SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Data the Adaptable Operating System Sheet
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Data The adaptable operating system Sheet 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 software-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. 2021 2021 “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.” IDC Market Note, 2018 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 Linux distribution - 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 2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SUSE.com 2021 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- tails 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- 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SUSE.com 2021 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, Microsoft 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 Xen 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 Open Build Service 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 4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SUSE.com 2021 innovate without being out of pace with the structure using SLES for ARM and SUSE Linux traditional enterprise software delivery mod- Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi. 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