Linux Administration Archives

November 11, 2019 6:34 pm

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If You Think Producing Good Product Documentation is Expensive, try Calculating the Cost of Not Having It

When last we met (How to Keep Customers Happy and Liking Us a Lot, part 1), I discussed the importance of product documentation, and how merely flinging code out the door is not adequate for a fabulous enterprise open source company. Today I talk a bit about the cost of not having good product documentation. […]

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technical Solutions

By: dakechi

August 29, 2018 4:35 pm

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How to upgrade your SUSE SAP HANA cluster in an easy way

Upgrading your SAP HANA Cluster is too complex? Not anymore! Check out the new yast2-hana-update. Installing a Mission Critical Application environment is always complex, time-consuming and, as the description states, critical! This kind of environment always expects a high-available solution, and therefore, a cluster setup usually takes place, and it involves many different layers of […]

Categories: Announcements, S/4HANA, SAP Solutions, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE News

By: Drew

February 15, 2018 5:46 pm

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SR-IOV – The way to share real virtualized host devices with a virtual machine

Single Root I/O Virtualization or SR-IOV is a specification that allows the isolation of PCI Express (PCIe) resources. It allows a physical PCIe device or adapter to appear as one or more separate physical/virtual PCIe devices. These virtualized devices are also known as Virtual Function (VF) devices. Two main reasons or purposes for SR-IOV are: […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Linux, Integrated Systems, Partners, Server, Server and Application Virtualization, SUSE in the Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE News, Virtualization

By: Drew

December 4, 2017 11:24 am

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System YES Certification with a PTF or another maintenance update

During a typical YES Certification of a server or workstation, the Gold Master (GM) release of SUSE Linux Enterprise with the latest Service Pack (SP) is installed on the hardware during certification tests. Sometimes, the GM release needs specific fixes or updates in order to be compatible with a particular hardware platform. As hardware systems […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Desktop, Enterprise Linux, Integrated Systems, Partners, Server, Server and Application Virtualization, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Virtualization

By: Chris Mertens

July 13, 2017 12:05 pm

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The holy cluster. Part 2 HAE Setup

Welcome to part 2! Still not braindead after part one (Holy Cluster Part 1 ISCSI Setup)? Fantastic! So here we go. In part 1 I showed you how to setup ISCSI shared storage for the cluster. In this second part I will show you how to set up the HAE server, including creating the STONITH […]

Categories: Enterprise Linux, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Chris Mertens

July 11, 2017 11:34 am

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The holy cluster. Part 1 ISCSI Setup

Since I need to support quite some customers using High Availability Clustering I was quite often in the need to of having a test lab where I can try re-producing customer issues. Sometimes even trying to understand customer issues as well ;-). So I thought hey there must be a complete guide A-Z on how […]

Categories: Enterprise Linux, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Drew

June 21, 2017 4:05 pm

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Hardware YES Certification with an installation kit or driver kit (also known as kISO)

An installation or driver kit from SUSE is simply a method to deliver the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise related drivers or other software in a packaged and supported bootable image. Installation kits can be used for any of the following reasons: To update storage drivers, which require very early loading in the installation and boot […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Desktop, Enterprise Linux, Expert Views, Integrated Systems, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Power Systems, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: SUSE

May 24, 2017 9:08 am

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Setting up SUSE Manager in the Public Cloud

As companies migrate and run new workloads into the public cloud, the IT challenges organizations face doesn’t change. Organizations need the ability to schedule updates and security patches to their Linux systems. The ability to review and validate systems have been updated or patched is equally important. At SUSE, we offer SUSE Manager that […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Cloud and as a Service Solutions, Cloud Computing, SUSE Manager Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

By: SUSE

April 17, 2017 7:51 am

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Integrating SUSE Linux Enterprise Instances With Amazon EC2 Systems Manager

At AWS re:Invent 2016 Amazon announced the availability of Amazon EC2 Systems Manager. AWS SSM is a collection of capabilities that helps automate management tasks in a hybrid cloud environment. This provides the ability to manage your existing on-premise infrastructure seamlessly with AWS. Some of the features available in AWS SSM include: Run Command - […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, SUSE in the Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: SUSE

April 4, 2017 7:15 am

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Your First SLES Container

Introduction: How do you trust the random Docker hub package out there that may or may not have open-sourced their Dockerfile? It may be fine for experimenting with the Docker platform, but for mission critical applications, it’s best to know exactly what’s involved. Docker in SLES gives you all of the power of […]

Categories: Containers, Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions