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SUSE Linux Enterprise The First and Best Linux for IBM Highlights of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER at a Power Systems Server for POWER include the abil- Glance: ity to: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for • Increase reliability and reduce costs POWER provides customers with an • Increase reliability and reduce for missioncritical applications... with advanced RAS capabilities opti- enterprisegrade costs for mission-critical ap- mized to support IBM Power Systems optimized for IBM POWER proces- plications with advanced RAS features sor-based systems. It is designed capabilities that are optimized • Deliver a high-performance plat- to deliver increased reliability, re- to support IBM Power Systems form to meet increasing business duce costs for mission-critical features demands… with improved application perfor- applications, provide a high-per- • Deliver a high-performance mance and instant access to data formance platform to meet in- platform to meet increasing

• Accelerate innovation and improve creasing business demands and business demands with im- deployment times... accelerate innovation while im- proved application performance for a broad choice of open source proving deployment times. SUSE and instant access to data and partner solutions Linux Enterprise Server for POWER • Accelerate innovation and was the first Linux distribution op- improve deployment times with timized for IBM Power Systems, support for POWER9 Little Endian and the first to run in POWER9 base Mode (ppc64le) for a broad mode. choice of open source and part- ner solutions

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Increase Reliability and Reduce Costs for Deliver a High-Performance platform to Mission-Critical Applications Meet Increasing Business Demands SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER de- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER livers advanced Reliability, Availability and complements IBM Power Systems features Serviceability (RAS) capabilities optimized that improve application performance and to support IBM Power Systems for increased deliver fast access to critical business data. reliability and lower costs. This includes the ability to configure shared resource pools to Support for eight threads per core (SMT8) control resource allocation of CPU, memory maximizes POWER9 processor perfor- and I/O. Maximizing utilization of hardware mance across the full range of Power Sys- resources with memory error recovery and tems servers as well as OpenPOWER Ab- memory sharing reduces hardware costs. straction Layer (OPAL) systems. POWER10 mode is fully supported when POWER10 SAP Basis administrators can reduce the processor-based systems are available. time to reload inmemory data after system reboots with persistent memory support for Extended virtual address space up to 4 IBM PowerVM®-based Virtual PMEM. petabytes provides the infrastructure for future application growth. SAP HANA da- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER ful- tabases greater than 32 TB are supported ly supports the SUSE Linux Enterprise High with IBM PowerVM, reducing the number of Availability Extension to ensure compliance system reboots after memory fragmenta- with requirements to minimize downtime of tion. business applications. Full system rollback also provides rapid recovery from unex- Shared Processor LPAR (SPLPAR) statis- pected system update errors. tics and multi-threading for supportconfig on high end POWER systems enables im- SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching is in- proved performance tuning and problem cluded with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server determination. for POWER Unlimited VMs subscriptions to eliminate downtime for patching security SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER de- vulnerabilities and stability issues in the livers reduced latency through wire-speed Linux kernel. System administrators can messaging to fast I/O storage systems im- apply an unlimited number of patches proves application and platform perfor- without restarting the affected LPARs for up mance. to one year.

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Fast memory initialization reduces large- infrastructure enabling easy and secure memory server reboot times following collaboration for creating containerized planned and unplanned downtime. applications. This includes integrating container applications with cloud de- Support for Non-Volatile Memory Express ployments or quickly deploying contain- (NVMe) delivers faster remote storage ers using a minimized host OS. SUSE open device communications. SR-IOV ibmvnic source docker container support includes shared adapter support with IBM PowerVM a private registry at no additional cost and increases system I/O performance. This Portus: a graphical user interface for man- reduces the CPU load, and provides the aging images, secured with login authen- ability to enforce quality of service. tication.

Accelerate Innovation and Improve A comprehensive set of installation, con- Deplyment Times figuration, deployment and administration Reduce time to market for a broad choice tools powered by Zypper enables IT organi- of innovative open source and partner so- zations to save time and optimize lifecycle lutions. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server management. SUSE Manager (separate for POWER, IT organizations can confidently subscription required) provides configura- migrate applications and data with sup- tion and monitoring support for Power Sys- port for Little Endian mode. SUSE® has a vast tems servers. ecosystem of certified hardware and part- ner solutions, giving you freedom of choice SUSE and IBM to build the solutions that meet your needs. Support for Package Hub makes SUSE-ap- SUSE and IBM have collaborated for over proved Linux on Power packages built and 20 years to deliver industry-leading Linux- maintained by the open source community based solutions. The partnership includes of users. working together on technical development of innovative offerings and customer sup- SUSE support for open source docker con- port. tainers delivers improved agility for the IT

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