Category: Expert Views

Ever tried to switch instance types from lets say t2 to m5 on SLES 12 SP3 (including SLES For SAP)? Well if you did you were in for a bad surprise in that your instance would no longer boot. Switching the instance type back away from the newer instance types c5, m5, m5d…. and restarting […]

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Free and open source software has a long and interesting history. It can trace some of its origins back to Richard Stallman’s annoying issue with a printer or to Linus Torvald’s computer science project while studying at the University of Helsinki. Things have certainly changed since then. Open source software is no longer simply a […]

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The content of this article has been contributed by Frank Sundermeyer, Project Manager of the SUSE Documentation Team.  It is part of a series of articles focusing on SUSE Documentation and the great minds that create the manuals, guides, quick starts, and many more helpful documents.           Biology – or IT? My […]

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This article has been contributed by Rafał Pawlicki, Senior Developer at DreamLab Poland, a company providing IT services and solutions for digital media.  I had the pleasure to meet Rafał already at soap! conference last year, where I spoke about our SUSE documentation processes. Back then Rafał and I discussed a lot about the importance of documentation, […]

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There is no doubt, that CEOs around the globe discussing cutting-edge technologies to extend the reach of their business. It helps them to speed the development of new/better offerings, and to differentiate from their competitors. The SAP Innovation Award celebrates the achievements of those top companies and people across the globe. The winners are using […]

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Abstract and problem statement It is sometimes necessary to bridge two security or routing domains with an intermediary system configured to forward, tunnel, or Masquerade traffic between the source and final destination node. This solution was derived from a recent customer request, while moving their SAP Hana DB from a remote datacenter facility to the MS […]

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Sometimes no network is available for installing a system. This can be for security reasons, testing equipment, or simply due to absence of any network. To accommodate such setups SUSE provides a full off-line installation with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.   In this blog I will discuss the SUSE capabilities of a full off-line installation, […]

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The release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 is out and with it, it brings a new kernel build, kernel-azure. The new kernel is built into our on-demand images in Azure. The -azure build of the kernel is fully supported by SUSE. For instances started from the -Standard, or -Priority images you need to contact Microsoft […]

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Consumability, it’s an odd word that I like to toss around in regard to SUSE offerings in the market.  Given that it’s not well defined, I thought I’d try to help you understand what I mean when I say it. Rather than being some narrowly defined term, I believe that the phrase consumability encompasses a number of […]

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This article has been contributed by Matt Fleming, Senior Performance Engineer at SUSE. Matt is a highly experienced and passionate open source developer, who also contributes regularly to our SUSE Best Practices series of documentation. However, recently, and kind of by chance, we discovered his passion for another topic: Marketing! Yes, you’ve got it right: […]

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