Category: Virtualization

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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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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Open Source is about choice, and making choices. One of the choices we made when we introduced SUSE Manager in 2011 was to not re-invent the wheel. Instead, we based SUSE Manager on the Spacewalk project. And we haven’t looked back ever since. Spacewalk provided us with a solid and mature code base that we […]

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We’re just finishing up here at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit – an amazing event this year, returning to an amazing city. The weather even cooperated and we were treated with spectacular views of snow-capped peaks in the distance while float planes entertained us, landing and taking off from the harbor, just outside the convention center. […]

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SUSE presents the SUSE Container Ecosystem Survey. We wanted to find out what kind of solutions are offered in containers and how independent software vendors (ISVs) plan on supporting compatibility. Watch what we found out on our brighttalk. You will learn: Why ISVs offer container deployment options What applications are being offered as container deployment […]

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We’re just finishing up here at the Nutanix .NEXT event in New Orleans, and I have to say – what a city, and what an event! Here in “The Big Easy”, as New Orleans is affectionately called, Nutanix has been showing partners and customers how easy it is to deploy and gain benefit from “hyper-converged, […]

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Hyper-V is another great compute option to consider for OpenStack. And now, the Hyper-V Compute Driver, available from Cloudbase Solutions, is certified and available for SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7. It blends well with any new or existing cloud deployment, providing interoperability with other hypervisors include KVM, VMware vSphere / ESXi or XenServer. Of course, Windows […]

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Interested in the latest container technologies? Great, here is what the openSUSE community has been working on lately. Many of our users are interested in trying out alternatives to the Docker open-source engine, so we started having look at what the larger community has to offer and, in fact, there is quite some choice. In […]

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During the the last couple of years, I have needed to build and rebuild many virtual machines. As a SUSE Sales Engineer, I demonstrate SUSE solutions to customers and need to be able to rebuild demonstration VMs quickly using a repeatable method. Machinery and KIWI are tools that have helped me build customized SUSE Linux […]

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As fortune 500 organizations across all industries are transforming into software businesses to compete in quickly changing markets, we were interested in understanding what our ISVs were planning to do to leverage containers to support their customers’ transformation.   Most of the research surveying container solutions thus far is focused on how organizations transform their IT […]

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