SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

Leverage the Power of Linux on vSphere

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Agenda
VMware industry leader Customer challenges What is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware The Offer Why Choose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware Next Steps: Activating your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware entitlement Resources

VMware The Proven Market Leader

Company Overview
~$2 B in 2009 revenue ~7,000 employees worldwide 5th largest infrastructure SW company

Proven in the Trenches

150,000+ VMware Customers 100% of Fortune 100 100% of Fortune Global 100 96% of Fortune 1000 95% of Fortune Global 500
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Gartner: VMware is the Clear Market Leader VMware stands alone as a leader in this Magic Quadrant
VMware is clearly ahead in:
Understanding the market Product strategy Business model Technology innovation, Product capabilities Sales execution

VMware Strengths:
Far-reaching virtualization strategy
enabling cloud computing, new application architectures and broader management

Technology leadership and innovation High customer satisfaction Large installed base (especially Global
2000), and rapid growth of service providers planning to use VMware (vCloud)
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Todays IT Complex, Inefficient, Inflexible

Where IT Energy Is Spent

Cause
Overwhelming complexity

5%
Infrastructure Investment

Reliance on brittle infrastructure

Effect

23%
Application Investment

42%
Infrastructure Maintenance

>70% of IT budgets just maintaining status quo <30% of IT budgets goes to innovation and competitive advantage

30%
Application Maintenance

Business Agility Depends on IT Agility

Source: VMware Fortune 100 Customers

Our Mission is Your Mission

SLES for VMware helps on all fronts of our mission

Reduce the Complexity

Dramatically Lower Costs

Enable Flexible, Agile IT Service Delivery

Virtualization Changes the Economics of Computing

Cost per VM hour (2GB instance)
20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80%

Increase utilization

Increase automation

Utilization

. . . and begets a new paradigm for IT

Cost per VM hour (2GB instance)
20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80%

Increase utilization

The Genesis of Cloud Computing

Increase automation

Utilization

Cloud Computing is an approach, not a destination

Cloud Computing is an approach to computing that leverages the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service.

Efficiency thru Utilization and Automation Pooling From machines to on-demand, highly elastic resource pools

Agility with Control

Freedom of Choice

Self-Service Easy access with policybased provisioning and deployment

Open & Interoperable Application mobility between clouds, based on open standards

Zero-touch Infrastructure Policy-driven automation of provisioning, deployment and management

Control Application-aware infrastructure with built-in availability, scalability, security and performance guarantees

Leverage Existing Investments Benefits of cloud computing to existing applications and datacenters

Private Cloud: The New Foundation For All Enterprise IT

Infrastructure

Desktop IT as

IT a Service as a Service
Platform

Application

Software

as a Service

Redwood

The VMware
vCenter

Private Cloud

vSphere

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VMware Industry Leader vSphere for cloud computing

Cloud computing is the emerging model that breaks ITs everincreasing complexity and costs that end up consuming 70% - 80% of IT budgets just to keep the status quo running. Virtualization is the foundation upon which cloud computing architectures are and will be built because virtualization is the only technology that offers an evolutionary path to cloud computing. VMware vSphere is the industrys leading and only robust virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures. Leveraging VMwares industry-leading technology and experience, VMware vSphere delivers agility with uncompromised control in the most efficient manner, while fully preserving customer choice.

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An Enterprise Linux OS with vSphere at no cost

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware Leverage the Power of Linux on vSphere As a data center professional, your on-going challenge is to provide fast and secure access to core business applications, systems and data. You need a reliable, high-performance server operating system that cost-effectively delivers critical business services. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware you can deploy such operating system in your VMware vSphere environments at no cost. Plus you can now have one line of support from VMware by purchasing our support offering for your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

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VMwares Offer for Enterprise Linux on vSphere

VMware vSphere customers receive SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware at no additional cost!
Qualified vSphere customers with active VMware SnS contracts are entitled to SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server for VMware (SLES for VMware)

SLES for VMware comes with free subscription to patches and updates at no additional
cost

Ability to run as many VMs per host as you want Why purchase another OS when you can get an enterprise Linux solution at no cost with
vSphere?

Purchase technical support for Linux directly from VMware

A single source for support of the the combined VMware vSphere and SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server solution from VMwares Global Support Services for your virtual machines.

