SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12 Customer Presentation

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Questions That IT is Facing Today

• Am I able to guarantee service availability for my organization?

• What if my developers need the latest tools?

• We need to buy new hardware. How can I ensure my OS works with it before purchasing deadline?

• How to make sure we are prepared for cloud?

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Increaseuptime

Improve operational efficiency

Accelerateinnovation

The advanced foundation for your success

Increase Uptime

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Downtime is More Than Just Lost Revenue

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Increase Uptime and Meet SLAs

• Minimize planned and unplanned downtime; help meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

• Protect your mission-critical workloads

HighAvailability & Geo

RAS

LivePatching

SystemRollback

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Exploiting Hardware RAS

Reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) were traditional UNIX features, now available and mature on Linux.

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Improve Resiliency: Full System Rollback

• Rollback to a good state with one click for faster recovery from planned or unplanned downtime

• Support for service pack rollback

• Support for kernel upgrade

• Based on btrfs and Snapper, bootloader integration

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Increase Service Availability with Clustering

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension– Quickly and easily install, configure and manage clustered

Linux servers

– Increase service availability for mission-critical systems and data

– Transparent to Virtualization – nodes can be virtual, physical or mixed! Integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

– Meet Service Level Agreements

Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

– Business continuity, anywhere in the world

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Zero Interruption:Ready for Live Patching

Ready for SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching– Kernel live patching infrastructure built-in

– Works with zero execution interruption

Use Cases

https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/need-kgraft-2/

In-memory Database

(SAP HANA)

Mission-critical Infrastructure

Services

Simulation Un-interrupted

Massive, Time-critical Deployment

Improve Operational Efficiency

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Improve Operational Efficiency

Deploy anywhere Made for cloud Application containers

Maximize Output Reduce management cost

with easy-to-use tools Protect existing investment

with interoperability

Minimize Cost

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Easy-to-Use Tools

Local system management– YaST and AutoYaST: now in Ruby, more open for

customization

– Wicked: making it easy to manage ever-complicated network configuration such as vLan, virtualization, bridging, IPv6, etc.

– Improved installation workflow

– Interactive as well as unattended upgrade (offline, in place) on all architectures

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Interoperability

• VMware tools integration

• SAMBA4 ,server-side copy improvements

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager integration with SUSE Manager

VMware

Microsoft

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Flexible Building and Deployment

Existing system

Base OS image

Your Project

KIWIKIWI engine of SUSE

Studio

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TestYaST / AutoYast Deployment

System inspection

Report

Public Cloud Module

Advanced Systems Management

Module

Base OS image

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Made for the CloudH

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Available in Public Clouds

Dual Hypervisor Support&

Containers Cloud Hosts

Perfect Guest

Gu

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In the CloudsIn Your Data Center

Accelerate Innovation

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Accelerate Innovation

Easy access to new versions of open source software

Fast access to partner innovations

Reduce time to value with SUSE ecosystem

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Modules: An Easier Way to Get New Enhancements• Easier access to the latest updates

• Different lifecycles, ranging from continuous integration to three years

• Fully maintained and supported

• Included in subscription without additional cost

• Five optional modules besides base OS

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Modules: A Closer Look

Module Name Content Lifecycle

Web and Scripting Module “PHP”, “Python”, “Ruby on Rails”

3 years, 18 months overlap

Legacy Module Sendmail, old IMAP stack, old Java, etc. 3 years

Public Cloud Module Public cloud initialization code and tools

Continuous integration

Toolchain Module GCC Yearly delivery

Advanced Systems Management Module

cfengine, puppet and the new "machinery" tool

Continuous integration

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Advanced Systems Management Module – Machinery

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SUSE SolidDriver Program: Same-Day Hardware Enablement

New Hardware

Server

Workloads

SUSE SolidDriver Program

- Tools- Specs- ProcessHardware

Vendor

Kernel Drivers

- Uniform- Consistent- Proven- Compatible

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More Choices: Broad Ecosystem

• Intel 64 / AMD64• POWER8 LE• System z

Yes!certifications

Thousands of ISV applications

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Pilot in Enterprise Innovations

• Linux kernel 3.x since 2012 (now 3.12)

• 12 years on XFS

• Commercially support btrfs since 2012, now as the default file system for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

• Commercially support Linux Containers since 2012

• Docker included (Technical Preview)

Base OS Lifecycle

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Lifecycle and Code Streams

• 13-year lifecycle for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 and 12

• 10 years general support

• +3 years long-term support

Tentative – Dates subject to change

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12Long Term Service Pack Support for every service pack

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

SLE10

SLE 11

SLE 12

SP4

SP2 SP3 SP4

SP1GA

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Lifecycle Model

10 years lifecycle + 3 years Extended Support

13-year lifecycle (10 years general support, 3 years extended support)

Long Term Service Pack Support available for all versions, including GA

General Support Extended Support

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Year 13

GA LTSS

SP1 LTSS

SP2 LTSS

SP3 LTSS

SP4 LTSS

Tentative – Dates subject to change

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Increaseuptime

Improve operational efficiency

Accelerateinnovation

The advanced foundation for your success

Thank you.

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