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Karthikeyan RTechnology SpecialistSUSE+91 [email protected]

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SUSE® Leadership

SUSE Portfolio and Lifecycle

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Comprehensive Portfolio

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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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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Increaseuptime

Improve operational efficiency

Accelerateinnovation

The advanced foundation for your success

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SUSE 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

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12

Scalability Today

The 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

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12

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

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, Café 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 Café Coffee Day opted to run its SAPERP application on SUSE Linux EnterpriseServer, based on the operating system’s 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


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


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 Density

•Erasure coding for redundancy•36-62 drive storage node configuration•2 high performance SAS drives•34-60 high capacity SATA drives

Storage Appliance Use Case•Object storage•RESTful APIs (Swift or Amazon S3)

Storage Solution Use Cases•Archive storage•Integrate de-duplication software•Integrate backup software•Compliance archive•Integrate authenticity/data tampering

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LOWFUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

VideoAudio

BigData

BulkStorage

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

ComplianceArchive

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StorageStorageApplianceAppliance

StorageStorageSolutionSolution

VM-Aware

DRTarget

HPC

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SUSE Enterprise StorageExamples – Standard Capacity

Standard Capacity •Replicated copies for redundancy•8-12 drive storage node configuration•2 SSD drives•6-10 high capacity SAS/SATA drives

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

Storage Solution Use Cases•Video/Audio•Integrate streaming software•Disk-to-disk backup target•Integrate de-duplication software•Integrate backup software•Disaster recovery target•Integrate remote replication software

LOWFUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

VideoAudio

BigData

BulkStorage

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED




VM-Aware

DRTarget

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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

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VM-Aware

DRTarget

SUSE Enterprise StorageExamples – High Performance

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