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2SUSE Leadership

SUSE Portfolio and Lifecycle

4Comprehensive Portfolio

5Lifecycle 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

6SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Increaseuptime

Improve operational efficiency

Accelerateinnovation

The advanced foundation for your success

7SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Linux Kernel 3.12 Most recent hardware enablement

Transparent Huge Pages

Scheduler and memory management improvements

Full System Rollback Kernel Live patching ready Open v switch Updated hypervisors KVM 1.4 and

XEN 4.2 Linux Container support (soft

partitioning) and Docker (preview) UEFI Secure Boot

8SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Scalability TodayThe only enterprise Linux OS that helps customers:

Scale with their hardware 8192 CPUs on Intel64 and Itanium

Compute huge amounts of data in memory By supporting 61PiB/64TiB RAM on certified hardware For ERP and data-warehousing

Deploy huge amounts of data By supporting SGI's XFS for filesystem and file sizes up to 8 EiB In the 4th generation of the OS (8+ years)

Btrfs enhancement in snapshot comparison via snapper

9SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Increase Service Availability with ClusteringSUSE 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

Simple Stack Enqueue Replication

DRBD Data Sync HA in Virtual Environments

Sample Use Cases - SAPSUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

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Why SUSE for SAP Applications?

Lower infrastructure costs and improve performance 70% of SAP customers on Linux prefer SUSE

Close Engineering and Technology Partnership with SAP SAP's Software Development Reference Platform for UNIX and Linux

Supports all major SAP Workloads

Proven Platform with Excellent Customer References >4,000 SAP customers run on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Runs SAP HANA and SAP Cloud Solutions

Excedes Mission Critical Application Requirements Joint 24x7 support leveraging SAP Solution Manager

First Linux distributor to certify HA extension for integration with SAP NetWeaver

Validated Best Practices Guides developed with SAP Linux Lab

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SAP and SUSE13+ years of technology and engineering collaboration

Front runner technologies 1st Amazon EC2 OS for SAP

1st validated open source HA

1st validated virtualization

Strategic OS for: SAP HANA

SAP BWA

SAP Business ByDesign

Integrated Enterprise Support

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What is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP?

SAP specific update channel

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

High Availability Extension

Page Cache Limit

18 Months SP Overlap

SUSE Linux Enterprise ServerSUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SAP specific update channelSAP specific additional update channel

SAP Installation Wizard

ClamSAP

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP ApplicationsKey Capabilities

Installation Wizard for OS and SAP installation Simplified installation of Operating System and SAP solution

with minimized manual interaction

Vanilla Operating System installation For custom deployments of SAP solutions

Configuration and package selection based on SAP requirements

Supported Page Cache Feature Allows for better performance of memory intensive

applications with rarely accessed memory pages

Extended Service Pack Overlap Support Extends service pack upgrade window to 18 months

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SAP Installation Wizard

Guided automated installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SAP solution

Operating system pre-configured for SAP solutions

Custom modules can be integrated in the installation workflow

Support for SAP Software Provisioning Manager

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Business Case

4,500 SAP on UNIX customers worldwide Large deployments (~75% of SAP's revenue from UNIX/Linux

customers) Solaris and HP-UX customers with specific concern Linux on x86-64 reduces infrastructure costs by 80% Linux is the only OS with growing market share for SAP

deployments SUSE Linux has approx. 70% market share for SAP on Linux

deployments SUSE Linux provides UNIX-like reliability, availability,

serviceability at a fraction of the cost

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Client Challenge To manage its complex and geographically dispersed business, the company had no packaged solution. As the new ERP environment would be critical to the smooth running of its business, Caf Coffee Day placed great emphasis on selecting the platform to run its SAP software and in backing it with a comprehensive support package

Putting SUSE to work Caf Coffee Day opted to run its SAPERP application on SUSE Linux EnterpriseServer, based on the operating systems price-performance, reliability and scalability.

Make an Impact Improved control over extended supply chain Gained reliable, scalable ERP platform with low cost of ownership Ensured round-the-clock priority support for entire solution stack

Reference: Cafe Coffee Day

SUSE Enterprise Storage

Today's Enterprise Storage Challenges

Constrained by integration and management complexity

Locked to expensive proprietary storage hardware

Driven to improve service-level agreements

Pressured to deliver innovation to the business

Challenged to manage information explosion

Asked to manage flat or declining budgets

SUSE Enterprise Storage

A highly scalable and resilient software based storage solution that enables organizations to build cost-efficient and highly scalable storage using commodity off-the-shelf servers and disk drives. It is self-managing and delivers storage functionality comparable to mid- and high-end storage products at a fraction of the cost. And it's powered by Ceph

SUSE Enterprise StoragePowered by Ceph

Most popular OpenStack distributed storage solution Extensively scalable from gigabytes to petabytes Storage appliance to cost-effective cloud solution Industry-leading storage functionality

Erasure coding for resilience Cache tiering for performance Unified block, file and object interface (File in 2.0) Thin provisioning for capacity optimization Remote replication for business continuity

Built on clustered servers Self healing Self managing

SUSE Enterprise Storage Business Benefits

SAVINGS: Total cost of ownership Reduced CAPEX & OPEX expenditures Ease of management

FLEXIBILITY: Adaptability to evolving business needs Reduced dependency upon proprietary Locked In storage

CONFIDENCE: Reliability and availability Leverage SUSE world-class support and services

LOWFUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

VideoAudio

BigData

BulkStorage

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

Enterprise Data Storage: Use Cases

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

VM-Aware

DRTarget

SUSE Enterprise StorageExamples High Density

High DensityErasure coding for redundancy36-62 drive storage node configuration2 high performance SAS drives34-60 high capacity SATA drives

Storage Appliance Use CaseObject storageRESTful APIs (Swift or Amazon S3)

Storage Solution Use CasesArchive storageIntegrate de-duplication softwareIntegrate backup softwareCompliance archiveIntegrate authenticity/data tampering

HD

LOWFUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

VideoAudio

BigData

BulkStorage

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

StorageStorageApplianceAppliance

StorageStorageSolutionSolution

VM-Aware

DRTarget

HPC

SC

SUSE Enterprise StorageExamples Standard Capacity

Standard Capacity Replicated copies for redundancy8-12 drive storage node configuration2 SSD drives6-10 high capacity SAS/SATA drives

Storage Appliance Use CasesBig Data/Hadoop (CephFS dependency)Bulk storage (not high-performance access)

Storage Solution Use CasesVideo/AudioIntegrate streaming softwareDisk-to-disk backup targetIntegrate de-duplication softwareIntegrate backup softwareDisaster recovery targetIntegrate remote replication software

LOWFUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

VideoAudio

BigData

BulkStorage

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

StorageStorageApplianceAppliance

StorageStorageSolutionSolution

VM-Aware

DRTarget

SC

High Performance Replicated copies for redundancy 6-8 drive storage node configuration 2 SSD drives 6 high performance SAS drives

Storage Appliance Use Cases High performance access Low Latency

Storage Solution Use Cases HPC OLTP CRM ERP

LOWFUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

VideoAudio

BigData

BulkStorage

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

StorageStorageApplianceAppliance

StorageStorageSolutionSolution

VM-Aware

DRTarget

SUSE Enterprise StorageExamples High Performance

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