[sles-beta] What's new in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4

[Frederic Crozat]

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