Category: Technical Solutions

SUSE architects have improved the cluster architecture to be fully compatible with the updated SAP certification for SAP NetWeaver cluster integration. SAP released this updated SAP certification under the name NW-HA CLU 740. SUSE passed this certification on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 for both Intel X64 and IBM Power little endian […]

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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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Hack Week … If you are part of SUSE, you are eagerly awaiting it. If you are following SUSE regularly, you surely heard about it. If you have no clue what it is, you should inform yourself. Because it is one of the most intelligent and motivating ways to foster open source contribution AND innovation! […]

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If you have been watching the news during the last 2-3 years, you might occasionally have heard about reproducible builds.   What are reproducible builds? The reproducible-builds project says “Reproducible builds” aim to provide a verifiable path from software source code to its compiled binary form. In its simplest form it means, that you can […]

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SUSE Manager 3.2, the latest release from SUSE, delivers best-in-class open source infrastructure management with new enhancements focused on lowering costs, improving DevOps efficiency and easily managing large complex deployments across IoT, cloud and container infrastructures. As a key component of a software-defined infrastructure, SUSE Manager 3.2 provides you with three major key new benefits: […]

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From both feature and security perspectives, integrating Linux systems with Active Directory environments has been a challenge for their respective system administrators and organisations. However, modern Linux distributions include the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) which addresses many of the legacy shortcomings handily. The daemon uses identity and authentication providers (and other service providers) to […]

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions are becoming the standard for many user facing IT services. Most visibly with web applications, corporate VPNs, self-service portals and online banking platforms to name but a few. Extending MFA to the realm of system administration to harden access to the Linux operating system itself is becoming an established best practice […]

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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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There is now a new choice of hypervisors supported for production virtualized SAP HANA systems! The KVM virtualization included with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP Applications is now supported for SAP customers to choose for production SAP HANA systems. SAP’s virtualized SAP HANA support statements are based on a combination of the hypervisor […]

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Supporting an enterprise distribution on a given piece of hardware often requires getting additional information from the misbehaving system. In case of kernel crashes this means a crash dump. Some time ago I announced my intention to enable it on AArch64. The task was then taken over by my colleague Matthias Brugger, and dumping works […]

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