Embracing a Hybrid StrategySUSE in the Public Cloud

Ng Hak Beng, Sales Engineer Manager

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“Provide our customers with the best experience using SUSE products on

the Public Cloud.”

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The SUSE public cloud business can be broken up into three major categories • Image support for existing public cloud business • Portfolio expansion within the public cloud • Support for CSP driven infrastructure enhancements

Image support for existing public cloud business

Supports growth based on CSP absorption of workloads

Support for CSP expansion

New data centersNew instance typesImprovements to their platform

Portfolio expansion within the public cloud

Grow the products that customers can use in the public cloud

SUSE Public Cloud Engineering

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65Images

Global CSP Alliance Partners

2Architecturesx86_64, ARM

5offers

Product Offerings By The Numbers

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Product On-Demand BYOS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

SUSE Manager

SUSE CaaS Platform

SUSE Cloud Application Platform

What’s available in the Public Cloud?

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On Demand• Fire up and use.

• Pay as you go, for the time that the instance is running.

• Support initially provided by CSP. SUSE and CSP work closely together.

• Repositories automatically configured.

• Updates via region local infrastructure.

BYOS• Easily migrate your existing subscriptions to

select SUSE Certified Public Cloud Service Providers.

• Direct access to SUSE Support.Transfer the benefits of your current subscription, including your level of SUSE support, to your workloads running in a public cloud.

• Patching: Uses SUSE Customer Center or you can provide your own local update infrastructure.

• Provides the ability to purchase add-on (Live patching etc.)

On-Demand and BYOS

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Your Security in Mind3-month Image Rolling Update for PAYG images

May June July Aug NovSept

SLES Image 1.0

Dec Jan

SLES Image 1.1

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SLES Image 1.0

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Region Server• Maps guest instance to region• Hands out update server Info

SMT/RMT Server• Provides region local updates• No network charges• Low latencies

Region

Cloud FrameworkRegionServer

GuestInstance

UpdateServer

Region Local Update Infrastructure (PAYG)

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32regions

8Regionservers 122

SMT servers

19regions

8Regionservers 76

SMT servers

18regions

6Regionservers 72

SMT servers

Update Infrastructure By The Numbers

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SLES HPC• Available on-demand.• RDMA drivers and Infiniband supported

for enhanced server and storage connectivity and advanced I/O processing.

• First supported Linux HPC solution on Microsoft Azure.

Azure CLI• Enables Linux users to manage

Microsoft Azure public cloud services from the command line.

• Azure Python SDK and CLI Packages available in SUSE Public Cloud Module.

Kernel Azure• Kernel tuned specifically for Microsoft

Azure.• SLES and SLES for HPC include kernel-

azure by default.

SUSE + Microsoft Azure

SUSE Best practices (SAP)• Co-developed with Microsoft and SUSE.• Provide a number of ways to deliver HA

concepts in Azure.• Provide resource templates to easily

deploy SAP workloads.

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SUSE HAE Best practices• EC2 Fencing and Move IP Agent

included• Numerous best practice guides for

deploying SAP co-developed with SUSE

SSM Agent• Package available in

SUSE Public Cloud module.

AWS CLI• Package available in

SUSE Public Cloud module.

SUSE + Amazon Web Services

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• Move your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server workload between on-premise and private and public clouds.

• Supported on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack and local/regional Cloud Service Providers.

• Flexibility to run your workload where you want, when you want, with the right tools to make it work well.

My Kind of Flexibility

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Technology Spotlight: SAP Clusters in the Public Cloud - Ease of Deployment

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Ease of deployment of SLES for SAP workloads in Azure.• Simple to configure• Easy to Run• Customizable

Value• Repeatable deployments• Perfect for test/dev workloads• Documented installation

HANA Node 1 HANA Node 2 iscsi Server

Azure HA Set

Load Balancer

SBD Disk

HANA System Replication

Technology Highlight

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*Potentially days of effort.

AzureResource Group

Virtual Network

Subnets

Availability Set

Load Balancers

NIC Cards

VMs

Data Disks

Service Principle

File Share (SAP Media)

Setup NFS

AWSVPC

Subnets

Availability Zones

Instances

EBS Volumes

IAM Roles

S3 Bucket (SAP Media)

Setup NFS (EFS)

SUSEConfiguration

Install Additional Software

Update

LVM Layout

Filesystems

FSTAB

Create ClusterFencing / Rules etc

Install SAP Software

Steps to build a SAP Infrastructure Public Cloud

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• Get the right baseline infrastructure

• Minimize setup time for the infrastructure

• Simplifed Sizing (T-Shirt)

Jointly Engineered Solution Templatesfor SAP Landscapes on Azure Built on Microsoft’s Best Practice Architecture

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AWS Quick Start: Multi-AZ, single node SAP HANA

Production ready: Deployed in minutes https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/sap-hana/

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Terraform and SaltOur engineering goal: Improved user experience for our SAP customers.

Fast and secure way to deploy your SUSE HANA Cluster in minutes or hours instead of days.

Customizable and modular “blocks” allowing customers to reuse it and adjust for their specific needs on premises, in clouds or hybrid-clouds.

It can be integrated into existing solutions like SUSE Manager or existing Terraform and Salt.

https://github.com/SUSE/ha-sap-terraform-deployments/projects

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Terraform Variables

Instance Size

Image

Storage / File Share

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