From fcrozat at suse.com Wed Mar 4 03:39:43 2015 From: fcrozat at suse.com (Frederic Crozat) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:39:43 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] Welcome to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 Beta test Message-ID: <1425465583.27961.21.camel@par-r81vxc7.par.novell.com> Dear all, let me officially welcome you to the Beta Test of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 Here are some informations about our Beta program: * Schedule: 2015?-03?-05 SLE 11 SP4 Beta 2 2015?-03?-19 SLE 11 SP4 Beta 3 2015?-04?-23 SLE 11 SP4 Beta 4 2015?-05?-07 SLE 11 SP4 RC1 2015?-05?-21 SLE 11 SP4 RC2 2015-July FCS * Beta Test communication: - Mailing lists: - announcements of new beta versions, and share technical information - serve as discussion forums - share information about issues found by participants - to post findings, also to minimize reporting of duplicates sles-beta at lists.suse.com sled-beta at lists.suse.com sleha-beta at lists.suse.com - PSE/DSE SUSE customers with PSE/DSE can report issues through their SUSE contact. - Service Requests Other participants in the beta test may use their Novell login and Beta support entitlements to file service requests. Please use your entitled accounts for BETA TEST: SLES 11SP4 (use this also for SLES HA) BETA TEST: SLED 11SP4 This can be reached from https://novell.com/beta/ and choose "Submit Service Request". Potential updates and fixes are either delivered by PSE or DSE, or with a subsequent release. * Beta tests logistics: For any logistics, access issues, specific questions, please contact me Fr?d?ric Crozat (Beta Project Manager) at the following address beta-programs at lists.suse.com * Download: To download our beta image: go to https://novell.com/beta/ and in "View my Beta", you will see all the SLE11 SP4 beta products you are entitled to download. Please note our Beta Program starts with Beta2 release of SLE 11 SP4. Beta1 is already available from https://novell.com/beta/ but we advise you to wait until Beta2 is released by end of this week, to not loose time in testing an older release. However, you can try to download Beta1 to ensure you don't have any issue with the download process. Thanks. -- Frederic Crozat Project Manager Enterprise Desktop SUSE From fcrozat at suse.com Wed Mar 4 06:27:00 2015 From: fcrozat at suse.com (Frederic Crozat) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:27:00 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] What's new in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 Message-ID: <1425475620.27961.36.camel@par-r81vxc7.par.novell.com> Dear beta testers, you might be wondering what you should expect from SLE11 SP4, compared to SLE11 SP3. Here are some of the most important changes you will find in SP4 (some might not be available at this time in the Beta test). Of course, I didn't mention all the bug fixes which were done through maintenance updates since SP3 GA and are already integrated in SP4. What?s new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 - new CPU enablement, such as Intel? Xeon? processor E7-8800/4800 v3 product family, IBM z13? (z13), and IBM POWER8 BE. - Public Cloud module and Security module are now available for SP4. These modules are independent repository channels and are included in subscription without additional cost: * Public Cloud Module: The Public Cloud Module is a collection of tools that enables you to create and manage cloud images from the command line on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. When building your own images with KIWI or SUSE Studio, initialization code specific to the target cloud is included in that image. The tools and initialization code in this module will be updated whenever a new version is ready, always giving you the freshest. * Security Module The Security Module was introduced a while ago and it allows customers and partners to build TLS 1.2 compliant infrastructures beyond the https protocol. What?s new in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 Service Pack 4 includes a new feature called pacemaker_remote. It allows nodes not running the cluster stack (pacemaker+corosync) to integrate into the cluster and have the cluster manage their resources just as if they were a real cluster node. This feature makes it ideal to deploy large scale SAP deployment by supporting worker nodes as scale-out clustering option. With this feature, you can deploy a HA cluster with up to 40+ nodes. SP4 improves the usability in HAWK by introducing new templates and wizards. Oracle and DB2 related templates and wizards make SP4 easier to use to boost your database availability. -- Frederic Crozat Project Manager Enterprise Desktop SUSE From fcrozat at suse.com