SLES 11 released

Good news for SLES fans. The next major release of the product was released today. Together with SLES 11 was released enterprise-ready desktop SLED 11. Other two new products were announced as well:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension - the products integrates clustering filesystem OCFS2, cluster-aware volume manger cLVM2, distributed replicated block device DRBD and Pacemaker Cluster Stack with OpenAIS messaging and member layer. Included DRBD version 8 supports active-active replication.
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension - the product provides open-source cross-platform .NET framework.

What other benefits does SLES 11 bring? As you could see above, it is more modular. Some features were bundled into separate products. The next follow:

• it is based on GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.27
• in addition to AppArmor, it is SELinux ready
• it provides OFED 1.4 (more about it here)
  
• package management is based on fast update stack ZYpp
• SLES 11 is greener - it supports tickless idle which is able to leave CPU in saving stake longer or it provides more granular power profiles
• it supports swapping over NFS for diskless clients
• it supports partitioning multiprocessor machine by CPUset System
  
• virtualization layer is based on Xen 3.3
• it is optimised for hypervisors VMware ESX, MS Hyper-V and Xen
  
• default filesystem is EXT3
• it supports kexec, kdump or SystemTap
• it contains many other enhancements of asynchronous I/O, MPIO, NFS or iSCSI

The official product documentation isn't available yet. The release notes are here.