Novell will lead the dance

I’m really looking forward to the following upcoming releases from Novell:

http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/systemsmanagement/

The main idea behind this tool is to have 1 interface which can be used to manage and monitor all your systems (virtual and physical).

With the virtual machine management part it will be possible to manage your virtual machines , not only Xen but also VMware or the Microsoft virtualisation solution. Dynamic workload management should also be in it! Virtual Machines will just be a cluster resource and it will no longer matter where (on which physical machine) it is running as well as all the applications in the vm.

(xen vms as a cluster resources in heartbeat2 is already possible with the current sles10)

The second release which will be interesting is the OES2 release. OES stands for Open Enterprise.

http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1244&locale=en_US

This is actually the Novell product stack which is running on top of a Netware or a Linux kernel. Mainly file and print services. You can compare it to the old Netware servers.
There was already an OES1 in the past but there were still some issues with it which made it not as stable as his Netware brother, so I have high expectations.Main difference between OES1 and OES2 is offcourse that OES2 is built on top of SLES10 while OES1 is built on top of SLES9

December 7th, 2006 - Posted in Novell, SLES | | 0 Comments