SUSE and VMwareSUSE and VMware have teamed to provide best-in-class Linux virtualization solutions—on-premise or in private, hybrid and public clouds —that allow you to leverage your investment in VMware tools and solutions to manage the industry’s most interoperable enterprise Linux. Alliance partners since 2004, SUSE and VMware can support your Linux on VMware whether on vSphere, OpenStack or in the VMware vCloud Air public cloud.

SUSE and VMware at a Glance:+ Integrated VMware drivers and tools+ Optimized for SAP applications+ SUSE Cloud OpenStack integrations for

VMware compute, network, storage+ Application-level high availability+ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server available in

vCloud Air+ Operating system of choice for VMware

appliances

Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Cloud SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability

  Extension SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP

  Applications SUSE Manager SUSE Studio

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise ServerSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 comes with integrated tools and drivers to pro-vide the best out-of-the-box experience for a guest operating system on vSphere. Integrated open-vm-tools eliminate the requirement to separately install VMware tools and reduce operational expense and virtual machine downtime. Additional built- in drivers for memory management, com-munications, networking, disk and graph-ics make SUSE Linux Enterprise Ser ver the most optimized operating system for deploying workloads on vSphere. Fur-thermore, SUSE Linux Enterprise Ser ver is a fully tested, certified and supported Linux guest OS for vSphere, and VMware supports new SUSE releases immediately upon general availability.

SUSE Cloud OpenStackSome believe that a choice must be made to use OpenStack or VMware products for deploying cloud infrastructure. Through the seamless integration between SUSE Cloud and VMware vSphere environments you can maximize your current VMware investments, while increasing the flexibility in the design and use of your private cloud. As an enterprise OpenStack distribution, SUSE Cloud incorporates and offers full support for VMware compute, networking and storage OpenStack drivers. VMware vCenter continues the management of the VMware virtual environment while SUSE Cloud manages the overall activities of the private cloud. The SUSE Cloud Ad min-istration Server automates the con nection between SUSE Cloud and a VMware en-vironment, reducing set-up time and in-creasing the productivity of IT operations and the users of the private cloud.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability ExtensionService outages—for even a few seconds— can take a terrible toll on productivity, rev-enue and customer relationships. While VMware HA protects the virtual infrastruc-ture, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availa-bility Extension extends high availability to applications and is an excellent com-plement to VMware HA in mission-critical environments. It uses high availability clus-tering to automate application and data recovery. Services are continuously moni-tored, and when a fault or failure occurs, the workload is transferred from one ser-ver to another, or the application is auto-matically restarted on a known working system. Rather than limiting protection just to those applications that run in Apache Tomcat or Apache HTTP Server,

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension includes resource agents for many third-party and open source appli-cations to protect your data assets and applications and provides scripts for mon-itoring third-party applications or popular open source services.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP ApplicationsMany customers have extended the ben-efits of virtualization—maximizing data center capacity and ensuring the highest levels of availability—to their production SAP environment. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is the only operating system optimized for all mis-sion-critical SAP NetWeaver software so-lutions and appliances. It is based on the

newest SUSE Linux Enterprise technology, a highly reliable, scalable, secure and opti-mized server operating system that is built to power physical, virtual and cloud appli-cations. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is validated and certi-fied by SAP and is the recommended and supported operating system of choice for SAP HANA.

Run Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in vCloud AirVMware vCloud Air is built on vSphere and seamlessly extends your data center into the public cloud using the tools and pro-cesses you already have in your VMware data center. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a fully supported guest operating sys-tem in vCloud Air.

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Foundation for VMware Software AppliancesWhen you deploy a VMware application in a software appliance format, you’re deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the base Linux operating system integrated with VMware software appliances like vCenter and vCenter Operations Manager. These VMware preconfigured appliances facilitate the fast deployment of VMware software, saving you time and money, and provide you with the assurance of a fully tested solution backed by VMware and SUSE en-terprise support.

SUSE ManagerSUSE Manager delivers best-in-class Linux server management capabilities like pro-visioning of virtual guests, software pack-age management, patch management and configuration management. SUSE Manager allows IT professionals to man-age SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in physical, vir-tual and cloud deployments.

SUSE Studio™

SUSE Studio lets you easily create and build images for running on a VMware in-frastructure in your data center or in the cloud. It supports multiple virtualization and cloud formats, including VMware and

OpenStack. It also stores all build-related information as well as the configuration of your application images. At any time, you can reproduce your application image or appliance. Integrated version control and change logging enable reviewing or auditing changes before any application image or appliance moves into produc-tion. Integrated “test drive” functionality allows testing of the application image or appliances before download. Once ap-proved, the application image becomes the baseline for further changes that may be applied in the future. SUSE Studio is the easiest way to rapidly build, configure and deploy your applications on to your VMware environment.

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