You are downloading the complete Novell Open Enterprise Server 2015 product with full functionality. As you install it, you are required to accept the end user license agreement (EULA). Your rights to use the product (including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3) are limited to the rights set forth in the EULA.

To download the system patches and updates, OES 2015 server requires activation codes (OES 2015 and SLES 11 SP3). Both 60-day evaluation codes and regular activation codes enable server patching.

Important: In order to register for an evaluation copy of the software, you must have an eLogin account. If you do not have an eLogin account, click here to create one.

Evaluation Registration

Novell Open Enterprise Server 2015 (OES 2015) is the most trusted, secure and highly available suite of enterprise ready services that provides file, print, networking and application services built on the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3.

OES 2015 provides:

• Native support for Microsoft Active Directory
  Active Directory users can natively access the NSS resources using a CIFS client. This is achieved by
  
  • Joining the OES 2015 server to an Active Directory domain.
  • Upgrading the NSS pool media format and AD-enabling the volumes.
  • Assigning AD users and groups as trustees on the NSS resources.
  • Accessing NSS resources as AD users from the clients that are already joined to the AD domain.
  
  
• DFS, DST, SMS, and Auditing are supported for AD users
• SMB v2 (SMB 2.002) support
  • Reduced network traffic: Achieved through using a lower number of verbs (19 verbs in SMB v2 v/s 100+ in SMB v1).
  • Performance improvement: SMB v2 (SMB 2.002) is more robust and is designed to perform better in high speed network environments.
  • Increased security: Achieved through using Kerberos for Active Directory, NLTMSSP for eDirectory user authentication, and HMAC-SHA256 for SMB signing.


• Large storage support
  • A new pool type (NSS64) is introduced to allow a pool to grow up to 8 Exabytes (EB). All pools prior to OES 2015 are of type NSS32 and support only up to 8 TB.
  • OES 2015 supports both NSS32 and NSS64 pools, and they can co-exist.
  • The NCP protocol has been extended to support volumes larger than 16 TB.


• The Distributed File Services plug-in for iManager has been enhanced to manage junctions and also to export list of junctions to a .csv file.

For more product information, see the following:

• Novell Open Enterprise Server
• Open Enterprise Server Documentation
• Open Enterprise Server Cool Solutions

You are also entitled to install and use the Identity Manager 4.5 Bundle Edition. For more information, see the Identity Manager 4.5 download page. You can also download the Identity Manager 4.5 Bundled Edition keys from the Customer Care Portal.

Downloading and Installing OES 2015

For information about the files to download and the disc labels to use, see the following table:

Files to Download	Label
OES2015-addon-x86_64-DVD1.iso	Open Enterprise Server 2015 64-bit DVD 1
SLES-11-SP3-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 64-bit DVD 1
OES2015-addon_with_SLES11-SP3-x86_64-DVD.iso	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 64-bit bundled with Open Enterprise Server 2015 64-bit

For services planning help, see the following sections in the OES 2015: Planning and Implementation Guide:

• What Services Are Included in OES 2015?

• Understand Your Installation Options

NOTE: Beginning with OES 2015, Archive and Version Services (AV) and QuickFinder services are not included. New installations of OES 2015 will not include patterns to install these components. If you are upgrading to OES 2015 from an earlier OES server (one that includes these packages), the AV and QuickFinder packages and the associated data will not be accessible on the OES 2015 server. However, the iManager plug-ins for AV and QuickFinder are still available in the OES 2015 package but not installed by default. You can install these plug-ins from iManager to manage servers prior to OES 2015.

1. On the Novell Open Enterprise Server Downloads page, click the Download button next to the following files to download them to a directory on your workstation:

   • OES 2015 Addon DVD1 image (.iso) file.

   • SLES 11 SP3 DVD1 image (.iso) file.

   • OES 2015 Addon with SLES 11 SP3 DVD image (.iso) file.

2. After downloading the image files, burn them to a DVD, and label the discs as indicated in the aforementioned table.

Verifying the Integrity of the Downloaded Files

To ensure a successful installation, you must compare the MD5 value of each downloaded file with the corresponding value listed on the OES Downloads page.

• On a Linux system at the shell prompt, enter the following command:
  md5sum filename
  where filename is the name of the file you are verifying.

• On a Windows system, obtain a Windows-compatible MD5-based checksum utility from the Web and follow the usage instructions for the utility.

Installing Novell Open Enterprise Server

For complete installation instructions, see the following installation guides and sections:

• OES 2015: Installation Guide

• Caveats to Consider Before You Install

For a list of known issues, see the OES 2015 Readme.

Documentation

For more information about OES services, see the OES 2015 Documentation Web site.

Purchasing Novell Open Enterprise Server 2015

To continue receiving patches and updates after the evaluation activation codes expire, you must purchase OES 2015 and configure the system with regular activation codes. Codes are good for one year. Notifications are sent to your registered email address so that you can update your annual maintenance agreements and subscriptions before they expire.

To purchase Novell Open Enterprise Server, contact a Novell Partner in your area.