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SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 & System Z SUSE® Studio On-site & IBM System z Jeff Lindholm [email protected] Technology Sales Specialist, Detroit SUSE Linux Products GmbH Don Vosburg [email protected] Technology Sales Specialist, Detroit SUSE Linux Products GmbH 2 © 2011 The Attachmate Group, Inc. All rights reserved. The all new suse.com 4 Agenda • Overview of SUSE Studio • Demo - Configuration and Building - Testdrive • Questions and Feedback 5 SUSE Linux Enterprise The most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing, both physical and virtual—from the desktop to the data center SUSE® Linux Enterprise Product Lines and Products Server Product Line Desktop Product Line • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server • LibreOffice for System z Virtualization Product Line • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Appliance Product Line Time Extension • • SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension SUSE Studio Online • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point • SUSE Studio Advanced Edition of Service Specialized Support Offers • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Subscription with Expanded Support (for Red Hat migrations) SUSE Manager • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support for SAP CONFIG OS OS APP APP A software application combined with an operating system system operating an with combined application software A designed to run on industry-standard hardware, virtual machine, or machine, virtual hardware, industry-standard on to run designed environment cloud Appliance Defined 8 Appliances Reduce Installation and Support Costs Appliance Integrated, Press play Deployable Simpler complete installation across support and solution platforms maintenance 9 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Ready for Appliances and Cloud Today Buy packaged appliances Or build custom OS images and from Independent turnkey appliances yourself: Software Vendors (ISVs): SUSE Studio SUSE® Studio WebYaST SUSE Lifecycle Onsite Management Server SUSE® Studio SUSE Studio Appliance Toolkit + Customize the OS + Simplify Deployments + Simplify Maintenance Build The SUSE Studio Toolkit is a collection of tools designed to improve the efficiency of Manage building, managing and maintaining software Maintain appliances. http://www.suse.com/product/susestudio Target Audiences Enterprises ISVs SUSE® Linux Enterprise SUSE Appliance Program SUSE® Studio Online Free hosted service that allows fast and easy creation and testing of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server based software appliances http://www.susestudio.com Keeping the Momentum SUSE® Studio SUSE Studio “The 10 SUSE Studio “a product of Coolest 2010 Codie the year” . Open-Source Award Finalist eWeek Products Of . 2009” ChannelWeb 125,000 Registered users are using SUSE Studio Online 700,000 Appliances have been built 5,000 Appliances have been published SUSE® Studio Advanced Edition Build Manage Maintain SUSE Studio Onsite: WebYaST: SUSE Lifecycle Behind firewall Provides YaST Management Server: stand-alone version functionality through Serves updates, of SUSE Studio a web interface includes access control to restrict Kiwi Support: access to repositories, Fully supported, allows for multiple command line scriptable update streams or appliance creation behind channels the firewall, integrates with SUSE Studio 16 SUSE® Studio Fastest, Easiest Way to Create Appliances SUSE Studio Online • Free hosted appliance creation tool • Builds appliance in just a few minutes and with a few clicks • Offers SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 11 SP1, SLE 10 SP4, and openSUSE 11.4 as supported base OS • Minimal version of SUSE Linux Enterprise (JeOS) creates streamlined efficient appliances • Supports 32-bit (ix86) and 64-bit (x86_64) architectures • Output formats include Xen, KVM, VMware, VirtualBox, OVF, Live CD/DVD, Preload ISO, disk images for USB sticks and hard disks, Amazon EC2 • Includes SUSE Gallery for showcasing appliances • Try it out at http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 • Supported, behind-the-firewall and stand-alone version of SUSE Studio • Everything available in Studio Online, plus: • Support for System z images (zFCP and DASD) • Private appliance sharing with specific users • Output PXE/Netboot format for easy data-center deployments 17 SUSE Studio Advanced Edition • Automating many routine and labor-intensive tasks • Fast turnaround time in the image or workload creation process • Single, consistent web-interface to build, manage and deploy workloads across mainframes and x-86 environments as well as physical, virtual and cloud environments • For novices and experts • Boost Mainframe Deployment SUSE Studio Advanced Edition • System z extension for SUSE Studio • Extending the build and update capabilities of SUSE Studio to IBM System z platform ‒ Provide base System z templates ‒ Tailored for System z configuration ‒ Easy to use web interface reduces the complexity of creating System z images • Ability to test and debug the System z images before deploying ‒ Test Drive allows testing of images, modify and rebuild ‒ Saves time in the development cycle Build with KIWI Scriptable command line tool that builds software images from a description file. The core image creation engine integrated into SUSE® Studio. Automated build tools, as a KIWI script can be called to create new appliances automatically when a new build is available. KIWI is provided free to the community. 21 22 Revision Management - Version cloning • Branched appliance development 23 Maintain with SUSE® Lifecycle Management Server Streamlines the update and maintenance of software appliances. Monitor and maintain software appliances throughout their lifetimes. Manage with WebYaST Web-based management interface for full visibility into the configuration, health and performance of your SUSE® Linux Enterprise Configuration of software appliances (Modules include: storage, bootloader, timezone, software appliance management updates, user management, hardware customization) Administration of installed system (Modules include: Status, soft-shutdown, reboot, monitoring, license/EULA and registration, service start/stop/status) 25 WebYast Web based System Management Interface SUSE® Manager Modular Approach SUSE Manager delivers complete lifecycle management for Linux servers through its management, provisioning, and monitoring modules 27 © The Attachmate Group, Inc. Demo Architecture Questions & Feedback Unpublished Work of SUSE. All Rights Reserved. This work is an unpublished work and contains confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information of SUSE. Access to this work is restricted to SUSE employees who have a need to know to perform tasks within the scope of their assignments. No part of this work may be practiced, performed, copied, distributed, revised, modified, translated, abridged, condensed, expanded, collected, or adapted without the prior written consent of SUSE. Any use or exploitation of this work without authorization could subject the perpetrator to criminal and civil liability. General Disclaimer This document is not to be construed as a promise by any participating company to develop, deliver, or market a product. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. SUSE makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents of this document, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. The development, release, and timing of features or functionality described for SUSE products remains at the sole discretion of SUSE. Further, SUSE reserves the right to revise this document and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. All SUSE marks referenced in this presentation are trademarks or registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Appendix Maintain with SUSE® Lifecycle Management Server Update and maintenance of deployed software appliances. Unified update mechanism, federating updates for all components of the appliance. Repository management, staging repositories support for quality assurance Authentication, entitlement and access control required to distribute updates. Management of essential customer data, interface to CRM systems 34 Screenshots - Building 36 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 37 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 38 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 39 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 40 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 41 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 42 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 43 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 44 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 45 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 46 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 47 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 48 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 49 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 50 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 51 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. Screenshots - Testdrive 53 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 54 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 55 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 56 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 57 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 58 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. Screenshots - Sharing 60 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 61 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. Screenshots - Gallery 63 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 64 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 65 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. Screenshots – Amazon EC2 67 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 68 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 69 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 70 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. End.
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