Suse Linux Enterprise Server, 1Y Client Access License (CAL) 1 year(s)

Compete more effectively through improved uptime, better efficiency and accelerated innovation using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, a versatile server operating system for deploying highly available enterprise-class IT services in mixed IT environments with best-of-breed performance and reduced risk. Increase Uptime Full System Rollback Gain better resiliency. Full System Rollback allows you to take snapshots of the system, including the kernel files, and roll back. System administrators can boot from a snapshot to improve data safety. Exploiting Hardware RAS Enhance your system reliability and reduce service costs. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 includes exclusive processes to exploit the RAS features of your hardware platform. SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching Update security patches without rebooting machines and without waiting for your next service window. Extensions for Clustering Achieve higher service availability by clustering servers together and removing single points of failure. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension offers an industry-leading, mature high availability solution. Further enhance your business continuity by connecting data centers across unlimited distances with Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension. Full support for KIWI With one configuration, you can use KIWI t o create OS images for physical deployments (DVD, USB) as well as provision it into virtual hypervisor environments (Xen, KVM, VMware, HyperV), container frameworks (Linux Containers, Docker) and public and private clouds. Improve operational efficiency New YaST YaST gives you the capability to customize your system quickly during and after the installation. YaST is now written in Ruby so it's open and more easily customized. New Installer Our new installer saves time with faster installation and fewer reboots in the workflow. Its Ruby scripts allow partners to embed SUSE Linux Enterprise Server into their solutions more smoothly. Wicked Wicked makes it easy to manage ever-more-complicated network configurations such as VLAN, virtualization, bridging, bonding, and IPv6. Wicked allows you to import existing configuration files from older Linux operating system versions. SUSE Customer Center (SCC) SCC is the new portal to centrally manage your SUSE subscriptions, access software updates and contact SUSE Customer Support. The user-friendly interface gives you a central view of all your SUSE subscriptions, allowing you to easily find the information you need. The Subscription Management Tool (SMT) SMT helps large organizations centrally receive patches and updates for their SUSE Linux Enterprise software. It provides our customers a way to easily migrate and gain much simpler and faster access to updates and patches. Internet Protocol version 6 Specification (IPv6) The successor to IPv4 provides far more address space for device connection. With IPv6 support, you can connect to next-generation network equipment. Flexible Deployment Options You can deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 anywhere in physical, virtual and cloud environments, or on different hardware architectures like Intel 64, IBM System z and IBM POWER. It's also optimized for various hypervisors like Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Xen and KVM. Security Standards Compliance SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is successfully certified after Common Criteria Certification at EAL4+. In addition multiple cryptography security modules are validated to fulfill the requirements of FIPS 140-2 at Level 1 and Level 2. Those modules are OpenSSL, OpenSSH API, Mozilla NSS (Level 2) and libgcrypt. For details see our security certification and features page. Samba 4 Samba allows you to easily and securely interoperate in the Microsoft Windows environment. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 includes support for the latest version of Samba 4, which provides better integration with Windows Active Directory Domains. VMware Tools Integration VMware drivers and tools (open-vm-tools) are now fully supported and integrated into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 in an all-in-one package with their performance fine-tuned. Accelerate Innovation Certified Applications SUSE Linux Enterprise Server supports a wide variety of third-party ISV applications. For the complete list of certified software applications for SUSE Linux Enterprise (all versions), please visit www.suse.com/susePSC/home. Certified Hardware Most leading hardware vendors support our Linux server OS, so you can save money by using your existing physical servers or low-cost commodity hardware. SUSE SolidDriver Program The SUSE SolidDriver program accelerates the adoption of new technologies by removing complexities and risks associated with deploying kernel drivers. It gives customers an easy way to identify fully compatible and supported software code. What's New in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Docker Docker is an open source technology that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers. It provides an additional layer of abstraction and automation of OS-level virtualization on Linux. Docker and Linux Containers are great ways to build, deploy and manage applications. Docker is supported in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for your production environments. Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server JeOS is a minimized form factor of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. JeOS is delivered as minimized, ready-to-run virtual images to make the virtualization deployment more efficient. JeOS is also delivered as a KIWI template for customers and partners to use to start golden images. Network Teaming Network Teaming is a technology that applies to various methods of combining multiple network connections in parallel. Similar to Network Bonding, which is already supported in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, the Network Teaming feature increases throughput beyond what a single connection could sustain and provides redundancy to increase network uptime. Rollback on service pack upgrade When you upgrade to a new service pack for your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the full system rollback capability minimizes the risk and allows you to rollback easily. Interactive and unattended upgrades Using this feature, system administrators can quickly and easily upgrade their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems, reducing downtime, lowering administrative costs and improving quality. In fact, SUSE Linux Enterprise has been supporting (manual) major version upgrades for ten years. With YaST, you can interactively prepare a suitable profile and then use AutoYaST to automatically upgrade groups of servers. Shibboleth Shibboleth is a single sign-on (log-in) system for computer networks and specifically the web infrastructure. It allows people to sign in using just one identity to various systems across different domains. Shibboleth software is now included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1. Security standards compliance SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GA was successfully certified after Common Criteria Certification at EAL4+. In addition multiple cryptography security modules are validated to fulfill the requirements of FIPS 140-2 at Level 1 and Level 2. Those modules are OpenSSL, OpenSSH client and server, Strongswan (IPSec-based VPNs), the Kernal Crypto API, Mozilla NSS (Level 2) and libgcrypt. For details see our security certification and features page. The certified modules can be installed on SP1 from the "Certification Module." Modules Modern innovation can outpace the traditional enterprise software delivery model. The modules available in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 meet this need by providing faster integration with upstream updates. This design approach lets you balance the flexibility of the modules and stability of the infrastructure. The subscription management tool (SMT) The Subscription Management Tool is our proxy solution to help large organizations centrally receive patches and updates for their SUSE Linux Enterprise software. It provides our customers a way to easily migrate and gain much simpler and faster access to updates and patches. SMT is also the prescribed way for large organizations to gain the benefits of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Modules. Systems management functionality beyond a pure proxy is provided by SUSE Manager. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is supported on these 64-bit processor architectures: - Intel 64 and AMD64 - IBM POWER8 LE - IBM System z Our enterprise Linux server OS also supports more than 500 chipsets, storage systems and networking devices. This ensures you can run Linux in any data center and increase utilization of the commercial hardware you already own. CPU enablement introduced in GA From intel: - Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family - Intel Xeon processor E5-1600 v3 product family - Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 v3 product family - Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 product family - Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v3 product family - Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 v3 product family - Intel Atom processor C2000 product family For IBM: - IBM POWER8LE CPU enablement in SP1 From Intel: - From Intel:Intel Xeon Processor E3 v4 Family - Intel Xeon Processor E5 v4 Family - Intel Xeon Processor E7 v4 Family - Intel Xeon Processor D-1500 Family - The 6th Generation Intel Core processor family For IBM: - IBM z13