Wed Mar 4 05:48:11 2015 From: fcrozat at suse.com (Frederic Crozat) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:48:11 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] What's new in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 Message-ID: <1425473291.27961.33.camel@par-r81vxc7.par.novell.com> Dear beta testers, you might be wondering what you should expect from SLE11 SP4, compared to SLE11 SP3. Here are some of the most important changes you will find in SP4 (some might not be available at this time in the Beta test). Of course, I didn't mention all the bug fixes which were done through maintenance updates since SP3 GA and are already integrated in SP4. What?s new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 - new CPU enablement, such as Intel? Xeon? processor E7-8800/4800 v3 product family, IBM z13? (z13), and IBM POWER8 BE. - Public Cloud module and Security module are now available for SP4. These modules are independent repository channels and are included in subscription without additional cost: * Public Cloud Module: The Public Cloud Module is a collection of tools that enables you to create and manage cloud images from the command line on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. When building your own images with KIWI or SUSE Studio, initialization code specific to the target cloud is included in that image. The tools and initialization code in this module will be updated whenever a new version is ready, always giving you the freshest. * Security Module The Security Module was introduced a while ago and it allows customers and partners to build TLS 1.2 compliant infrastructures beyond the https protocol. What?s new in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 Service Pack 4 includes a new feature called pacemaker_remote. It allows nodes not running the cluster stack (pacemaker+corosync) to integrate into the cluster and have the cluster manage their resources just as if they were a real cluster node. This feature makes it ideal to deploy large scale SAP deployment by supporting worker nodes as scale-out clustering option. With this feature, you can deploy a HA cluster with up to 40+ nodes. SP4 improves the usability in HAWK by introducing new templates and wizards. Oracle and DB2 related templates and wizards make SP4 easier to use to boost your database availability. -- Frederic Crozat Project Manager Enterprise Desktop SUSE From snbarth at suse.de Thu Mar 5 07:05:02 2015 From: snbarth at suse.de (Stephan Barth) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 15:05:02 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] Updates through Betatest? In-Reply-To: <50C4FA80D11E25409E81FE9DEC9284A17014DC0C@WEXCPPA011.fhhnet.stadt.hamburg.de> References: <50C4FA80D11E25409E81FE9DEC9284A17014DC0C@WEXCPPA011.fhhnet.stadt.hamburg.de> Message-ID: <20150305140502.GC24948@lovelace.suse.de> Hello, On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 06:28:36AM +0000, Sielck, Jochen wrote: > what about Updates/Patches through Betatest? Will they be available with SMT-Registration? We are planning to provide test updates during the beta test, but at the moment none is in preparation. Are you interested in a specific update or fix? -- Regards, Stephan Barth - Project Manager Maintenance SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imend?rffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG N?rnberg) From behlert at suse.com Thu Mar 5 15:42:50 2015 From: behlert at suse.com (Stefan Behlert) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 23:42:50 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLES 11 SP4 Beta2 is available Message-ID: <20150305224249.GB3634@suse.de> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! SUSE CONFIDENTIAL !! SUSE CONFIDENTIAL !! SUSE CONFIDENTIAL !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dear Beta participants, we are happy to announce the second Beta of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4. ISO images are now available for download now. Please go to http://www.novell.com/beta and select "View my beta page". Here you should see all Beta's you are part of. Note that the directory contains the images for the SDK as well as for SLES. We offer 3 DVD ISOs: DVD1 contains the binaries, the second DVD the sources and the third DVD the debuginfo packages. The final product will not contain the debuginfo packages on the media. For installation purposes you just need media 1 for your architecture. Please verify the md5sum of the ISO using the MD5SUMS file, which can be found in the same directory on the download servers. Known issues (selection): - isohybrid mode not working (installation via USB stick) [bnc#914092] - yast refuses to set /boot on raid1 device on ppc64 [bnc#919980] - SSH not enabled even if SSH used for installation [bnc#920398] - migration from SP3 to SP4 not working without manual interaction for some scenarios With this Beta snapshot we have reached several milestones: o Milestone: Update is working (installable media). o Start update tests. o Start performance and regression tests. o Start system test. o Continue install and functional tests. o Continue tests of new/updated device drivers. For the next Beta-Release we are targetting these actions and milestones: o Milestone: All SLE11-SP4 features have been functionally tested. o Milestone: All new/updated device drivers have been tested. o Continue update, performance and regression tests. o Continue system test. o Start first stress and certification tests. Thanks in advance for all your testing Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team -- Stefan Behlert, SUSE LINUX Release Manager Enterprise Server Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany Phone +49-911-74053-173 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg; GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) From dick.waite at dickwaite.com Thu Mar 5 22:58:00 2015 From: dick.waite at dickwaite.com (Dick Waite) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:58:00 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] Servers Down ? Message-ID: Been downloading since 04:00 local Germany and about 10 mins ago say 06:40 all access to the Novell Beta servers and other Novell sites are down. Could be some daily maint ??? -- Regards, Dick Waite Dick Waite Consulting Mobile +49 171 8393 769 Dick.Waite at DickWaite.Com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sitz/Registered office: Uhlandstra?e 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany ? Registergericht/Commercial register: Darmstadt HRB 1562 - Vorstand/Management Board: Karl-Heinz Streibich (Vorsitzender/Chairman), Eric Duffaut, Dr. Wolfram Jost, Arnd Zinnhardt; - Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Andreas Bereczky - http://www.softwareag.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcrozat at suse.com Thu Mar 5 23:42:38 2015 From: fcrozat at suse.com (Frederic Crozat) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 07:42:38 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] Novell is back In-Reply-To: <46AC8C81C10B8C48820201DF2AE1D76DBD17912A@hqmbx6.eur.ad.sag> References: <46AC8C81C10B8C48820201DF2AE1D76DBD17912A@hqmbx6.eur.ad.sag> Message-ID: <1425624158.3164.8.camel@par-r81vxc7.par.novell.com> Le vendredi 06 mars 2015 ? 06:29 +0000, Waite, Dick a ?crit : > Grand Morning, > > Novell kicked back into like about 5 nins ago. My downloads are > picking up in the "resume"... Okay, time to go on the road, hope the > "maint" slot is over ;o) > > Have a grand day you all... And beware, CDN might sometime reports 404 error when downloading an image, depending where you are on the globe. If it happens, wait a bit (grab a cup of tea or coffee) and try again. -- Frederic Crozat Project Manager Enterprise Desktop SUSE From behlert at suse.com Fri Mar 6 02:06:14 2015 From: behlert at suse.com (Stefan Behlert) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:06:14 +0100 Subject: [sles-beta] Servers Down ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20150306090614.GF32599@suse.de> Moin, On Mar 06, 15 06:58:00 +0100, Dick Waite wrote: > Been downloading since 04:00 local Germany and about 10 mins ago say 06:40 > all access to the Novell Beta servers and other Novell sites are down. > Could be some daily maint ??? No, it was some unexpected outage - not sure what it was exactly, but we know it was not planned :( And of course it it had to happened at exact the wrong time, sigh. Stefan -- Stefan Behlert, SUSE LINUX Release Manager Enterprise Server Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany Phone +49-911-74053-173 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg; GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) From srd-csi-zack at foxconn.com Fri Mar 6 01:03:04 2015 From: srd-csi-zack at foxconn.com (srd-csi-zack at foxconn.com) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:03:04 +0800 Subject: [sles-beta] Updates through Betatest? Message-ID:
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Yes. I am interested. Thanks.
 
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Hello,

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 06:28:36AM +0000, Sielck, Jochen wrote:
> what about Updates/Patches through Betatest? Will they be available with SMT-Registration?

We are planning to provide test updates during the beta test, but at the
moment none is in preparation.

Are you interested in a specific update or fix?


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