customers to run SLES systems “uninterrupted” by – Snapshot/rollback for full system (based on btrfs) – Kernel patching without reboot (using ksplice) – Migrating processes to more reliable memory (“Memory migration”) 27 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Systems Management Today • 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 28 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 ® Systems Management Tomorrow • 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 29 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ® Systems Management Future • Enable customers to rollback changes to the system, which have been unwanted (administrator error) or did show unwanted results or side effects – Snaphot-Rollback for package updates with ZYPP and btrfs • Improve WebYaST to allow more configuration options for better remote management and cloud integration • Automation of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 migration reduces administration cost and downtime • Strengthen usability of local administration tools (YaST) once more and enable it for the SMB market 30 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11/Service Pack 1 ® Interoperability Today and Tomorrow • Improved interoperability with next-generation network filesystem – NFS v4.1 extends support for file system ACLs and interoperability to UNIX systems such as Solaris – IPv6 support in NFS simplifies address assignment and facilitates wide-area deployments • Integration with new platforms like Windows 7 – Support for Windows 7 domain logon with Samba 3.4 – Support for Windows 7 virtual guests • Linux Standards Base 4.0 certification – Interoperability with other Linux distributions 31 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Security and Certifications Today • 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 32 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Security and Certifications Today • 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 33 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11/Service Pack 1 ® Security and Certifications Tomorrow • 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) 34 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Security and Certifications Future • Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) – Enhances Trusted Computing with processor-based separation functions on a page-level in memory – Helps to keep systems in consistent and proven (“measured”) states – Works in virtual environments and cloud – Development with Intel • Common criteria certification (tentative) 35 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise ® High Availability Extension

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension ® Value Proposition and Benefits • 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 37 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 ® Key Capabilities Today • 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 38 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 Service Pack 1 ® Key capabilities Tomorrow • 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 39 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension ® Key capabilities Future • Usability and Management – Full web GUI – Improved access control • Ease of Use – Guided and automated configuration – Prepackages applications – Preloaded clusters • Clusters Functionality – Wide area clusters – Improved data replication – Unix cluster stack leadership • Backup and Disaster Recovery – Backup integration – DR automation 40 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension ® HA Stack from 10 to 11 SLES 10 SLE HA 11 SLE HA 11 SP1 OCFS2 Metro-Area Heartbeat general FS Cluster Storage Quorum DRBD 0.7 Unified CLI Coverage Samba Yast2-HB Pacemaker Cluster Enhanced OCFS2 / EVMS2 openAIS Data Replication Cluster Config HA GUI Synchronization Yast2-DRBD Node Recovery Yast2-Multipath Web GUI Added in Added in Part of SLES 10 SLE HA 11 SLE HA 11 SP1 41 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension ® Competitive Landscape HP IBM Veritas MSFT Steeleye RHAT Novell Novell Novell HP-SG HACMP VCS Cluster Lifekeeper Ad. Plat. SLES10 SLE HA 11 SLE HA 11 SP1 Upper Node Limit ↔ ↓ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↑ ↔ ↔ ↑ Network Load- Balancing ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↑ System Recovery ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↑ Disk Mirroring ↔ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↑ ↔ ↑ ↑ Platform Support ↔ ↓ ↑ ↓ ↑ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ HW Support ↔ ↓ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ Storage Support ↔ ↓ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ISV Support ↔ ↓ ↑ ↑ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↔ Setup, Installation and ↔ ↔ ↑ ↑ ↔ ↔ ↓ ↔ ↑ Configuration GUI ↔ ↔ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↔ ↓ ↔ ↑ Command line ↑ ↔ ↑ ↓ ↔ ↔ ↔ ↑ ↑ 42 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Next Steps Learn more at: Brainshare Sessions ELS302, ELS307 ® Visit IT Central Demo B13 www.novell.com/products/highavailability Download Buy a evaluation copy subscription now 43 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Subscription Management Tool

Novell Customer Center ® • The Novell customer center remains at the center of relationships Novell has with its subscription customers – Review, download of released updates – Subscription, renewal of entitlements – Access to knowledge base – Monitoring of your deployment – Repositories for maintenance and install use • Additionally, in cooperation with the Subscription Management Tool (SMT) – Ability to automatically assign registration codes 45 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Subscription Management Tool Overview 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 46 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Next Steps Learn more at: Brainshare Session ELS203 ® Visit IT Central Demo B21 www.novell.com/linux/smt/ Download at Visit Novell ® download.novell.com Customer Center now 47 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Vendor and Architecture Specific Information

