Whats New with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

What's new with
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
for IBM System z

John Jolly
Software Engineer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM System z
jjolly@novell.com

3 August 2010
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Overview

• Positioning
• Product lifecycle & generic features
• SLES for System z specific features

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®

A highly reliable, scalable and
secure server operating
system, built to power both
physical and virtual mission
critical workloads.
An affordable, interoperable
and manageable open source
foundation that enterprises
can use to costeffectively
deliver core business
services, enable secure
networks and easily manage
their heterogeneous IT
resources, maximizing
3 efficiency and value.
© Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

®

Competitive Advantages

SLE 11 SP 1 is not a “.0” release: proven
capabilities and technologies
Availability on the architecture of your choice: x86,
x86_64, POWER, Itanium, System z
Proven Scalability + Kernel Resource Management
Tickless Idle / Tickless Kernel available since 2009
Simplified Systems Management with YaST,
WebYaST and SMT
Security without the pain, AppArmor and System
defaults provide protection with a simple UI.


Differentiators – Unique Tools

• SLES for System z
– enterpriseclass and fully supported operating system
– tailored for mainframe available to customers years ahead
of competition
• Close partnership between IBM – SAP – Novell
– IBM's System z, SAP's and Novell's Linux core
engineering and L3support teams are located within a
circle of 200km.
– Fastest response and resolution times for any type of
support, consulting or Certificationincident.
• Build Service Advantage
– Reduces production problems
– Consolidates IT skills across disparate systems

– Delivers critical updates in hours – not days or weeks


• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension
– Delivers all of the essential monitoring, messaging and cluster
resource management functionality of proprietary thirdparty
solutions

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension
– Consolidate Windows workloads to System z use Mono to
develop .NET applications for System z

• AppArmor Linux Application Security Framework
– Easy to use GUI tools with static analysis and learningbased
profile development
– Create custom policy in hours, not days



• Package Management Subsystem
– ZYpp, ZYpper, libzypp
• Integrated Systems Management
– with YaST, AutoYaST, WebYaST
• Subscription Management Tool Hosting on System z
– Local package proxy tightly integrated with NCC included at no cost
– Secure centralized deployment within firewall, reduced bandwidth
needs

• Starter System for System z
– Prebuilt installation server — facilitates installation of SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server for System z on a z/VM system
– Easily initiate evaluations of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for

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System z

Why Choose SUSE Linux Enterprise ®

Server for System z
• The optimized version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
designed to run on IBM System z mainframes
– Fully supported by IBM, supports the full benefits of the mainframe (RAS)
– #1 in the mainframe Linux market (80% share)
– #1 in the SAPonLinux market (75% share)
– #1 in High Performance Computing (6 of top 10)
– Years ahead of competition (first SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for
System z version available back in 2000) – 10 years of expertise
– Ideal for workload consolidation, providing major cost savings
– More than 1,000 certified applications available
– New features specific to System z
– Starter System available for testing and proofs of concept
– High Availability stack included
– Hosting of Subscription Management Tool on System z

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– Mono for System z available – migrate .NET workloads

Standard Product Lifecycle

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10

GA General

SP1 General Long Term

SP2 General Long Term

SP3 General Long Term Self

SP4 General Self

Total General Self

Long Term Service
General General Support Long Term Self Self Support
Pack Support

• 10year lifecycle (7 years general support, 3 years self support)
• Service packs every 1618 months, major releases every 34 years
• Six month upgrade window
• Longterm service pack support option available

Current Product Lifecycle Overview

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Not es

CR: SLE 9 SP4 (2007)
EOGS: Q3 2011
EOSS: Q3 2014
SLE 9

CR: SLE 10 SP3 (2009)
EOGS: Q3 2013
EOSS: Q3 2016
SLE10 x
SP3 x
SP4

CR: SLE 11 GA (2009)
EOGS: Q2 2016
EOSS: Q2 2019
SLE 11 GA x
SP1 x
SP2 SP3x

GA: 2H 2013

SLE 12 GAx

Note: Milestones in future years are planned dates, and subject to change

SUSE Linux Enterprise
Maintenance & Support Process

Maintenance Support
Level 3 support incident
(level 1/2 support identifies customer problem as level 3)

