SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Virtualization

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

Armed with Xen virtual servers on commodity hardware, you can create new levels of flexibility and agility in your data center at a lower total cost of ownership. And using paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack, you can consolidate your Windows applications, as well as your other legacy services with confidence, running them unmodified with near native performance on fully virtualized servers.

Advantages of Xen Virtualization in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

With the Xen-based virtualization integrated in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, you can:

• Increase server utilization by consolidating physical servers and applications, thus lowering hardware, maintenance and electrical costs.
• Increase business continuity and system uptime by migrating disparate workloads onto virtual machines without interruption.
• Leverage excess data center capacity and improve response times by balancing computing loads across data center resources at peak times.
• Redeploy physical server resources. For example, you could migrate server workloads to virtual farms and release physical resources, redeploying them for other uses. You can also dynamically reassign physical resources to a different virtual machine on a single physical server.
• Provide application portability and flexibility across hardware platforms.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP 2 showcases Linux as a powerful, universal server host and introduces unique capabilities:

• Only Microsoft-supported virtualization solution to provide joint customer support for companies that run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows Server 2008 in virtualized environments.
• Supported virtualization technologies (Xen) for productive SAP environments with Linux.
• Full support for Xen 3.2 virtualization on both 32- and 64-bit x86-based architectures with the capability to host 32-bit virtual machines on 64-bit virtualization host servers.
• Provide support for both paravirtualization and full virtualization on the same server, leveraging both Intel VT and AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) processor capabilities.
• Offer fully graphical and command-line virtual machine management tools for easy virtual machine (VM) administration and configuration, as well as tools for VM installation and lifecycle management.
• NetWare® 6.5 SP7 (delivered as part of Novell Open Enterprise Server 2) to run virtualized

Xen Virtual Server is Enterprise-ready

Xen is ready for enterprise deployment. The Xen hypervisor integrated into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 is stable, and Novell fully supports it. Novell, XenSource and our IHV partners (including AMD, Dell Fujitsu Siemens Computing, HP, IBM and Intel) have proven the stability of Xen through thousands of hours of quality assurance testing. Moreover, with Xen virtual server integrated into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, you can test and use a supported open source virtualization solution in real-life environments.

Xen is ready for the large majority of enterprise use cases. Novell will work with you to find the right applications and help you deploy them on Xen, and then deliver enterprise-quality support to ensure that virtualization delivers all the value you expect. And you can use the YaST management interface to easily install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 guests on top of the Xen-based SUSE Linux Enterprise Server virtualization host.

Realize the benefits of open source virtualization faster, and leverage innovation for strategic competitive advantage through Novell's Fast Track to Virtualization.

Xen in the Marketplace

All leading hardware vendors support the Xen hypervisor included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. Deployments with enterprise customers like Sesame Street, BMW, Casio have again confirmed the stability of Novell virtualized environments. Some of these customers have virtualized more than 100 servers using Xen on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Xen Virtualization Technology Support

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 offers virtualization capabilities unmatched by those in other operating systems. Out of the box, it can create Xen virtual machines running modified, highly tuned, paravirtualized guest operating systems for optimal performance. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 is the first Linux OS to be tuned for the Xen hypervisor, one of the hottest virtualization technologies today.

SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 with Xen hypervisor fully supports:

• Paravirtualization as a modified virtual machine operating system on top of Xen-enabled SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
• NetWare 6.5 SP7+ (as part of Novell Open Enterprise Server 2)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Full virtualization as unmodified virtual machine operating systems using Intel VT or AMD-V chipsets
• Microsoft Windows, including MS Windows 2000, 2003 and XP
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 and SP4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

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

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

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