SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 in Manufacturing SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 in Manufacturing
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Vertical White Paper www.novell.com RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 in Manufacturing SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 in Manufacturing Table of Contents: 2 . Simplify, Secure and Consolidate Your Enterprise from the Data Center to the Shop Floor 2 . Delivering Mission-critical IT Services within the Manufacturing Industry 4 . Why Now is the Time for Linux in Manufacturing 6 . Making an Impact with SUSE Linux Enterprise in Manufacturing 11 . Why Manufacturers Should Choose Novell for Linux 12 . Conclusion p. 1 Simplify, Secure and Consolidate Your Enterprise from the Data Center to the Shop Floor SUSE Linux Enterprise Delivering Mission-critical SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The most Server integrates the Xen IT Services within the reliable, secure and scalable Linux operating hypervisor for virtualiza- Manufacturing Industry system designed for the most critical data tion, so you can organize center workloads—such as your Oracle* or As a manufacturer, you face an extremely your IT infrastructure SAP* enterprise deployments. challenging, competitive environment. just as your operations SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. The Globalization, mergers and acquisitions and group organizes your best Linux desktop operating system for production environment. rapid innovation pressure you to drive new businesses today. Its flexible design enables products to market faster and at lower costs. both fixed-function deployments and high- To maintain your competitive advantage end computing—enabling you to use one and ensure sustainable growth in this operating system across your factory floor environment, you need to: workstations and engineering departments. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is the first Reduce cycle times through better Linux* desktop to give the basic office business processes worker complete office functionality, Decrease time-to-market interoperability features and productivity Increase security for collaboration and improvements—providing you with a new, compliance viable solution for substantially reducing Provide high-availability business desktop total cost of ownership (TCO). infrastructure applications Novell Customer Center. One location to Allow authorized users secure, reliable, obtain support, updates and renewals for any-time-access to enterprise applications all your SUSE Linux Enterprise product subscriptions. SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server from Novell® enables you to deliver mission-critical IT Novell also offers a powerful set of tools services—with enhanced security and reduced (including YaST, AutoYaST, Novell AppArmor™ costs—while improving data center reliability and Novell ZENworks® Linux Management) and performance. that simplify server administration, application deployments, application security and overall Introducing SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 systems management. These tools reduce the cost of managing and integrating your SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 is the Platform for network. In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise ™ the Open Enterprise . Novell designed SUSE Server integrates the Xen* hypervisor for Linux Enterprise to be the best-engineered, virtualization, so you can organize your IT lowest-cost and most interoperable platform infrastructure just as your operations group for enterprise computing. From the desktop to organizes your production environment based the data center, only SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 on demand. The result is higher levels of offers a complete open source platform for consolidation and server utilization. the mission-critical applications that drive your business. SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Increases Benefits with Virtualization The SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform Two major new developments will have a comprises the following components: dramatic effect on virtualization technology p. 2 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 in Manufacturing www.novell.com adoption. On the hardware side, x86 archi- virtualization technology, you can decouple SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 tecture-based microprocessor manufacturers software from hardware to pool IT resources. continues to lead the way have released a new generation of chips that Although virtualization technology has many in data center virtualiza- support virtualization natively. On the software uses in corporate infrastructure computing, tion, with support for both side, the open-source Xen hypervisor virtual you can gain advantages in two main areas: x86-based processors machine technology has eliminated much of consolidating hardware and increasing and mainframes. the performance impact associated with the utilization of your compute capacity. mediation layer of full virtualization and soft- ware emulation. Xen also drives down the Like many manufacturers, you likely have an overall cost of virtualization. abundance of home-grown or legacy appli- cations. You can now use virtualization to Novell expertise and technologies will play consolidate them on less expensive commod- prominent roles in virtualized data centers. ity hardware without having to rewrite old SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 continues to lead applications. You can simply run your applica- the way in data center virtualization, with support for both x86-based processors and tions as guests on your new hardware running mainframes. In addition, Novell is the first SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. In addition, enterprise Linux vendor to ship Xen as part engineering environments have often over- of its distribution. extended computing capacity as a function of the application types and versions they are Virtualization offers you impressive new levels running. With virtualization technology, you of resource utilization and improvements in can substantially increase compute-capacity availability, manageability, scalability, perform- utilization by using the same hardware to ance and application security. By employing run multiple applications independently. Figure 1. The Xen architecture enables virtualized operating systems to talk directly to hardware, with minimal impact on performance. p. 3 Manufacturers cannot afford to delay Linux can configure a modular, rich system that helps you consolidate servers, reduce costs and deployment any longer. Highly competitive consistently achieve high quality of service. industries—such as retail and financial SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time also sup- ports Concurrent’s powerful NightStar* tools services—have embraced Linux as a for debugging and analyzing complex, time- way to stave off competitive pressures critical Linux applications. and re-think the way that IT will help Why Now is the Time for Linux grow their businesses. in Manufacturing Drivers such as the Internet boom, Y2K, the growth of enterprise resource planning By choosing SUSE Linux You can also combine the Xen hypervisor (ERP) and the lack of wide-area networks Enterprise Real Time offered in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (WANs) led to decentralized infrastructures for your deterministic with next-generation chips that support and excess operational costs. These costs computing needs, you virtualization natively. For highly qualified rise as you factor in underutilized servers and can configure a modular, environments, you can deploy as many redundant support organizations deployed at rich system that helps fully virtualized machines as you need each site. To a manufacturer looking to make you consolidate servers, under one qualification. your business lean, this is unacceptable. reduce costs and To innovate and get your products to market consistently achieve Introducing SUSE Linux Enterprise faster than ever before, you need to reduce high quality of service. Real Time operational costs and automate manage- SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time is an ment—even at remote sites—while increasing industry-standard, real-time version of Linux security and ensuring agility. This means for Intel- and AMD-based multiprocessors. making smart choices in base infrastructure This platform, an enriched distribution of the technology. Manufacturers cannot afford to SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel from Novell, delay Linux deployment any longer. Highly provides you with guaranteed performance competitive industries—such as retail and in time-critical environments for hardware- financial services—have embraced Linux as in-the-loop simulations, data acquisition a way to stave off competitive pressures and or process control. Key features—including re-think the way that IT will help grow their CPU shielding, kernel preemption, low latency businesses. Manufacturers have lagged and priority inheritance—help you achieve behind this wave but can now leverage sustainable, hard real-time performance on the proven successes of their counterparts Linux. You can also rely on capabilities that in these industries. improve quality of service and enable a service-oriented infrastructure. These features Numerous leading-edge manufacturers are include distributed shared memory, Xen virtu- using Linux throughout their enterprises— alization and real-time cluster file systems, from the data center to the shop floor. By re- all of which SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time placing costly UNIX* or Microsoft* Windows* enhances significantly with its low latency deployments with Linux, you, too, can signif- and deterministic processing. icantly reduce costs and improve system performance. Following is a closer look at By choosing SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time specific areas where Linux can provide you for your deterministic computing needs, you an advantage. p. 4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 in Manufacturing www.novell.com Replacing