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Product Flyer Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE You don’t have to spend more for management and software or increase power and floor space requirements to get the data center you need. With SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE, we offer an alternative platform to x86 platforms for virtualizing Linux, UNIX and Windows workloads. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE will help you leverage the resiliency of IBM Z servers while you lower costs, reduce complexity and downtime, and mitigate risk across your enterprise. • Solution: Respond to Today’s Business Needs Today need to be able to provision new servers Enterprise Linux Servers You need to reduce data center costs; and add new software programs in minutes • Product: however, you also need to become more and hours, not days and weeks. You can do + SUSE Linux Enterprise Server competitive and provide more services this with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for for IBM Z and LinuxONE + SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for your customers, which means you IBM Z and LinuxONE running in a virtualiza- Starter System for IBM Z need more compute capacity. The typical tion environment on an IBM Z server—while + SUSE Manager + SUSE Studio response to these challenges is to add reducing total cost of ownership, simplify- more hardware servers to handle the ing data center complexity and increasing required workloads. Adding new physical flexibility. servers to your data center, while giving you the capacity you need, can take weeks “Running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for and increase management, licensing and IBM Z and LinuxONE really gives us peace hardware costs, as well as power and floor of mind. We get the benefits of open space requirements. It can also result in systems technology with all its flexibility low server utilization (usually in the 5–15 combined with high availability and high percent range), driving up your total cost performance of the mainframe platform.” of ownership. BERND BOHNE This server sprawl drains your budget, mak- Department Head, Central Systems ing it difficult to respond to business de- Technology mands quickly. To remain competitive, you Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG, Sparda Bank SUSE.com SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 2020 for IBM Z and LinuxONE Simplify With an Industry-Leading Server Consolidation REDUCE TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP Platform The cost of running your data center includes hardware, soft- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE offers ware licenses, floor space, power, system administrators and you an alternative to x86 platforms for consolidating servers many other factors—all of which add up quickly. However, and virtualizing Linux, UNIX and Windows workloads. When what may be costing your data center the most is server you choose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and sprawl. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE LinuxONE you are leveraging the resiliency of IBM Z servers, is a powerful product that enables you to consolidate many the power of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and workloads onto a single server. IBM Z servers generally re- LinuxONE and the hypervisor capabilities of z/VM or KVM quire only about 20 percent of the floor space and power to create a virtual environment that lowers total cost of that equivalent capacity x86 servers require. ownership and simplifies data center management while increasing flexibility and reducing downtime. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE, the cost of running incremental workloads on IBM Z servers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE allows goes down as the total workload grows, while the cost goes you to run Linux applications in a virtualized environment up linearly for distributed systems with added workloads. You on IBM Z servers, consolidating servers and workloads to do not have to acquire new hardware, purchase new operat- simplify management and reduce costs. ing system subscriptions and new software licenses as you add workloads on new virtual machines. For some workloads, As the market share leader in Linux mainframe technology, you may reach a threshold at which the cost of adding new SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE workloads on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and enables you to access the largest number of open source LinuxONE virtual machines drops to virtually zero. and proprietary applications and take advantage of the best technical support in the industry. We work closely with IBM “With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and to implement customerrequested enhancements. When you LinuxONE, the cost of running incremental workloads deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE, on IBM Z servers goes down as the total workload you can take advantage of these enhancements to: grows. The cost goes up linearly for distributed systems with added workloads. As you add more and • Reduce total cost of ownership more workloads to run on SUSE Linux Enterprise • Simplify data center complexity Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE virtual machines, the • Increase business agility average cost per workload drops.” Server Consolidation SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE Mainframe Distributed Systems SUSE.com SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 2020 for IBM Z and LinuxONE SIMPLIFY DATA CENTER COMPLEXITY IBM Z server operating systems such as z/VM and z/OS If your data center is like most others, it has multiple types provide sophisticated workload and resource management of operating system platforms and architectures in use at capabilities that allow a wide variety of workloads to be any given time; they are stored in various forms with cables scheduled and run without intervention. You can move many running everywhere. Additionally, chances are good that you kinds of workloads onto SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for acquired these systems from many different vendors, so IBM Z and LinuxONE virtual machines. Resources are shared you must maintain several hardware and software licensing across the virtual machines and the workloads are sched- agreements. You must also hire system administrators with uled by IBM Z workload management software. This is in varying backgrounds to maintain the various hardware and contrast to standalone Linux and Windows servers that can software systems. All these issues contribute to data center run only single workloads and provide little resource sharing. complexity. You can simplify using server consolidation with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE in a Modernize Your Data Center virtualized environment. You can consolidate many workloads SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE allows onto a single IBM Z server, reducing the number of hardware you to run Linux applications in a virtualized environment to vendors and software licenses that you must maintain. lower costs and increase compute capacity and flexibility. Then, after consolidation, you can manage your Linux virtual These advanced technologies enable you to access open machines on IBM Z servers with mainframe tools, as well source applications, address infrastructure simplification as systems management tools integrated with SUSE Linux issues, simplify management and save on software licensing. Enterprise (like YaST® and AutoYaST), or additional products We deliver these industry-leading benefits using: like SUSE Manager, greatly simplifying management tasks such as backups, updates and patches. Running Linux on • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE. IBM Z servers also simplifies software license maintenance SUSE has tailored this powerful Linux operating system and makes it less costly because a single software license for mainframes by working closely with IBM to include can be shared across all Linux virtual machines that use the enhancements requested by IBM customers and to en- licensed software. sure that it supports many of the ISV applications. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE con- INCREASE BUSINESS AGILITY tains modifications to seamlessly run on the IBM Z hard- Your success relies on your ability to respond to changing ware and to work with the z/VM and KVM virtualization user demands and market requirements. To maintain a technologies. competitive edge, you must make these changes quickly— • SUSE Manager. SUSE Manager delivers best-in-class and changes frequently take the form of a new server or Linux server management capabilities, like automated an existing server being provisioned with new workloads. software management, system provisioning and moni- Workload availability is key to maintaining systemwide agility. toring. It enables customers to easily manage Linux server deployments across physical, virtual and cloud Running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE environments, decreasing total cost of ownership while on IBM Z servers offers you the flexibility you need to meet improving compliance and service quality. SUSE Manager your organization’s business demands. If you choose SUSE can also manage Linux virtual machines on IBM Z and Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE, you can can be hosted on mainframes. benefit from the large application portfolio available on it, • SUSE Studio™. SUSE Studio delivers the fastest and including a growing set of server and middleware products easiest way to build, configure and maintain portable and and open source applications. With SUSE Linux Enterprise cloud-enabled application stacks, thereby reducing the Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE in a z/VM environment, you complexity, maintenance and support costs of software can provision new servers and virtual SUSE Linux Enterprise deployments. SUSE Studio is the only available tool that Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE servers in seconds and min- combines the creation of application images or software utes. z/VM is able to spawn a new SUSE Linux Enterprise appliances for x86 and mainframe environments. SUSE Server for IBM Z and LinuxONE virtual server with the security Studio eases the migration between the various IT envi- and reliability inherent in the mainframe.