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 49 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 ® SLES and AMD Opteron CPUs • SUSE Linux Enterprise has been the first Operating System to support Opteron 64bit CPUs – Support for all AMD CPUs in SLES 11 SP 1, including – Barcelona, Shanghai, Istanbul, (upcoming) Magny-Cours topology • Green IT – Help managing power consumption (GreenIT) by supporting deep sleep states (APIC optimizations) • Improve performance of Xen virtualization hosts, specifically in terms of memory management: – 1GB page support – IOMMU support • Help customer to optimize their home-built applications – Profiling extensions – GCC 4.5 available on the SDK 50 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for System z ® New Features in Version 11 • Dynamic add/remove of CPU and memory: Resources of a Linux guest under z/VM can be adjusted while running. A pool of CPUs are dynamically given to a Linux guest and used as needed • Vertical CPU management: Helps get the most performance out of System z10 servers by being aware of the server's NUMA characteristics • Linux CPU Node Affinity: Improves performance by scheduling processes to the optimal node where the CPU is associated, exploiting the new System z10 CPU node topology • Enhanced HiperSocket support: Additional Layer 2 support for IPV4 and support for IPV6 51 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. = SLES unique feature

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for System z ® New Features in Version 11 (continued) • Higher performance analysis in the disk subsystem: Gives performance analysts the same type of view into SCSI over Fibre Channel Protocol that they have with mainframe Direct Access Storage Devices (DASD) • Large page support: enables better performance with large memory footprints like in Java or database workloads by exploiting new System z10 large memory pages (1MB) • Cross architecture debugging: System z core dumps can be analyzed on x86 systems, negating the need for a duplicate System z server 52 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. = SLES unique feature

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 ® Scalability on IBM POWER7 POWER 7 optimization in SLES 11 and SLES 11 SP 1 • HPC use cases • Up to 1024 CPUs • Special functionality in Service Pack 1: – POWER7 CPU-Tuned Libraries – Performance Monitor Counter (PerfMon) – backport POWER7 VSX support into GCC 4.3 on SLES • SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 is the fastest OS on POWER 7 according SPEC(int) and SPEC(fp); see: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/750/perfdata.html 53 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

UNIX Leadership

SUSE Linux Enterprise ® UNIX Leadership Today and Tomorrow Availability on the architecture of your choice The most scalable and high performing Linux operating system – reliable and secure Interoperability with UNIX- and Windows-Systems Reference platform for enterprise applications Built-in virtualization capabilities Built-in systems management – provides IT with more choices and greater flexibility 55 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise ® UNIX Leadership Future Improve Reliability – Availability – Serviceability, specifically on the cost-effective AMD64/Intel64 architecture Validate already existing high level of security with new and extended certifications Extend open source clustering capabilities 56 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Appendix