General availability
Stage 4: Stage 1:
Customer implements Temporary fix (PTF)
new patch level (Level 3 support makes PTF
(via Maintenance Web) available to customer,
enabling continued productive
Stage 4 Stage 1 system utilization)

Stage 3:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Stage 3 Stage 2 Stage 2:
certified patch becomes SUSE Linux Enterprise engineering
part of the product develops productcompliant
(Delivery of new patch from the PTF
patch level to customer)

(SUSE Linux Enterprise engineering handles certification of
the patch, quality assurance)

Differentiators Technology
The Build Service* Advantage
Open Source Package Build Service Quality Testing Enterprise
Projects Selection and Class
Integration Software
Intel/AMD x86 Feature
Test
AMD/Intel x86_64
Manual
Regression SUSE Linux
Itanium
Enterprise
Automated
POWER Regression

Novell
System z System Test

Contribution

Reduces production problems
Consolidates IT skills across disparate systems
Delivers critical updates in hours – not days or weeks
* Build Service is the internal entity of the openSUSE BuildService infrastructure

SUSE Linux Enterprise
®

Common Code Base
SUSE Linux Enterprise platform

JeOS &
SLES SLED SLE SDK SLE HA
Appliances

Binary Code Base

Common (Open Source) Code Base

• Foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise products
• Fully supported core system: L3 support commitment


Features SLES 11 for System z

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z 11
®

New Features in GA Version
Dynamic add/remove of CPU and memory: resources of a Linux
guest under z/VM can be adjusted while running. A pool of CPUs are
dynamically given to a Linux guest and used as needed

Vertical CPU management: helps get the most performance out of
System z10 servers by being aware of the server's NUMA
characteristics

Linux CPU Node Affinity: improves performance by scheduling
processes to the optimal node where the CPU is associated,
exploiting the new System z10 CPU node topology

Modularization of qdio and thin interrupts: Make the thin
interrupt layer independent from qdio and improve the code
layering in the qdio module. This provides for additional
performance enhancements.

16 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. = SLES unique feature

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New Features in GA Version (c'd)
Performance analysis in the disk subsystem: gives performance
analysts the same type of view into SCSI over Fibre Channel Protocol
that they have with mainframe Direct Access Storage Devices (DASD)

DS8000 support Large volume support architecture: use use one
large volume, instead of multiple small volumes, for your large amount
of data. You no longer need to combine and manage various small
disks anymore. This gives you much better performance and data
consolidation.

Support of HPF TCW command interface in DASD driver
configuration support: lowers overhead of subchannel
operations and increases performance for database serving

FCP adjustable queue depth: Customizable queue depth
for SCSI commands in zfcp. In the past was at constant
32 queue entries. Improves performance

®

New Features in Service Pack 1
Suspend / Resume support: stop a running instance and later
continue operations. A suspended Linux instance does not require
memory or processor cycles. gives you better performance, resource
utilization, and power savings

Automatic IPL after dump: extension to the shutdown action
interface which combines the actions dump and reipl, helps increase
availabity and minimize downtime, as well as keep management and
service costs low

Cross architecture debugging: System z core dumps can be
analyzed on x86 systems, negating the need for a duplicate
System z server

System z kernel message documentation: messages in
System z related code, script to generate a man page for
every kernel message related to s390x

®

New Features in Service Pack 1 (c´d)
Next generation crypto HW device driver exploitation
(CEX2/CEX3): new System z crypto hardware features and
performance improvements are exploited by SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server for System z. Hardwaredriven crypto acceleration functions
help reduce operations and maintenance costs.
AF_IUCV SOCK_SEQPACKET support: improves close
collaboration between SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z
and z/VM in the networking area. This  provides  better performance
for intra machine / VM communication.
TTY terminal server over IUCV:  provides central access to the
Linux console for the different guests of a z/VM. Fullscreen
applications like vi are usable on the console.
Enhanced HiperSocket support: Additional Layer 2 support
for IPV4 and support for IPV6


