SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Eduardo Diaz
Sales Engineer
SUSE
ediaz@suse.com

Questions That IT is Facing Today

Am I able to guarantee service

availability for my organization?

What if my developers need the latest

tools?

We need to buy new hardware. How

can I ensure my OS works with it
before purchasing deadline?

How to make sure we are prepared for

cloud?

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

The advanced foundation for your success

Increase
uptime

Improve operational
efficiency

Accelerate
innovation

Increase Uptime

Increase Uptime and Meet SLAs

Minimize planned and unplanned downtime; help meet

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Protect your mission-critical workloads

RAS

High
Availability
& Geo
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System
Rollback

Live
Patching

Exploiting Hardware RAS

Reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS)
were traditional UNIX features, now available
and mature on Linux.

Improve Resiliency:
Full System Rollback

Rollback to a good state with one click for faster

recovery from planned or unplanned downtime

Support for service pack rollback

Support for kernel upgrade

Based on btrfs and Snapper, bootloader integration

Increase Service Availability

with Clustering
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

Quickly and easily install, configure and manage clustered

Linux servers

Increase service availability for mission-critical systems

and data

Transparent to Virtualization nodes can be virtual, physical

or mixed! Integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Meet Service Level Agreements

Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High

Availability Extension

Business continuity, anywhere in the world

Zero Interruption:
Ready for Live Patching
Ready for SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching

Kernel live patching infrastructure built-in

Works with zero execution interruption

Use Cases

In-memory
Database
(SAP HANA)

Mission-critical
Infrastructure
Services

Simulation
Un-interrupted

Massive,
Time-critical
Deployment

https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/need-kgraft-2/

Improve Operational Efficiency

Improve Operational Efficiency

Maximize Output

Deploy anywhere

Made for cloud

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Application containers

Minimize Cost

Reduce management cost

with easy-to-use tools
Protect existing investment
with interoperability

Easy-to-Use Tools
Local system management

YaST and AutoYaST: now in Ruby, more open for

customization

Wicked: making it easy to manage ever-complicated network

configuration such as vLan, virtualization, bridging, IPv6, etc.

Improved installation workflow

Interactive as well as unattended upgrade (offline, in place)
on all architectures

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Interoperability
VMware

VMware tools integration

Microsoft

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SAMBA4 ,server-side copy

improvements

Microsoft System Center

Operations Manager integration
with SUSE Manager

System
inspection

Existing system

Various Output
Formats

Flexible Building and Deployment

Report

KIWI

engine of SUSE
Studio
Base OS image

Public
Cloud Module
Advanced Systems
Management
Module

Your Project

Base OS image

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YaST / AutoYast

Test

Deployment

Made for the Cloud

In the Clouds

Perfect Guest

Available in Public Clouds

Host

Guest

In Your Data Center

Dual Hypervisor Support

&
Containers
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Cloud Hosts

Accelerate Innovation

Accelerate Innovation
Fast access to
partner innovations

Easy access to
new versions of
open source
software

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Reduce time to
value with SUSE
ecosystem

Modules: An Easier Way to Get

New Enhancements

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Easier access to the latest updates

Different lifecycles, ranging from continuous

integration to three years

Fully maintained and supported

Included in subscription without additional cost

Five optional modules besides base OS

Modules: A Closer Look

Module Name

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Content

Lifecycle

Web and Scripting

Module

PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails

3 years, 18
months
overlap

Legacy Module

Sendmail, old IMAP stack, old

Java, etc.