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ® Features – Cheat Sheet Key Features in SLES 11 Planned for SLES 11 SP1 Fast update stack Improvements to update stack and YaST and AutoYaST management infrastructure Integrated Systems NCC and SMT Enhanced subscription and patch Management CIM instrumentation management tools Support Link and Support Advisor Web based systems management tools Swap over NFS Scheduler optimizations and support for Reliability, new floating point features Control groups, CPUset Availability, and Serviceability Asynchronous and multipath I/O Support for new HW RAS features CGL 4.0 registration Integrated Xen hypervisor Updated Xen hypervisor Cross Platform Optimized for Xen, VMware ESX and KVM support Virtualization MSFT Hyper-V OVF 1.0 support Supports up to 4096 cores on Itanium; up to 1024 on POWER; up to 512 on x86_64. Improved processor, memory and storage Scalability and 64 TiB RAM scalability: up to 4096 cores on x86_64; up Flexibility to 1024 cores on POWER Runs on 5 processor architectures Identity and directory federation Next generation network filesystem Interoperability with Cross platform systems management Integration with Windows 7 domains other Platforms LSB 4.0 certification Green IT Tickless idle, granular power profiles Improved HW exploitation Comprehensive Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support Support for new crypto features Security AppArmor application security Advanced IPv6 and OFED Updated OFED driver Networking FCoE 58 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 ® Kernel Capabilities SLE 11 SP 1 (2.6.32) x86 ia64 x86_64 s390x ppc64 CPU bits 32 64 64 64 64 max. # logical CPUs 32 up to 4096 up to 4096 64 up to 1024 max. RAM 64/ 1 PiB/ 64 TiB/ 4 TiB/ 1 PiB/ (theoretical/practical) 16 GiB 8+ TiB 16TiB 256 GiB 512 GiB max. user-/ 3/1 GiB 2 EiB/φ 128 TiB/ φ/φ 2 TiB/ kernelspace 128 TiB 2 EiB max. swap space up to 31 * 64 GB max. #processes 1048576 max. #threads per tested with more than 120000; maximum limit depends on memory process and other parameters max. size per block up to 16 TiB and up to 8 EiB on all 64-bit architectures device Supported on certified hardware only 59 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Service Pack 1 ® Filesystems Feature Ext 3 reiserfs XFS OCFS 2 btrfs Data/Metadata Journaling •/• ○/• ○/• ○/• N/A [3] Journal internal/external •/• •/• •/• •/○ N/A Offline extend/shrink •/• •/• ○/○ •/○ •/• Online extend/shrink •/○ •/○ •/○ •/○ •/• Inode-Allocation-Map table u. B*-tree B+-tree table B-tree Sparse Files • • • • • Tail Packing ○ • ○ ○ • Defrag ○ ○ • ○ • ExtAttr / ACLs •/• •/• •/• •/• •/• Quotas • • • • • Dump/Restore • ○ • ○ ○ Blocksize default 4KiB max. Filesystemsize [1] 16 TiB 16 TiB 8 EiB 16 TiB 16 EiB max. Filesize [1] 2 TiB 1 EiB 8 EiB 1 EiB 16 EiB Support Status SLES SLES SLES SLE HA Technology Preview SUSE® Linux Enterpris e was the firs t enterpris e Linux dis tribution to s upport journaling files ys tems and logical volume managers back in 2000. Today, we have cus tomers running XFS and Reis erFS with more than 8TiB in one files ys tem, and the SUSE Linux Enterpris e engineering team is us ing our 3 major Linux journaling files ys tems for all their s ervers . We are excited to add the OCFS2 clus ter files ys tem to the range of s upported files ys tems in SUSE Linux Enterpris e. For large-s cale files ys tems , for example for file s erving (e.g., with with Samba, NFS, etc.), we recommend us ing XFS. (In this table "+" means "available/s upported"; "-" is "uns upported") [1] The maximum file siz e above can be larger than the f ilesystem's actual siz e due to usage of sparse blocks. I t should also be noted that unless a f ilesystem comes with large file support (LFS), the maximum file siz e on a 32-bit system is 2 GB (231 bytes). Currently all of our standard f ilesystems (including ext3 and ReiserFS ) have LFS, which gives a maximum file siz e of 263 bytes in theory. The numbers given in the above tables assume that the filesystem are using 4 KiB block siz e. When s using dif f erent block siz es, the results are diff erent, but 4 KiB ref lects the most common standard. [2] In this document: 1024 Bytes = 1 KiB; 1024 KiB = 1 MiB; 1024 MiB = 1 GiB; 1024 GiB = 1 TiB; 1024 TiB = 1 PiB; 1024 PiB = 1 EiB (s ee als o http://phys ics .nis t.gov/cuu/Units /binary.html ) [3] Btrfs is a copy-on-write l oggi ng-styl e fil e system , so rather than needing to j ournal changes before wri ti ng them i n-pl ace, i t writes them i n a new l ocation, and then links i t i n. Until the last write, the new changes are not “com m i tted.” [4] Btrfs quotas wi l l operate di fferentl y than tradi ti onal quotas. The quotas wi ll be per -subvol um e r ather than operati ng on the enti re fil esystem at the user/group l evel. They can be m ade functi onal l y equivalent by creati ng a subvol um e per- user or group. 60 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

SUSE Linux Enterprise ® Documentation and Release Notes • Product Pages – http://www.novell.com/products/server/ – http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/ – http://www.novell.com/products/highavailability/ – http://www.novell.com/products/mono/ • Unix to Linux Migration – http://www.novell.com/linux/unixtolinux/ • Documentation – http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse.html • Product Life-cycle – http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/linux.html • Release Notes – http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/ 61 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

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