®

New Features in Service Pack 1 (c´d)
s390tools enhancements: package with a set of user space utilities.
It is the essential tool chain for Linux on System z and contains
everything from the boot loader to dumprelated tools for a system
crash analysis

Large page support: enables better performance with large memory
footprints like in Java or database workloads by exploiting new
System z10 large memory pages (1MB)

Decimal Floating Point library support: libdfp including require
glibc infrastructure for I/O.

Kernel vdso support: speed up gettimeofday, clock_getres
and clock_gettime – more efficient time stamp generation.


SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
®

Scalability Today
• The only enterprise Linux operating system that helps
customers
– Manage several workloads within one Linux instance in a
lightweight manner by providing Kernel Resource
Management with Control Groups
– Compute huge amounts of data in memory, e.g. in data
warehouse and ERP systems, by supporting 16TiB RAM
(and beyond) on certified hardware (System z limits apply)
– Improve efficiency by leveraging HW support for resource
saving features due to the “tickles idle / timer patch” Kernel
– z10 scheduler optimizations and support for new floating
point features improve performance and increase
consolidation ratios

SUSE Linux Enterprise vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux
®

Linux Kernels

•SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (GA 08/2004)
Kernel 2.6.5, GCC 3.3.3, Service Pack 4 (GA 12/2007)

Kernel 2.6.16, GCC 4.1.0, Service Pack 3 (GA 09/2009)

Kernel 2.6.27, GCC 4.3.3,
Service Pack 1 Kernel 2.6.32, GCC 4.3.4 (GA 06/2010)

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 (GA 02/2005)
Kernel 2.6.9, GCC 3.4.3, Update 8 (GA 05/2009)

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5 (GA 03/2007)
Kernel 2.6.18, GCC 4.1.0, Update 4 (GA 09/2009)

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1
®

Kernel Capabilities
SLE 11 SP 1 (2.6.32) x86 ia64 x86_64 s390x ppc64
CPU bits 32 64 64 64 64
max. # logical CPUs 32 up to 4096 up to 4096 64 up to 1024
max. RAM 64/ 1 PiB/ 64 TiB/ 4 TiB/ 1 PiB/
(theoretical/practical) 16 GiB 8+ TiB 16TiB 256 GiB 512 GiB
max. user/ 3/1 GiB 2 EiB/φ 128 TiB/ φ/φ 2 TiB/
kernelspace 128 TiB 2 EiB
max. swap space up to 31 * 64 GB
max. #processes 1048576
max. #threads per tested with more than 120000; maximum limit depends on memory
process and other parameters
max. size per block up to 16 TiB and up to 8 EiB on all 64bit architectures
device
Supported on certified hardware only


Detailed Features
SLES 11 SP1 for System z

FCP – Enhanced Trace Facility
Fate 304023 / [LTC 201542]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.27.html > zfcp
Device Drivers, Features, and Commands as available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 p.74

• z IO tracing and performance statistics: allows faster problem
determination in case of issues by providing complete and
meaningful trace information in appropriate levels of detail to make
internal states of operation transparent.

