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SUSE® Linux Enterprise 15 server is administrators that allows you to a modular operating system that deploy business-critical workloads paves the way for IT transforma- on-premises, in the cloud and at tion in the -defined era. the edge. The modern and modular OS helps simplify your IT environment, mod- The modern and modular OS helps ernize your IT infrastructure, and simplify your IT environment, mod- accelerate innovation with an en- ernize your IT infrastructure, and gaging platform for developers. accelerate innovation. Many or- ganizations use traditional infra- Product Overview structure, software-defined infra- structure, or a mix of traditional When it comes to relying on a and software-defined. This leads single Linux OS to run all your ap- to a hybrid IT scenario, where dif- plication workloads, SUSE Linux ferent types of IT infrastructure Enterprise Server adapts to any have different technologies, pro- operating environment while sat- cesses, and business drivers. SUSE isfying your requirements for per- Linux Enterprise 15 server, with its formance, security, and reliability multimodal design, helps orga- – purpose-built for your needs. It’s nizations transform their IT land- an engaging and easy-to-man- scape by bridging traditional and age platform for developers and software-defined infrastructure.

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“SUSE designed SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15 with the developer community in mind. Developers can easily transition from openSUSE Leap or the free developer versions of SLE to the fully supported SLE 15 distribution.”

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Key Benefits prise and Bring-Your-Own-Subscription, you can easily transition to or leverage Simplify your IT environment public cloud—Alibaba, Azure, AWS, Google, The SUSE Linux Enterprise “common code IBM, Oracle. base” platform helps break the silos of IT systems while bridging traditional and soft- Accelerate innovation ware-defined infrastructure. This enables Make it easy for your DevOps teams to easy migration of application workloads, adopt open-source software with support improves systems management, protects for automation, project builds and mes- your investments in traditional infrastruc- sage-oriented middleware. Accelerate ture, and eases adoption of containers. your innovation by connecting with our de- veloper community at SUSE Package Hub. Modernize your IT infrastructure Once you are ready to move to from de- Improve efficiency and innovate without velopment sandbox to production you can disrupting the traditional IT infrastructure seamlessly transition from our commu- pillars—stability, security, and proven stan- nity - openSUSE Leap - to dards. Architecturally, everything is a mod- SUSE Linux Enterprise. Meet the needs of the ule. So, you can get product updates and modern developer and DevOps teams with patches more frequently. The modular management and monitoring features architecture helps an IT administrator re- such as RabbitMQ, Prometheus and Maven. duce risk by simplifying planning and deci- sion making. Starting with one installation Key Features image, you can add SUSE Linux Enterprise Server products or add modules with ease Your teams have the flexibility to run work- as your business needs grow. With the loads anywhere. SUSE Linux Enterprise’s cloud-agnostic design of SUSE Linux Enter- multimodal architecture enables you to

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bridge your traditional and software-de- quality security updates, and continuously fined infrastructures, so you can innovate improve the security-related functionality freely and easily deploy and transition in SUSE products. business-critical workloads across a broad range of on-premise and public cloud en- Business Continuity vironments. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availabil- ity Extension is an industry-leading open- Adaptability source high availability clustering system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server includes a set designed to virtually eliminate unplanned of APIs and services that abstract the de- downtime. It’s easy to use and can be de- of the underlying hardware infrastruc- ployed in both physical and virtual envi- ture to make it possible to write applica- ronments. Also included is Geo Clustering, tions that can work with the widest range of designed to manage cluster servers in the architectures, servers, storage, and network cloud or in data centers anywhere in the options available. This allows SLES to adapt world. SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching to any operating environment and enables improves business continuity and saves smooth application workload migrations costs by reducing downtime, increasing between them. SUSE Linux Enterprise’s mul- service availability, and enhancing security timodal architecture enables you to bridge and compliance. your traditional and software-defined in- frastructures, so you can innovate freely Create cost-effective infrastructure based and easily deploy business-critical work- on your mission critical systems require- loads across on-premise and public cloud ments. SUSE Linux Enterprise provides prov- environments. en sup- port for a range of mission-critical systems—Mainframes IBM z System and Security and Compliance LinuxONE, Midrange servers powered by SUSE ensures that compliance standards IBM POWER8 and scalable Intel/AMD/ARM are applied consistently across your es- 64-bit servers. tate. The configuration, auditing and au- tomation features of SUSE Manager make Achieve higher service availability by clus- it easy to ensure compliance with internal tering servers together and removing single security policies and external regulations. points of failure. SUSE Linux Enterprise High SUSE is committed to delivering best effort Availability Extension offers an industry- security to its customers and to the open- leading, mature high availability solution. source community. Our engineers promptly Starting with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, Geo react to security incidents, deliver premium Clustering is included within High Availabil-

