SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Features and Benefits
Dealing with downtime, security breaches and high costs? It's time for SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server. When you choose this enterprise-quality server, there's no more scrambling to meet emerging threats. No more vendor lock-in. No more running underused servers dedicated to particular applications.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is designed to handle mission-critical workloads in your data center. It is the only open, scalable, high-performance data center solution that comes with integrated virtualization, application security and systems management across the full range of hardware architectures.
Features
When you choose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you can rely on:
- Integrated virtualization. Armed with Xen virtual machines on commodity hardware, your data center administrators get new levels of flexibility and agility at a lower total cost of ownership.
- Superior application security. Integrated Novell AppArmor® allows your administrators to specify permissible behavior for each application. Any behavior beyond that scope is denied and logged.
- Server and network security. Essential network security capabilities—including encryption, a firewall, and creation and management of security certificates—protect your mission-critical data.
- Comprehensive systems management. A unique set of server administration, configuration and deployment tools ease the burden of system maintenance.
- Cost-effective storage foundation. Open source components deliver a fully integrated, high-availability (HA) storage foundation at no additional cost.
- Extensive server services. Popular tools such as MySQL, iSCSI, Samba, Geronimo and more provide out-of-the-box functionality with your existing hardware and software.
Benefits
With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you get:
- Industry-leading performance and scalability
- Complete security for enterprise systems
- Improved resource utilization and lower hardware costs
- Centralized easy-to-use management
- Reliability and high availability
- Versatile storage management
- World-class support from Novell Customer Center
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is deployable as a general-purpose server or can be tailored to run a variety of specialized workloads, and it offers seamless interoperability with your existing IT infrastructure. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, your business can dramatically reduce costs while deploying the most secure and reliable data center server on the market.
Service Pack 4
Released on April 12, 2011, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 offers greater convenience and reduced risk, as well as greater flexibility. Service Pack 4 includes all of the patches, fixes and updates released for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 since its general availability, conveniently bundled into one package. It supports additional hardware, storage systems and networking devices, including Intel's latest Xeon E7 processor family and AMD's latest Opteron processors. It also offers an easy upgrade path to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1. Optional Long Term Service Pack support allows you to extend commercial support for Service Pack 4 for up to three additional years after its general support period ends.
For a complete list of updates, please read the release notes. And please visit our hardware certification portal to get an updated list of certified hardware.