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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

Leverage the Power of Linux on vSphere


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Agenda

VMware industry leader

Customer challenges

What is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

The Offer

Why Choose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

Next Steps: Activating your SUSE Linux Enterprise Serverfor VMware entitlement

Resources


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VMware The Proven Market Leader

Company Overview

~$2 B in 2009 revenue

~7,000 employees worldwide

5th largest infrastructure SWcompany

Proven in the Trenches

150,000+ VMware Customers

100% of Fortune 100

100% of Fortune Global 100

96% of Fortune 1000

95% of Fortune Global 500


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Gartner: VMware is the Clear Market Leader

VMware is clearly ahead in:

Understanding the market

Product strategy

Business model

Technology innovation, Product capabilities

Sales execution

VMware Strengths:

Far-reaching virtualization strategyenabling cloud computing, new application

architectures and broader management

Technology leadership and innovation

High customer satisfaction Large installed base (especially Global

2000), and rapid growth of service

providers planning to use VMware (vCloud)

VMware stands alone as aleader in this Magic Quadrant


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Todays IT Complex, Inefficient, Inflexible

Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers

Cause

Overwhelming complexity

Reliance on brittle infrastructure

Effect

>70% of IT budgets justmaintaining status quo


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Our Mission is Your Mission

Reduce the Complexity

Dramatically Lower Costs

Enable Flexible, Agile IT Service Delivery

SLES for VMware helps on all fronts of our mission


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Virtualization Changes the Economics of Computing

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The Genesis of Cloud Computing


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Cloud Computing is an approach, not a destination

Cloud Computing is an approach to computingthat leverages the efficient poolingof on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.

Pooling

From machines to on-demand,

highly elastic resource pools

Zero-touch Infrastructure

Policy-driven automation of

provisioning, deployment and

management

Self-Service

Easy access with policy-

based provisioning anddeployment

Control

Application-aware

infrastructure with built-inavailability, scalability, security

and performance guarantees

Open & Interoperable

Application mobility between

clouds, based on openstandards

Leverage Existing

Investments

Benefits of cloud computing toexisting applications and

datacenters

Efficiency thru Utilizationand Automation

Agility with Control Freedom of Choice


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Private Cloud: The New Foundation For All Enterprise IT

vSphere

Redwood

vCenter

The VMware

Private Cloud

DesktopSoftware

as a Service

Application

PlatformIT as a ServiceInfrastructure IT as a Service


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VMware Industry Leader vSphere for cloud computing

Cloud computing is the emerging model that breaks ITs ever-increasing complexity and costs that end up consuming 70% - 80%of IT budgets just to keep the status quo running.

Virtualization is the foundation upon which cloud computingarchitectures are and will be built because virtualization is the onlytechnology that offers an evolutionary path to cloud computing.

VMware vSphere is the industrys leading and only robust

virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures.

Leveraging VMwares industry-leading technology and experience,VMware vSphere delivers agility with uncompromised control in themost efficient manner, while fully preserving customer choice.


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An Enterprise Linux OS with vSphere at no cost

As a data center professional, your on-going challenge is to

provide fast and secure access to core business applications,systems and data.

You need a reliable, high-performance server operating systemthat cost-effectively delivers critical business services.

With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware you can deploysuch operating system in your VMware vSphere environments at nocost.

Plus you can now have one line of support from VMware by

purchasing our support offering for your SUSE Linux EnterpriseServer for VMware


Leverage the Power of Linux on vSphere


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VMwares Offer for Enterprise Linux on vSphere

VMware vSphere customers receive SUSE Linux Enterprise Server forVMware at no additional cost!

Qualified vSphere customers with active VMware SnS contracts are entitled to SUSELinux Enterprise Server for VMware (SLES for VMware)

SLES for VMware comes with free subscription to patches and updates at no additionalcost

Ability to run as many VMs per host as you want

Why purchase another OS when you can get an enterprise Linux solution at no cost withvSphere?

Purchase technical support for Linux directly from VMware

A single source for support of the the combined VMware vSphere and SUSE LinuxEnterprise Server solution from VMwares Global Support Services for your virtualmachines.

Support is available at both Basic (12x5) and Production (24x7) levels

To purchase VMware technical support of SLES for VMware:

visit the VMware Store @ www.vmware.com/go/buyslesforvmwaresupport

call a VMware representative at 1-877-4VMWARE (1-877-486-9273). Outside of North America,please dial 1-650-427-5000.