• Customer benefit
technical business
● more detailed information on device Faster problem resolution
●

behaviour in case of malfunction Improved support for SLAs
●

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP3 yes n/a

FCP – Performance Statistics
Fate 304056 / [LTC 201591]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.27.html > zfcp

• z IO tracing and performance statistics: instrumentation to trace
and store workload specific SCSI activities and zFCP performance
data of customer systems, also usable for post issue resolution.

technical business
● more detailed information on device Faster problem resolution
●

behaviour in case of performance issues Improved support to maintain SLAs
●

or malfunction

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP3 yes n/a

FICON – Hyper PAV enablement
Fate 304066 /  [LTC 201000]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.25.html > HyperPAV
Device Drivers, Features, and Commands as available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 p.19ff

• z IO feature exploitation: sustained I/O performance improvements
exploiting Parallel Access Volume (PAV) support for disk storage access,
leads to significantly reduced configuration efforts as opposed to static PAV
setups, system will dynamically self optimizing its I/O configuration.

technical business
● Less configuration overhead, better IO ● Improved response times for services
performance, reduced responcse times bound to IO (like databases)
● Improved hardware utilization ● Better storage IO resource exploitation

● Higher VM consolidation ratios

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP4 yes n/a   = SLES unique feature

FICON – Format Record 0 on ECKD devices
Fate 306049 /  [LTC 201834]
(R0)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.29.html > (R0) allowed
allowed

• Hardware support: allow the Storage Server to format record 0 on an
ECKD track.

technical business
● Required support for specific storage ● Use of storage units from different
units vendors

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a

DS8000: Large Volume Support
Fate 304026 / [LTC 201597]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.29.html > EAV

• Hardware exploitation: Implement support for DS8k volumes, which
have more than 64k Cylinders. This comprises especially use of the CCCHR
(vs. CCHHR) addressing scheme and appropriate calculation formulas.

technical business
● Use DASD/ECKD disk bigger than 50GB ● Better performance and data
for large amount of data, not needing to consolidation.
combine various disks

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP3 yes n/a

DS8000 Disk Encryption
Fate 307004 / [LTC 201740]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390tools1.8.1.html > dasdview

• Hardware support: enhances s390tools to be able to display if the disk
storage has its disk encrypted or not.

technical business
● Retrieve info on encryption status of Secure data storage
●

device

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP3 yes n/a

HiperSockets MAC Layer Routing Support
Fate 302792 / [LTC 200997]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.25.html > HiperSockets

• Network support: HiperSockets are enhanced to support layer2
functionality, allowing for more sophisticated network configurattions
like vlan and virtual switches

technical business
● ability to route through an intermediate ● Save on expensive hardware (switches)
virtual switch for layer2 bridging into ● Agile configuration (change config, do not

external networks. not move hardware and cables)
● More flexible integration into existing IP

networks

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 yes n/a
SP3 yes n/a

OSA 2 Ports per CHPID support
Fate 302802 / [LTC 201360]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.25.html > OSA

• Hardware exploitation: Provide exploitation for new OSA 2 port
feature (2 ports per single CHPID) including configuration with yast

technical business
● More network ports per installed card, ● Hardware savings
more network traffice per card, more ● Increased connectivity allowing more per

flexibilty due to increased number of ports host

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 yes n/a
SP3 yes n/a

z/VM virtual server integration

AF_IUCV Protocol Support
Fate 302783 /  [LTC 200788]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.31.html > AF_IUCV

• z/VM infrastructure exploitation:  Use IUCVcommunication
through a socket interface. Improves the close collaboration
between SLES and z/VM in the networking area.

technical business

  Light weight protocol to connect  Reduced protocol overhead allows better
applications in different VMs with high consolidation ratios
bandwidth, low latency
 More choice to connect apps and VMs

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 yes n/a
SP3 yes n/a
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Provide Linux Process Data into z/VM Monitor Stream
Fate 302787 /  [LTC 200920]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.x.html > z/VM

• z/VM infrastructure exploitation:  monitor the performance of
SLES or other VM guests with performance monitoring tools on
z/VM or on Linux. Use own, IBM Performance Toolkit for VM, or
third party tools. VMs being monitored require agents that write
monitor data.
technical business
● Health and performance check of Keep SLAs, resource utilization control
●

applications in multiple VMs
● Adapt to our own requirements

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 yes n/a

Exploitation Of DCSS above 2GB
Fate 304031 /  [LTC 201592]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.27.html > DCSS

