Category: Server

On July 16, 2018 SUSE® officially released SUSE® Linux Enterprise 15. With this new release we also announce the availability of the YES System Certification Kit (SCK) version 8.1 for hardware systems. SCK 8.1 now provides certification support for SLE 15 including XEN and KVM Virtualization. SCK 8.1 includes certification for the following hardware platforms: Intel 64/AMD64 (x86-64 […]

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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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Arm servers are here (to stay) I’ve spent the last few weeks meeting with many customers and partners in Frankfurt at the ISC High Performance Conference, HPCast, and the GoingArm conference. We have worked with the Arm community for many years to build a 64-bit Arm server ecosystem. As a result, SUSE has delivered three […]

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The expansion of High Performance Computing (HPC) beyond the niches of higher education and government realms to corporate and business computing use cases has been on the rise. One catalyst of this trend is increasing innovation in hardware platforms and software development. Both respectively drive down the cost of deploying supercomputing services with each iteration […]

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Savings, new business models, and competitive advantage are a few of the benefits offered by SAP S/4HANA. See why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is a leading platform for SAP solutions on Linux technology, which is required for harnessing SAP S/4HANA. According to a recent survey, two-thirds of SAP customers are planning their […]

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With passenger numbers growing by almost 30 percent annually, LOT Polish Airlines needed to ensure its systems could support rapidly expanding business. To gain flexibility and break the linear relationship between business growth and IT costs, LOT migrated from Red Hat Enterprise Support to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server with Expanded Support, reducing OS subscription fees […]

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… with SUSE Microsoft Solution Templates Following the launch of M-SERIES/SAP HANA certified Virtual Machines (VMs) on Azure, we had announced our new marketplace offering. At the SAP Sapphire in Orlando 2018 last week we presented it at the SUSE and the Microsoft booth. This Azure Marketplace offering leverages Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates to automate […]

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This is the fifth and last article about sapconf and it will tie up lose ends. NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. Summary of important things If you install the reworked sapconf version for the first time: After installation, sapconf is enabled and started immediately with […]

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This is the forth article about sapconf and it will cover the deinstallation NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. Deinstallation Really? You want to get rid of it? Well… If you really want: sles12-sp3:~ # rpm -e sapconf Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sapconf.service. Easy, wasn’t it? But what […]

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This is the third article about sapconf and it will cover the update from a previous (not reworked) version to a reworked one. NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. Updating Normally updating a package is quiet simple. Non-configuration files are exchanged silently, configuration files only if […]

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