What is Open Enterprise Server ?
Open Enterprise Server 2018 offers robust network, file, and print services capabilities for your business on the most advanced Linux platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. Provides essential information such as services including networking and file access, print networks, driver deployment, identity-based management, and network connectivity for Windows, Mac, and Linux on customer devices. It allows companies to take advantage of cutting-edge innovations, lower costs and peace of mind.
Main features
Open Enterprise Server offers mission-critical services and features you trust, including:
- Industry-leading file and print services
- NSS: The world is more file-system security-oriented, providing file access to a wider variety of clients, servers, and protocols, protecting against file corruption, and simplifying file sharing between users and applications.
- Micro Focus iPrint: Simplifies the complexity of printer settings and reduces help desk calls, allowing end users to easily locate and install printers.
- Native Active Directory support for file access: Now users in Active Directory can natively access NSS just like eDirectory users with all the traditional benefits of NSS extended to them, including the efficient rights model, self-service file, recovery, and more.
- Storage tier: Reduces total cost storage and makes backup and recovery of critical data easier through built-in storage management capabilities. Tiering is possible for both traditional and on/off-premises systems of cloud storage systems. (Cloud integrated with tiered storage is currently in View.)
- Distributed File Services: Creates a single virtual file system that spans multiple machines, maximizing the use and performance of storage resources and simplifying the location and management of file data.
- NetStorage: Provides secure Internet access to all files and folders stored in Open Enterprise Server.
- POSIX file systems: supports a variety of Linux POSIX file systems.
- Micro Focus Filr: Delivers the best of both worlds, giving centralized IT control over user file storage, while empowering users with easy access to files from any device. It also provides users with a preview of relevant files in their native client.
- Integrated Interoperability
- Domain services for Windows: Simplifies mixed-environment user authentication, eliminates identity storage synchronization and duplication, and provides Microsoft with Active Directory-style authentication for many applications that require this.
- Enhanced client services: Client windows for OES extends OES capabilities by providing a wider range of services, including Micro Focus eDirectory with its authentication, network browsing, service resolution, secure, and reliable file system access.
- Native access to Windows and Mac clients: Facilitates and enhances the file network and printing working from different client environments through the support of various native client access protocols, including AFP and CIFS/SMB with support for self-service file and recovery in Windows and Mac over the SMB protocol.
- Micro Focus Kanaka for Mac: Allows users with Mac workstations to seamlessly connect to their storage resources, with the unique sign-in facility that users' PCs like. Designed for Micro Focus eDirectory, Kanaka for Mac extends the value of directory integration to all business users.
- Identity manager: Synchronizes users' accounts and passwords in a mix of environments and simplifies the identity of management.
- Self-service password reset: The Password Reset self-service is a web-based password management solution that substantially reduces password-related ticket help desk. Users no longer need to verify identity over the phone, reducing password help desk.
- Proven network management
- Micro Focus eDirectory: A full directory service that simplifies, automates and protects information while taking advantage of emerging information and technologies.
- Domain Name System (DNS): Resolves domain names and host names in IP addresses, eliminating the need to use Bind conversion as required on most Linux systems.
- DHCP server: Facilitates the administration system by centrally assigning a server's configuration network instead of configuring them locally on each individual workstation.
- Linux volume manager: allows flexible distribution of hard disk space from various file systems.
- AutoYaST: Enables administrators to automate and speed up the deployment server, facilitate migration efforts, and enjoy more control and flexibility over administrative processes.
- Remote Manager: provides web-based remote systems management.
- Monitoring the health of the server. Displays the overall state of the servers of any web browser at any time.
- Enhanced update utilities: Facilitates updates and migrations with improved health checks, superior error logging, and automatic field population.
- Micro Focus cluster services: Ensure high availability and manageability of critical network resources, including data, applications, server licenses, and services.
- Unified upgrade channel: Take both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Open Updates from the OES Enterprise Server channel, with the confidence that all patches (including SLES patches) are scand in an OES environment before entering your systems.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Advances
- Rich support for the ISV and IHV ecosystem: Leverages the support of all major hardware and software vendors, giving customers the benefit of unlimited choice.
- Optimized for virtualization: Supported to work with hypervisor multiple virtualization, such as customer favorite VMware ESX and xen included hypervisor.
- Containers: Linux containers are great ways to create, deploy, and manage applications. Linux containers and docker project open source container engine are supported in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for your production environments.
- Green innovations: Innovative features and energy-saving capabilities that derive maximum performance per watt, such as idle "Tickless," allowing CPUs to stay in energy-saving states for longer periods.
System Requirements
Any server-class computer that runs with AMD64 or Intel EM64T processors
10 GB of free disk space
2GB minimum
Recommended to have 4 GB, depending on the standards selected for installation and configuration
At least 1 network interface card
