This Evaluation version is valid for 30 days and will provide you with special access to SUSE's expanded maintenance (and patch) channels, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance channels. However, this does not include access to SUSE Support Services.
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Subscription with Expanded Support is a premier support subscription that covers support for your existing Linux deployment while allowing you to integrate SUSE Linux Enterprise Server into your future Linux environment. Customers who are expanding their Linux environment, either through physical or virtualized environments, want scalability without the heavy support costs. Plus, enterprises want one seamless way to support their Linux infrastructure while being able to get tangible benefits from the most interoperable Linux.
With this affordable, interoperable and manageable open source foundation, enterprises can cost-effectively deliver core business services, enable secure networks and easily manage their heterogeneous IT resources, maximizing efficiency and value.
Now you have a way to expand your physical and/or virtual environment with the most interoperable and cost effective Linux - SUSE Linux Enterprise - while getting SUSE's #1 rated Linux support for your existing Linux deployment, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This offering gives you choice and flexibility for your support. You can select a one-year or three-year standard or priority support offering for your existing or future Linux deployment.
The Expanded Support offering lets you choose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server now, and receive the technical support you need for your existing environments.
The Expanded Support offering provides customers with choice and flexibility for their support options. The offering is available in one-year or three-year subscriptions, with each subscription entitling the user to support for SUSE Enterprise Linux Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server including:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the only Linux distribution that Microsoft officially recommends for customers who want to use Windows and Linux together. SUSE Linux Enterprise is also the only Linux platform that SAP endorses for customers who want to run their SAP applications on Linux.
When combined with Microsoft Windows, you get the unprecedented flexibility of running both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows Server, knowing that both operating systems will work together seamlessly.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is available for download for each available platform as four CD ISO images or two DVD ISO images:
Important: Create the CDs or DVD using the contents of the ISO images. Do not create the CDs or DVD by burning the .iso files themselves to CD or DVD. For example, if you're using K3b to burn a CD, click Tools > CD > Burn CD Image, select the .iso image, then click Burn.
For quick CD or DVD installation instructions, see the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Installation Quick Start.
For more detailed installation instructions, see the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Installation And Administration Guide.
SUSE Linux Subscription Management Tool (SMT) is required to be able to retrieve updates for Red Hat* Enterprise Linux (RHEL). SMT 11 enables customers that possess the required entitlements to mirror updates for RHEL.
SMT is available as a download to all customers with an active SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription and is fully supported. It is packaged as an add-on product to be installed on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 server. Any SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux product updated from nu.novell.com can be locally supported via a Subscription Management Tool server.
For instructions on how to prepare SMT server for mirroring and publishing updates for RHEL, please visit How to Update Red Hat Enterprise Linux with SMT 11.
During SMT setup, you will use the mirroring credentials you have received as part of this evaluation that enable time limited access to SUSE-provided RHEL update catalogs.