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ity extension itself, so you can easily con- plications, SUSE eases your transition to the nect data centers across the world using public cloud. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server the integrated Geo Clustering functionality. simplifies your efforts to run on the cloud. Our cloud images are available, optimized, Virtualization and ready to run for Amazon Web Servic- Server and application virtualization maxi- es, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google mizes flexibility without sacrificing perfor- Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle. Bring-Your- mance, security, or reliability. Each SUSE Own-Subscription (BYOS) makes it easy Linux Enterprise Server subscription includes to implement hybrid/multi cloud. You can support for the leading hypervisor technol- bring your existing subscriptions to SUSE- ogies and cloud platforms. As a result, you certified public cloud providers and to spin get more from your underutilized systems up on-demand instances. and lower the costs of acquiring and main- taining hardware. Containers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server supports Linux Increase virtualization and reduce data containers and open-source container en- footprint using virtualization technologies gines. You can manage Linux containers that suit your business needs. SUSE Linux using common virtualization framework Enterprise Server provides built-in support (libvirt). To support open-source container for and Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM), engines, a private registry is included with Containers for application automation, and tools to collaborate securely, apply securi- virtualized driver packs for enhanced virtual ty patches, and automate application de- machine performance. SUSE Linux Enter- ployment inside Linux containers. prise Server is optimized to deliver superior performance with VMware vSphere and Mi- Packages and crosoft Hyper-V. VMware drivers and tools Pick and choose functionality from a menu (open-vmtools) are fully supported and of packages made available by Modular+ integrated into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server architecture. Create reproducible builds in an all-in-one package with their perfor- across architectures and Linux distributions mance fine-tuned. using Open Build Service technology. Take advantage of thousands of open-source Cloud Ready packages from the user community on Accelerate innovation and time-to-mar- SUSE Package Hub. ket with SUSE solutions optimized for public cloud. Shift upfront CAPEX to pay-as-you- Modules go OPEX. Whether migrating existing work- In SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 with modular archi- loads or developing and deploying new ap- tecture, everything is a module. So, you can

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innovate without being out of pace with the structure using SLES for ARM and SUSE Linux traditional enterprise software delivery mod- Enterprise Server for . el. The modules available in SUSE Linux Enter- prise Server provide faster integration with Salt upstream updates. This design approach lets Track and manage configurations using you balance the flexibility of the modular ar- Salt integrated in base system. Salt pro- chitecture and stability of the infrastructure. vides a very scalable, fast, and secure way Using Unified Installer, customers can search of communicating with systems in real for a package they like and choose the set of time. In addition, you can seamlessly in- packages they want in the system. tegrate with SUSE Manager to take full ad- vantage of Salt’s configuration manage- Full System Rollback ment capabilities. Gain better resiliency with Full System Roll- back that allows you to take snapshots of Full support for KIWI the system, including the kernel files, and With one configuration, you can use KIWI to roll back. System administrators can boot create OS images for physical deployments from a snapshot to improve data safety. (DVD, USB) as well as provision it into virtual When you upgrade to a new service pack hypervisor environments (Xen, KVM, VMware, for your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the full HyperV), container frameworks and public system rollback capability minimizes the and private clouds. In addition, SUSE Linux risk and allows you to rollback easily. Enterprise Server supports Linux Containers and open-source Docker container engine. Skip Service Packs You can manage Linux Containers using Save time and resources with “skip service common virtualization framework (libvirt). packs” functionality, which lets you skip To support open-source Docker container upgrades of prior service packs and jump engine, a private registry is included with straight to latest service pack. Along with tools to collaborate securely, apply security the Rollback feature that enables going patches, and automate application deploy- back to a good state at click of a button you ment inside Linux Containers. can minimize human error and save even more time. Implement DevOps Support automation, project builds and ARM AArch64 and Raspberry Pi message-oriented middleware, all com- Improve power efficiency using ARM 64’s bined with management and monitoring low power consumption and efficient de- features (such as RabbitMQ, Prometheus sign for your servers and network infra- and Maven).

