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Linux Day – 2010 Tour 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? 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 4 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 5 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 ERP, SCM, Enterprise Real Time Cluster SAN Database Web Mainframe CRM, HR 6 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 7 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 8 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 9 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 10 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 11 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 3500 3,325 3,005 3,160 2,810 3000 2,539 2,645 2,361 2500 2,339 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 S L E 9 S L E 10 and 11 and unknown, whereas Novell® numbers are public and countable. Recent claims from Red Hat R H E L 4 R H E L 5 suggest that their catalog has 3,500+ applications, well below our count 12 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 13 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 14 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. SUSE® Linux Enterprise Only Linux Endorsed By 15 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 17 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 18 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 19 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 20 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 21 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 22 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 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 23 © Novell, Inc.