Virtualization simplified with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Reduce IT Costs

Unique Subscription Policy
One subscription to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server covers all virtual images on the same physical server.

Smart enterprises today are using x86 server virtualization to consolidate workloads onto fewer physical servers, lower hardware acquisition and maintenance costs, reduce power and cooling costs, and simplify operations.

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server delivers support for all leading open source and proprietary hypervisor technologies, giving you maximum flexibility, and making it the smart choice for your enterprise. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ships with Xen, the leading open source virtualization hypervisor. It also comes with full commercial support for KVM, an emerging open source virtualization technology. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is also optimized to deliver superior performance when used as a guest operating system in virtual environments created with VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V. Whatever your hypervisor choice, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the "perfect guest" operating system, or optimal host for your virtualized IT infrastructure.

Improve Performance

Don't sacrifice performance for lower costs. Using Xen-based server virtualization that's included with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you can get a lot more from your data center. Try running virtual servers on newer, industry standard hardware. Not only will you shrink your total cost of ownership to record lows, you'll get the benefits of running workloads on faster, more efficient, modern systems.

What's more, optional paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack make it easy to consolidate all your Windows apps and services and run them with near native performance on virtualized Linux servers. It's time to start asking more from those servers sitting on the racks in your data center.

Do More With Less

Don't pay high upfront costs to get the results you need. Use Xen, the open source hypervisor that ships as an integrated part of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, to improve server utilization and increase responsiveness.

Some of the key benefits include:

• Streamlined services from using the only Microsoft-supported virtualization solution that provides joint customer support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows Server 2008 in virtualized environments
• Assurance of using a certified virtual solution stack for productive SAP environments on Linux
• Greater flexibility through support for both paravirtualization and full virtualization on the same server, leveraging both Intel VT and AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) processor capabilities

Built in virtualization management tools are easy on your wallet, as well as easy for your whole IT staff to use. You can easily move from old to new servers when new hardware becomes available or business conditions change. Use fully graphical and command-line virtual machine management tools for easy virtual machine (VM) administration and configuration. And tools for VM installation and lifecycle management help minimize the impact on your staff.

What's New in Service Pack 1

Service Pack 1 includes the latest Xen 4.0 hypervisor:

• Better performance - especially for I/O intensive workloads - through support for SR-IOV (single root I/O virtualization) and SR-ATS (single root address translation services)
• Full commercial support for KVM - an emerging open source virtualization hypervisor technology
• Linux integration components for Hyper-V

In addition, new paravirtualized drivers for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 guests are available with the updated SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack.

Comprehensive Technologies Support

We understand you have to deal with a variety of technologies in your data center. We've made it easy for everything to work together, by making sure that Novell technologies will seamlessly integrate into your mixed environment.

Learn more about the wide range of operating systems that are fully supported as paravirtualized and fully virtualized guest operating systems running on top of Xen-enabled SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers: "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 - Virtualization Technology Support."

As part of our interoperability agreement with Microsoft, Novell and Microsoft jointly support:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server running as an enlightened guest on Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 running as an paravirtualized guest on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Contact us for more information about virtualizing your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server workloads.