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching network function virtualization capabilities Update security patches without rebooting provide SUSE customers with a complete machines and without waiting for your next virtualization solution for cloud and on- service window. premises deployments.

Data Security NVDIMM Improved hardware-based data security Reduce downtime by reducing rebuild time using AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualiza- upon power restoration with integrated tion (SEV) technology. It enables guest vir- NVDIMMs that save data in seconds and tual machines to run in encrypted memory, make data immediately avail- able on helping protect them from memory scrape reboot. Downtime sensitive applications at- tacks from the hypervisor. such as online transaction processing and financial applications can benefit from Complete offline installation/disconnected persistent system memory functional- operations ity. Improve performance by running ap- Enhance security with disconnected of- plications such as storage and database fline installation that helps you to maintain acceleration at far higher speeds using physical segregation from external net- system memory persistence capabili- works. Complete offline installation is a big ties of NVDIMM. As an example, SUSE Linux benefit for many applications such as Or- Enterprise Server is optimized for Intel® acle, SQL, and SAP and businesses such as OptaneTM DC persistent memory with SAP government and defense. HANA® workloads.

Open vSwitch with DPDK (Data Plane Exploiting Hardware RAS Development Kit) Enhance your system reliability and reduce Efficiently implement virtual network func- service costs. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server tions using Open vSwitch with DPDK (Data includes exclusive processes to exploit the Plane Development Kit) that accelerates RAS features of your hardware platform. the user space data plane and provides the packet processing capabilities needed Certified Applications for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server supports a Network Function Virtualization (NFV) solu- wide variety of third-party ISV applications. tions. For the complete list of certified software applications for SUSE Linux Enterprise (all Combined with the broad hypervisor sup- versions), please visit: https://www.suse. port of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server the new com/susePSC/home

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Certified Hardware tion at EAL4+. In addition, multiple cryptog- Most leading hardware vendors support our raphy security modules are validated to Linux server OS, so you can save money by fulfill the requirements of FIPS 140-2. Those using your existing physical servers or low- modules are OpenSSL, OpenSSH client and cost commodity hardware. server, Strongswan (IPSecbased VPNs), the Kernel Crypto API, Mozilla NSS (Level 2) and NVMe over Fabrics libgcrypt. Improve application performance with fast local NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) TPM 2.0 and remote storage devices with NVMe Implement hardware-based security with over Fabrics (NoF). Using NVMe you can ful- se- cure cryptoprocessor standard TPM ly exploit the benefits of modern solid-state (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0. memory technology. Disk Encryption Enhanced YaST® Installer Protect data at rest without additional soft- Improve resiliency and automate pro- ware cost. Local and remote disk encryp- cesses right from installer stage using auto tion is supported using cryptctl for all on- update of code with the powerful adminis- premises, cloud, and hybrid installations. tration tool YaST (Yet another Setup Tool). Integration via Enterprise Key Management YaST gives you the capability to customize KMIP standard. your system quickly during and after the in- stallation. YaST is now written in Ruby so it’s Single Sign-on open and more easily customized. Shibboleth support in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server enables single sign-on using one SUSE Customer Center (SCC) identity across different domains for com- Using SCC, you can centrally manage your puter networks and web infrastructure. SUSE subscriptions, access software up- dates and contact SUSE Customer Support. Embedded Systems The user-friendly interface gives you a cen- For those seeking an embedded operating tral view of all your SUSE subscriptions, al- system to build into their products, SUSE lowing you to easily find the information you Embedded Systems deliver secure, flexible, need. and scalable enterprise Linux software and support. Ideal for manufacturers of devic- Security standards compliance es, hardware, and appliances, SUSE Em- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is successfully bedded Systems makes it easy to develop, certified after Common Criteria Certifica- maintain, grow, and manage embedded

