SUSE announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3, which features additional industry-standard hardware support and open source features and enhancements. With Service Pack 3, customers can achieve better workload performance in a more scalable, secure and cost-effective manner.
Service Pack 3 can scale up to support even the largest systems. The release supports up to 4,096 logical CPUs and 16TiB of system memory. In addition, support for IBM zEnterprise System zEC12 Flash Express hardware allows access to low latency, high throughput storage and a reduction in SAN traffic.
Service Pack 3 includes commercial support for the latest open in addition, source hypervisors, KVM 1.4 and XEN 4.2. At the same time, Service Pack 3 supports hardware features delivered by the latest processors, to improve the efficiency of virtualized workloads.
"IBM and SUSE have been testing a variety of the new features on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server," said Jean Staten Healy, Director of Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM. "SUSE's upstream community contributions to KVM and Linux, combined with optimizations for IBM systems, can help meet the evolving needs of our clients."
More information about SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 can be found at www.suse.com/sle11sp3. Evaluation copies can be downloaded from www.suse.com/download.