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By: Christian Holsing

November 3, 2020 3:12 pm

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SLES and SLES for SAP 15 SP2 validated for SAP HANA

Today we have some good news to share. SAP has completed the validation of SLES 15 SP2 and SLES for SAP 15 SP2 last week which now gives customers to upgrade to the latest version of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and have a fully supported and validated environment. The validation applies to both Intel […]

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By: Jay Kruemcke

February 10, 2020 1:18 pm

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Understanding SUSE Sub-capacity pricing for IBM Power servers

Executive Summary SUSE recently updated Terms and Conditions for SUSE products to clarify the SUSE pricing policies for IBM Power systems and to accommodate Sub-capacity pricing on IBM Power servers. Sub-capacity pricing overview IBM Power servers have long been known for vertical scalability (up to 192 cores and 64TB of RAM) and for efficient PowerVM […]

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By: Jay Kruemcke

January 9, 2020 5:53 pm

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Using IBM POWER9 PowerVM Virtual Persistent Memory for SAP HANA with SUSE Linux

  Introduction SAP HANA uses in-memory database technology that allows much faster access to data than was ever possible with hard disk technology on a conventional database – access times of 5 nanoseconds versus 5 milliseconds. SAP HANA customers can also use the same database for real-time analysis and decision-making that is used for […]

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By: Jay Kruemcke

February 15, 2019 5:43 pm

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The ibmvnic driver with SR-IOV is now supported by SLES 12 and SLES 15 on IBM POWER9 processor-based systems

SUSE has worked with IBM to enable support for the ibmvnic driver with PowerVM on POWER9 systems. The ibmvnic driver enables PowerVM Single Root I/O Virtualizations (SR-IOV) for improved network capabilities including reduced systems processor utilization, decreased network latency, and enforcement of network Quality of Service. Supported SLES Levels: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service […]

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By: SUSE

October 6, 2016 9:39 am

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Long term support for SLES 11 SP4 for POWER

SUSE announces Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4 on POWER. Maintaining support for Linux IT infrastructure is a key requirement, particularly for complex business critical systems such as SAP HANA. SUSE has seen a tremendous increase in the adoption of SAP HANA on IBM POWER systems […]

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By: Andreas Jaeger

April 1, 2015 2:23 am

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Machinery 1.5 with System z and Power Support, Red Hat Inspection Fixes, Skipping Files

Alfred complained to the machinery team that he could not run machinery on System z and Power systems and run into a few issues with the Red Hat inspection. The machinery team has now released for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 an update of the "Advanced Systems Management" module and made the module available for […]

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By: Nathan Barney

April 23, 2013 7:45 am

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IBM PowerLinux Continues Support for openSUSE Build Service (OBS)

Today, over on the openSUSE site, our own Jos Poortvliet posted a blog discussing the recent work between IBM and SUSE to add more build capability to the openSUSE Build Service. The Power guys provided a couple of boxes so openSUSE can increase package build capacity for the Power platform on the Open Build Service […]

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