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Linux solutions across a wide range of plat- depends on high availability and respon- forms and industries. siveness of their enterprise IT systems. Whether it’s an IoT sensor monitoring indus- Edge Computing trial devices or an edge system that must Organizations want smarter, digitized prod- act instantly on external inputs, SUSE Linux ucts and new innovative ways to interact Enterprise Real Time is an open-source real with customers and other products. SUSE time operating system designed to ensure Linux Enterprise Micro provides a platform near instant execution of applications and that allows for key products — from cars to processes. It is designed to reduce latency medical devices to 5G equipment or point and increase the predictability and reliabil- of sale solutions — to become more intel- ity of time-sensitive, business-critical ap- ligent and deliver exceptional customer plications SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time experiences. With SUSE, organizations can help you stay ahead of the competition. deliver innovative products and boost pro- ductivity while maintaining highest security Point Of Service (POS) Devices standards. SUSE Manager for Retail includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Point Of Service clients and pro- High Performance Computing vides a best-in-class open source infra- SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance structure management solution for your Computing (HPC) is a highly scalable, high retail environment. It is optimized and tai- performance open source operating sys- lored specifically for the retail industry. From tem designed to utilize the power of paral- Mainframe and HPC Clusters, bare metal lel computing for modeling, simulation and servers and VMs down to point of service advanced analytics applications such as terminals, kiosks, self-service and reverse- artificial intelligence and machine learning vending systems Linux deployments, SUSE Fueled by the need for more compute pow- Manager for Retail helps you reduce costs, er and scale, businesses around the world optimize operations, and ensure compli- today are recognizing that a high-perfor- ance across your IT infrastructure. mance computing infrastructure is vital to supporting the analytics applications of to- Workstation morrow. SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension enables you to turn your enterprise server Real Time Computing into a fully featured development or ad- SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time is tailored ministrator workstation to improve produc- for precision timing and predictability. The tivity and improve code quality. It includes business success of many organizations all the productivity applications that are

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included in the desktop version, so you can problem resolution time for mission-critical conveniently access the workstation func- operations, as well as access to updates tionality you need from your server. and fixes.

SAP Applications IBM Z and LinuxONE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Appli- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Z and cations is the leading Linux platform for SAP LinuxONE is an enterprise-class, highly re- HANA, SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA liable, scalable and secure open source solutions and is endorsed by SAP. Our cus- server operating system, optimized for IBM tomers reduce the risk from service outag- z and LinuxONE and built to power physical, es, spend less time and effort undertaking virtual and cloud-based mission-critical systems maintenance, and deploy services workloads. faster, on premise and in the cloud. Desktop POWER SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop coexists SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER pro- with Windows, Mac, , and other op- videsan enterprise-grade Linux distribution erating systems. The desktop gives you with optimizations for POWER8 and POWER9 dozens of leading applications, including processor-based systems. It is designed to a web browser, email, collaboration tools, deliver increased reliability, reduce costs and multimedia players—all at no extra formission-critical applications, provide cost. This Linux desktop comes with se- a high-performance platform to meet in- curity features such as application secu- creasing business demands and acceler- rity system, integrated VPN and antivirus ate innovation while improving deployment tools, so you can deliver bullet-proof se- times. curity in your enterprise and protect from harmful virus attacks, malware, and other Arm security threats. In addition, it includes a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Arm is an suite of tools that make it easy to install, enterprise-grade Linux distribution that is configure and maintain your Linux desk- optimized for unique 64-bit Arm chip ca- top. pabilities. It enables solution providers and enterprise early adopters to gain faster time For further details visit: https://www.suse. to market for innovative server and Internet com/products/server/ of Things (IoT) device solutions. SUSE Sup- port services options include up to 1-hour Documentation: https://documentation. response times and 24 x 7 access to reduce suse.com/en-us/sles/15-SP3/

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Release Notes: https://www.suse.com/re- Supported processor platforms leasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP3/ • x86_64 (Intel 64, AMD 64) System Requirements • ppc64le (IBM POWER LE) • s390x (IBM Z and LinuxONE) Minimum Linux server system requirements • aarch64 (Arm64) for installation For detailed product specifications and • 1024 MB RAM, 512 MB Swap recommend- system requirements, visit: https://docu- ed mentation.suse.com/en-us/sles/15-SP3/ • 2 GB available disk space (8.5 GB for all patterns), 32 GB for snapshot/rollback of the OS • 800x600 display resolution (1024x768 or higher recommended)

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