3 years

Public Cloud Module

Public cloud initialization code

and tools

Continuous
integration

Toolchain Module

GCC

Yearly
delivery

Advanced Systems
Management Module

cfengine, puppet and the new

"machinery" tool

Continuous
integration

SUSE SolidDriver Program:

Same-Day Hardware Enablement
SUSE SolidDriver
Program

Hardware
Vendor

- Tools
- Specs
- Process
Kernel Drivers
- Uniform
- Consistent
- Proven
- Compatible

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Workloads
Server

New
Hardware

More Choices: Broad Ecosystem

Intel 64 / AMD64
POWER8 LE
System z
Yes!
certifications

Thousands of
ISV applications
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Pilot in Enterprise Innovations

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Linux kernel 3.x since 2012 (now 3.12)

12 years on XFS

Commercially support btrfs since 2012, now as the

default file system for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Commercially support Linux Containers since 2012

Docker included (Technical Preview)

Base System
Provide More Than Unix

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Highlights

64-bit

Based on Linux Kernel 3.12

Boot process

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64-bit system available for many years

32-bit systems endangered
full support for 32-bit applications within a 64-bit system

Grub2 (bootloader)
Dracut (initrd building)
UEFI Secure Boot

Btrfs
Modular
Systemd
Wicked

Filesystems: btrfs Maturity

Mature / Supported

Not (yet) mature

Copy on Write

Inode Cache

Snapshots

Auto Defrag

Subvolumes

RAID

Metadata Integrity

Compression

Data Integrity

Send / Receive

Online metadata scrubbing Hot add / remove

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Manual Defragmentation

Seeding devices

Manual Deduplication

Multiple Devices

Quota Groups

Big Metadata

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Filesystem recommendations
Ye
s
OS

Purpose?

New Filesystem?
Data

No

xfs

Type?

reiserfs

ext2/3/4
Ye
s

Snapshots?
No
xfs

btrfs
Recommended Filesystems
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Snapshots?

Ye
s

No
ext3|4

Convert

Modular Packaging
Flexible Component Delivery

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Modules

Supported components of SUSE Linux Enterprise

List of modules

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Clearly defined scope

Defined lifecycle, different from the main product
Delivered on-line

Web and Scripting

Legacy
Toolchain
Public Cloud
Advanced Systems
Management

System Rollback
Reduce Operational Downtime

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Towards Zero Downtime

System Rollback
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:
Extended system integration
Support for Service Pack rollback
Support for Kernel Upgrade
Full system rollback

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SUSE Linux Enterprise

Uptime Extension
Manage Without Downtime

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Uptime Extension

Technology kGraft
What?
Technology to provide Kernel Live Patching
Designed and developed by SUSE Labs
Ease of use: Builds on existing proven update
processes
Status?
Currently integrated Upstream (=Kernel community)
Competitive Advantage?
Works with zero execution interruption

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As opposed to competition who stop the whole system

(miliseconds to seconds range) when patching

High Availability
Increase Service Availability

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Towards Zero Downtime

High Availability Outlook 12

Keep it most up-to-date

Storage

Usability

HAWK (web console), crm 2.0 shell, wizards & templates

Extend GEO framework to a full solution stack

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SCSI reservation handling, Ocfs & GFS2, drbd (data

replication)

GEO reference architecture

IP take-over (via dynamic DNS)
Multi-tenancy arbitrator (for multi-cluster environments)

Best Managed System

Improve Operational Performance

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Best Managed Local Management

Leading system installation technology

YaST: the only integrated single system management

solution in the Linux world

Wicked: overhaul of network management

Cope with increasingly complex configurations

Benefits

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Network configuration as a service

Smooth adoption & migration

CIM: Open and standardized interfaces

Cloud & Virtualization

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Made for Cloud Future

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Keep: Xen and KVM hypervisors + Linux Containers

Guests: 32-bit + 64-bit
Bigger: Memory 16TB, CPUs 4096, etc.
More: vfio, vTPM, multiqueue networking, vCPU
hotplug
Complete: V2V tools and documentation
Vmware: Open Virtual Machine Tools
Evaluate: Docker

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Interoperability - Overview

Network

IPv6 overall

Virtualization and Cloud

Operating Systems Interop

Windows

UNIX
Linux

Standards Compliance

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Samba4
- AD Integration
- btrfs Integration

Accessibility
Security (NIST, BSI)

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Lifecycle
2011

SLE10

SLE 11

2012

2014

2015

2016

SP4

SP2

SLE 12

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2013

SP4

SP3

GA

SP1

13-year lifecycle

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Starting with SLES 11,

10 years general support,
+3 years Long Term Support

Long Term Service Pack Support

for every Service Pack

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