• z/VM infrastructure exploitation:  ability to have 'objects' residing
in shared memory that are either > 2G in size, or several objects
whose aggregate size is >2G. Requires z/VM 5.4.

technical business
● More capacity and/or flexibility in using More efficient resource consumption
●

shared memory segments among VMs Higher consolidation ratios
●

● Fast process and data access

● Workload separation w/ data sharing

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP3 n/a   = SLES unique feature

Linux CPU Node Affinity
Fate 302791 /  [LTC 200994]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.25.html > CPU affinity

• Hardware topology exploitation: according to the CPU node
topology (LPAR / z10) optimizes the Linux scheduler to schedule
processes for better cache hit rate.

technical business
● Overall performance increase More efficient resource utilization
●

Higher consolidation ratios
●

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 yes n/a

Standby CPU activation / deactivation
Fate 304064 /  [LTC 201064]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.25.html > Standby CPU

• Hardware exploitation and dynamic resource allocation: allows
Linux to make use of standby cpus which are not visible until they
are activated in LPARs and z/VM.

technical business
● Adjust CPU resources to fit application ● Keep SLAs and response times
requirements ● Resource consumption and thus
expenses on demand
●

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a

Dynamic CPU Hotplug Daemon
Fate 302806 / [LTC 201132]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.25.html > CPU affinity

• Hardware exploitation and dynamic resource allocation: allows
SLES z/VM guest to allocate or free CPU resources depending on
workload base rules

technical business
● Automated and adjustable workload ● Keep SLAs and response times
based management ● Agile resource consumption
● Efficient use and reallocation of existing

resources

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 yes n/a
SP3 yes n/a

System z Vertical CPU Management
Fate 304068 /  [LTC 200991]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.25.html > vertical CPU

• z/VM exploitation and dynamic resource allocation: allows SLES
z/VM guest to switch between different scheduling schemes:
allocate all scheduled time to one CPU, or spread schedule time
between multiple CPU (if present).

technical business
● Some workloads benefit from longer ● Keep SLAs and response times
scheduler time slices, some scale better ● Agile resource governance
with multiple CPUs ● Efficient use and reallocation of existing

resources

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a

Standby Memory Add Via SCLP
Fate 304060 /  [LTC 201140]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.27.html > SCLP
Device Drivers, Features, and Commands as available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 p.229/259

• z/VM exploitation and dynamic resource allocation: attach and
use standby memory that is configured for a logical partition or z/VM
guest (starting z/VM 5.4)

technical business
● Adjust memory to application or VM Improved consolidation ratio
●

guest specific needs Agile resource management
●

●More efficient use of resources

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a

Dynamic CHPID Reconfiguration Via SCLP
Fate 302797 /  [LTC 201020]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/ > SCLP

• hardware exploitation and dynamic resource allocation: attach,
detach or reconfigure CHPIDs for a logical partition or z/VM guest

technical business
● Adjust IO channel assignment to LPAR Agile resource management
●

or VM guest specific needs
● More efficient use of resources

● IO load balancing

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a

Summary Of IPL related features

• 306082  Provide CMS script for initial IPL under z/VM

• 306044  Shutdown actions interface (userspace)

• 306072  Shutdown actions interface (kernel)

• 306081  Shutdown actions tools

• 306048  Large image dump on DASD

• 306062  Extra kernel parameter via VMPARM
SLES 10 11
GA y
SP1 y
SP2 n/a
SP3 y n/a

Diagnostics and trouble shooting

Provide service levels of HW and Hypervisor in Linux
Fate 307008 / [LTC xxxxxx]
http://www.ibm.com/> search developerworks

• Identify hardware and MLC levels: admin can query machine
name, MCL level, zVM machine data and version information from a
Linux guest

technical business
● Query machine a software information Keep SLAs by faster problem resolution
●

● Faster error isolation and issue

resolution

SLES 10 11
GA
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP3 yes n/a

Kernel Message Catalog Autogeneration
Fate 306999 /  [LTC 201727]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/kernel2.6.29.html#messagecatalog
Kernel Messages (lk32km00.pdf)