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Industry proven enterprise Linux operatingsystem

Based on Novell SUSELinux Enterprise Server

Recommended by application ISVs includingSAP Oracle and IBM

Supported by over 5,000 applications

Accelerates the evolutionto a fully virtualized

datacenter

Entitlement with orders as of June 9th, 2010 No additional cost

Delivered as part ofVMware vSphere

With a paid, separate, support agreementSupported by VMware

Global Support Services


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Benefits of SLES for VMware

Proven enterprise Linux operating system at no cost VMware provides free subscription to patches and updates to qualified customers

Lower cost of ownership

Most extensive application support among any enterprise Linux operating with over 5,000 applicationscertified

Broad application support

Up to date support and certification for applications as well as a high degree of interoperability amongsupported platforms

Lower risk

Ability to run as many SLES for VMware virtual machines as you want on every qualified VMwarevSphere host

Improved IT agility

Proven reliability and high-performance of an enterprise Linux operating system

Enterprise level capabilities

Purchase technical phone support delivered directly from VMware

More efficient support


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SLES for VMware accelerates the journey to cloud

KeyBenefits

Efficiency Thru Utilization and Automation - SLES for

VMware provides customers with a proven enterprise Linux

operating system, at no additional cost, with their vSphere

subscription. Customers have the opportunity to drive even

greater ROI and operational efficiency when they obtain support

for the OS directly from VMware s Global Support Services.

Agility with Control SLES for VMware is based on a

proven enterprise Linux operating system, SUSE Linux

Enterprise Server 11, and therefore delivers the highest levels of

reliability, scalability and performance and is a proven choice to

run any type of application including mission critical and Tier-1

in a VMware virtual environment.

Freedom of Choice - Based on SUSE Linux EnterpriseServer 11, SLES for VMware offers the broadest applicationsupport among enterprise Linux operating systems with over5,000 application certifications.


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Why Choose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

The most scalable and high performing Linuxoperating system reliable and secure

Interoperability with UNIX- and Windows-Systems

Reference platform for enterprise applications,including SAP

Optimized to run on VMware vSphere

Built-in systems management provides ITwith more choices and greater flexibility


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Ready for Your Mission Critical Applications

SLES for VMware is ideally suited for mission-critical workloadsthat require outstanding reliability, performance and scalability, aswell as other server workloads.

Target workloads include:

SAP applications

Other ERP, CRM and enterprise business applications, including Oracle applications

JEE applications and the underlying middleware infrastructures offered by IBM,Oracle, SAP, Hitachi and others

Enterprise database environments, such as Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL,MySQL, ADABAS, InterBase and others

NET-based applications

Other custom and legacy enterprise applications

IT infrastructure Web, network and storage infrastructure


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SUSE Linux EnterpriseThe Preferred Linux Platform for SAP Applications

SUSE Linux Enterprise is the only Linux platform SAPrecommends for its customers

Market leader with 75 percent market share of SAP on Linux, with

more than 1,000 customers Joint development and support of virtualization solutions involving

SAP applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise is the only operating system that runs

SAP's Business Warehouse Accelerator.

First Linux high availability solution for SAP applications in avirtualized environment.

Novell received the SAP Pinnacle Award in the category

Technology: Co-Innovation for Core Business.


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How to get started with SLES for VMware

Purchasequalifyingedition of

vSphere

Activate thesubscriptionto patches

for SLES forVMware

DownloadSLES forVMware

www.vmware.com/go/downloadslesf

orvmware

Create asmany VMs

as you need

Purchasetechnicalsupport


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Next Steps: Activate your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server forVMware Entitlement

Customers entitled to SLES for VMware will receive an email from VMware

including the activation code to obtain the subscription to patches and

updates to SLES for VMware at no cost

To activate the subscription the code must be registered in a Novell portal:

If you are a Novell customer and you have a Novell account go to www.novell.com/register to

activate your subscription

If you are not an existing Novell customer, do not have Novell account, go to

www.vmware.com/go/activateslesforvmware to register and activate your subscription (Note: you

will be redirected to a Novell site)

To download SLES for VMware go to

www.vmware.com/go/downloadslesforvmware (Note: you will be redirected to a Novell site)

Got questions? Contact VMware Support www.vmware.com/support/us_support.html


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Resources and contacts

SLES for VMware website: www.vmware.com/go/slesforvmware Press release: www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/novell-vmw-partnership.html

Email Sandi Terry, [email protected] Sr. Director for Emerging Products or contact yourlocal VMware representative or partner.

VMware Store @ www.vmware.com/go/buyslesforvmwaresupport Call a VMware representative at 1-877-4VMWARE (1-877-486-9273). Outside of North

America, please dial 1-650-427-5000


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Appendix


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The Value of Linux on vSphere

Lowers Costs Designed for MissionCritical workloads

Reliability, &Performance & Usability

SLES providesadvanced memorymanagement andprocessor support,multi-pathing, and I/Ocapabilities, coupledwith support for highspeed interconnects

and multi-threaded filesystems. Ideal choicesfor high performancecomputing

Includes familiaradministration toolsthat provide excellentusability

A robust platform formission-critical

workloadsProvides rock-solidreliability andavailability for mission-critical deployments

Recommended byapplication ISV such asSAP Oracle and IBMapplications

Supported by 5,000+

certified independentsoftware vendor (ISV)applications

Customers routinelysave 50 to 80% on

hardware license andmaintenance feeswhen migrating fromolder RISC-basedsystems to modernx86, POWER, Itanium

Consolidateoperations on feweroperating systems andserver platforms in

order to reduce themanagementcomplexity and costsassociated with runningmultiple platforms.

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