Support is available at both Basic (12x5) and Production (24x7) levels To purchase VMware technical support of SLES for VMware:
visit the VMware Store @ www.vmware.com/go/buyslesforvmwaresupport call a VMware representative at 1-877-4VMWARE (1-877-486-9273). Outside of North America,
please dial 1-650-427-5000.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

Based on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Industry proven enterprise Linux operating system

Accelerates the evolution Recommended by application ISVs including SAP Oracle and IBM to a fully virtualized Supported by over 5,000 applications datacenter

Delivered as part of VMware vSphere

Entitlement with orders as of June 9th, 2010 No additional cost

Supported by VMware Global Support Services

With a paid, separate, support agreement

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Benefits of SLES for VMware

Lower cost of ownership
Proven enterprise Linux operating system at no cost VMware provides free subscription to patches and updates to qualified customers

Broad application support

Most extensive application support among any enterprise Linux operating with over 5,000 applications certified

Lower risk
Up to date support and certification for applications as well as a high degree of interoperability among supported platforms

Improved IT agility
Ability to run as many SLES for VMware virtual machines as you want on every qualified VMware vSphere host

Enterprise level capabilities

Proven reliability and high-performance of an enterprise Linux operating system

More efficient support

Purchase technical phone support delivered directly from VMware

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SLES for VMware accelerates the journey to cloud

Efficiency Thru Utilization and Automation - SLES for
VMware provides customers with a proven enterprise Linux operating system, at no additional cost, with their vSphere subscription. Customers have the opportunity to drive even greater ROI and operational efficiency when they obtain support for the OS directly from VMware s Global Support Services.
Key Benefits

Agility with Control SLES for VMware is based on a

proven enterprise Linux operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, and therefore delivers the highest levels of reliability, scalability and performance and is a proven choice to run any type of application including mission critical and Tier-1 in a VMware virtual environment.

Freedom of Choice - Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Server 11, SLES for VMware offers the broadest application support among enterprise Linux operating systems with over 5,000 application certifications.

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Why Choose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware

The most scalable and high performing Linux operating system reliable and secure Interoperability with UNIX- and Windows-Systems Reference platform for enterprise applications, including SAP Optimized to run on VMware vSphere Built-in systems management provides IT with more choices and greater flexibility

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Ready for Your Mission Critical Applications

SLES for VMware is ideally suited for mission-critical workloads that require outstanding reliability, performance and scalability, as well as other server workloads. Target workloads include:
SAP applications Other ERP, CRM and enterprise business applications, including Oracle applications JEE applications and the underlying middleware infrastructures offered by IBM,
Oracle, SAP, Hitachi and others

Enterprise database environments, such as Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL,

MySQL, ADABAS, InterBase and others

NET-based applications Other custom and legacy enterprise applications IT infrastructure Web, network and storage infrastructure

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SUSE Linux Enterprise The Preferred Linux Platform for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise is the only Linux platform SAP recommends for its customers Market leader with 75 percent market share of SAP on Linux, with more than 1,000 customers Joint development and support of virtualization solutions involving SAP applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Linux Enterprise is the only operating system that runs SAP's Business Warehouse Accelerator. First Linux high availability solution for SAP applications in a virtualized environment. Novell received the SAP Pinnacle Award in the category Technology: Co-Innovation for Core Business.

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How to get started with SLES for VMware

Purchase qualifying edition of vSphere

Activate the subscription to patches for SLES for VMware

Download SLES for VMware

www.vmware.com/go/downloadslesf orvmware

Create as many VMs as you need

Purchase technical support

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Next Steps: Activate your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware Entitlement
Customers entitled to SLES for VMware will receive an email from VMware including the activation code to obtain the subscription to patches and updates to SLES for VMware at no cost To activate the subscription the code must be registered in a Novell portal:
If you are a Novell customer and you have a Novell account go to www.novell.com/register to
activate your subscription

If you are not an existing Novell customer, do not have Novell account, go to
www.vmware.com/go/activateslesforvmware to register and activate your subscription (Note: you will be redirected to a Novell site)

To download SLES for VMware go to

www.vmware.com/go/downloadslesforvmware (Note: you will be redirected to a Novell site)

Got questions? Contact VMware Support www.vmware.com/support/us_support.html

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Resources and contacts

SLES for VMware website: www.vmware.com/go/slesforvmware Press release: www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/novell-vmw-partnership.html Email Sandi Terry, sterry@vmware.com Sr. Director for Emerging Products or contact your
local VMware representative or partner.

VMware Store @ www.vmware.com/go/buyslesforvmwaresupport Call a VMware representative at 1-877-4VMWARE (1-877-486-9273). Outside of North
America, please dial 1-650-427-5000

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Appendix

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The Value of Linux on vSphere

Lowers Costs
Customers routinely save 50 to 80% on hardware license and maintenance fees when migrating from older RISC-based systems to modern x86, POWER, Itanium Consolidate operations on fewer operating systems and server platforms in order to reduce the management complexity and costs associated with running multiple platforms.
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Designed for Mission Critical workloads

A robust platform for mission-critical workloads Provides rock-solid reliability and availability for missioncritical deployments Recommended by application ISV such as SAP Oracle and IBM applications Supported by 5,000+ certified independent software vendor (ISV) applications

Reliability, & Performance & Usability

SLES provides advanced memory management and processor support, multi-pathing, and I/O capabilities, coupled with support for high speed interconnects and multi-threaded file systems. Ideal choices for high performance computing Includes familiar administration tools that provide excellent usability