Partner Flyer Virtualization and Cloud Computing
SUSE and VMware
SUSE 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® Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Cloud OpenStack SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 comes Some believe that a choice must be made with integrated tools and drivers to pro- to use OpenStack or VMware products for SUSE and VMware at a Glance: vide the best out-of-the-box experience deploying cloud infrastructure. Through + Integrated VMware drivers and tools for a guest operating system on vSphere. the seamless integration between SUSE + Optimized for SAP applications Integrated open-vm-tools eliminate the Cloud and VMware vSphere environments + SUSE Cloud OpenStack integrations for VMware compute, network, storage requirement to separately install VMware you can maximize your current VMware + Application-level high availability tools and reduce operational expense and investments, while increasing the flexibility + SUSE Linux Enterprise Server available in virtual machine downtime. Additional built- in the design and use of your private cloud. vCloud Air in drivers for memory management, com- As an enterprise OpenStack distribution, + Operating system of choice for VMware munications, networking, disk and graph- SUSE Cloud incorporates and offers full appliances ics make SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support for VMware compute, networking
Products: the most optimized operating system and storage OpenStack drivers. VMware for deploying workloads on vSphere. Fur vCenter continues the management of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Cloud thermore, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server VMware virtual environment while SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability is a fully tested, certified and supported Cloud manages the overall activities of Extension Linux guest OS for vSphere, and VMware the private cloud. The SUSE Cloud Admin SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP supports new SUSE releases immediately istration Server automates the connection Applications upon general availability. between SUSE Cloud and a VMware en- SUSE Manager vironment, reducing set-up time and in- SUSE Studio creasing the productivity of IT operations and the users of the private cloud. Virtualization and Cloud Computing Partner Flyer SUSE and VMware
SUSE Linux Enterprise SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability newest SUSE Linux Enterprise technology, High Availability Extension Extension includes resource agents for a highly reliable, scalable, secure and opti- Service outages—for even a few seconds— many third-party and open source appli- mized server operating system that is built can take a terrible toll on productivity, rev cations to protect your data assets and to power physical, virtual and cloud appli- enue and customer relationships. While applications and provides scripts for mon- cations. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware HA protects the virtual infrastruc itoring third-party applications or popular SAP Applications is validated and certi- ture, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availa open source services. fied by SAP and is the recommended and bility Extension extends high availability supported operating system of choice for to applications and is an excellent com- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SAP HANA. plement to VMware HA in mission-critical for SAP Applications environments. It uses high availability clus Many customers have extended the ben- Run Your SUSE Linux Enterprise tering to automate application and data efits of virtualization—maximizing data Server in vCloud Air recovery. Services are continuously moni- center capacity and ensuring the highest VMware vCloud Air is built on vSphere and tored, and when a fault or failure occurs, levels of availability—to their production seamlessly extends your data center into the workload is transferred from one ser SAP environment. SUSE Linux Enterprise the public cloud using the tools and pro- ver to another, or the application is auto- Server for SAP Applications is the only cesses you already have in your VMware matically restarted on a known working operating system optimized for all mis- data center. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server system. Rather than limiting protection sion-critical SAP NetWeaver software so- is a fully supported guest operating sys- just to those applications that run in lutions and appliances. It is based on the tem in vCloud Air. Apache Tomcat or Apache HTTP Server,
2 Foundation for VMware SUSE Manager OpenStack. It also stores all build-related Software Appliances SUSE Manager delivers best-in-class Linux information as well as the configuration When you deploy a VMware application server management capabilities like pro- of your application images. At any time, in a software appliance format, you’re visioning of virtual guests, software pack- you can reproduce your application image deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. age management, patch management or appliance. Integrated version control SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the base and configuration management. SUSE and change logging enable reviewing or Linux operating system integrated with Manager allows IT professionals to man- auditing changes before any application VMware software appliances like vCenter age SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and image or appliance moves into produc- and vCenter Operations Manager. These Red Hat Enterprise Linux in physical, vir- tion. Integrated “test drive” functionality VMware preconfigured appliances facilitate tual and cloud deployments. allows testing of the application image or the fast deployment of VMware software, appliances before download. Once ap- saving you time and money, and provide SUSE Studio™ proved, the application image becomes you with the assurance of a fully tested SUSE Studio lets you easily create and the baseline for further changes that may solution backed by VMware and SUSE en- build images for running on a VMware in- be applied in the future. SUSE Studio is terprise support. frastructure in your data center or in the the easiest way to rapidly build, configure cloud. It supports multiple virtualization and deploy your applications on to your and cloud formats, including VMware and VMware environment.
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