• Additional documentation and improved problem resolution:
the kernel components are instrumented in a way that a message
catalog as well as related man pages are automatically generated
and can be retrieved by the administrator.

technical business
● Documentation of kernel related Keep SLAs by faster problem resolution
●

messages
● Faster error isolation and issue

resolution

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a

TTY terminal server over IUCV
Fate 302001 /  [LTC 201734]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390tools1.8.1.html > iucvterm

• Terminal access without IP: Implement client & server for a TTY
terminal server under z/VM using IUCV as communication vehicle.

technical business

  Optional full terminal to access a guest Easy of use


even if TCP/IP stack is down
 Alternative to x3270 line based console

access

SLES 10 11
GA yes
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a
SP3 yes n/a
51 ©  Novell, Inc.  All rights reserved. Category: s390 tools

Support Decimal Floating Point Library
Fate 307062 /  [LTC 201933]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/toolchain.html > decimal floating

• Decimal flointing point hardware exploitation: Most financial
transactions require decimal computation. Supporting the emerging
standard for Decimal Floating Point.

technical business

 Faster business related math operations  Offloads processor from software
due to hardware acceleration emulation for the benefit of other
workloads

SLES 10 11 Category: toolchain
GA
SP1 yes
SP2 n/a

AppArmor Security
• Creates firewall around any Linux program (custom,
open source, third party)
• Prevents the exploitation of unknown or
undiscovered application vulnerabilities
• Easy to use GUI tools with static analysis and
learningbased profile development
• Default policies included
• Create custom policy in hours, not days


Package Management Subsystem
• ZYpp: Core of the new software management stack
• ZYpper: Command line package manager
– Can manipulate package repositories (like the Build Service)
– Can search for packages, install, remove, or update packages
and more
• libzypp: Software management library
– Provides all the functionality for a package manager
> API for package repository management
> API for solving packages, products, patterns and patches (installation,
removal, update and distribution upgrade operations) dependencies
> API for commiting the transaction to the system over a rpm target
> API for browsing available and installed software
> A suite of maintained solving testcases

YaST, AutoYaST, WebYaST
• YaST installation and configuration management framework
– Unified and consistent single interface to all systems management tasks via
modules
Prepare Install Configure
– Configure every aspect of the server
Preconfigure Partition Install
– Enhanced YaST Partitioner packages

– CIM Standard adopted Create profile Create X11
filesystem
• AutoYaST autoinstallation
Get profile Install System
Packages variables
– A tool for installing SUSE Linux
®

Parse profile Bootloader SuSEconfig
Enterprise on systems with as much
(or little) automation as you want Convert Data Hardware
– Works in networked and
nonnetworked environments Network

– Very flexible, very scalable,
Misc. configs
easy to use

• WebYaST


Subscription Management Tool Hosting
Subscription and patch management made easy
• A local package proxy tightly integrated with
Novell Customer Center
• Included at no cost with SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server and fully supported
Benefits
• Secure centralized deployment within the firewall
• In cooperation with NCC, automatically assigns registration codes
• Reduces bandwidth use
• Accurately and automatically tracks entitlements
• Uses your existing customer interface
Key Features
• Staging of patches
• Central deployment
• Support of “sneakernet” configurations
• Works with new integrated supportability infrastructure

Starter System for System z
Historically, one of the biggest hurdles to implementing Linux
on the mainframe has been gaining network access to the
installation media from the mainframe (Installation routine
cannot access builtin DVD reader, Firewall rule changes
needed)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z
is a prebuilt installation server — facilitates installation of
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z on a z/VM system
Eliminates the network access hurdle to try out Linux on the
mainframe — gaining network access to the installation
media from the mainframe
Allows customers with little or no Linux or z/VM experience to
initiate evaluations of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for
System z

http://www.novell.com/partners/ibm/mainframe/starterpack.html

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