SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Z and LinuxONE
For more than 20 years, businesses have trusted their mission-critical applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Z and LinuxONE – an ultra-reliable, scalable, secure platform built to power physical, virtual and cloud-based workloads.
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Why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Z and LinuxONE?
SUSE is the #1 Linux provider for IBM mainframes. Our partnership with IBM means you can confidently rely on our joint engineering excellence for your mission-critical environments.
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Increased security and data protection
Designed to run large numbers of workloads in full isolation at scale, with enterprise-grade confidentiality and protection of sensitive data from internal and external threats across your hybrid cloud environment.
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Advanced RAS
Provides next level availability and ensures the highest levels of security while reducing your planned and unplanned downtime. SUSE Live Patching for IBM Z and LinuxONE maximizes system uptime and availability.
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Maximum performance and efficiency
Supports the latest technology advances for performance and operational efficiency across the full range of IBM Z and LinuxONE systems. SUSE systems management tools dramatically reduce the complexity of mainframe systems maintenance.
Top 4 Features
IBM Z and LinuxONE systems run large, mixed workloads environments with very little downtime. SLES on IBM Z & LinuxOne helps you save on licensing and leverage virtualization, cloud, containerization and cryptography technologies.
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High Performance and Throughput
- Optimized performance tuning with a rich set of commands to collect and analyze performance and trace data
- Ability to use SIMD instructions in user space for analytics workloads and math libraries.
- Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT) support improves performance through shared resource utilization.
Security and Data Protection
- Secure Execution enablement provides a trusted environment designed to protect and isolate critical workloads.
- Connection to RACF, ACF2 and Top Secret
- AppArmor security framework and SELinux.
- Support for the latest cryptographic adapters for advanced data protection.
Virtualization
- Store Hypervisor Information (STHYI) from LPAR is available in KVM.
- Non-privileged user-space applications running on KVM can retrieve hypervisor capacity data through the LPAR if not provided by the Linux kernel.
- Multiple paths let you establish multiple connections between the same two z/VM guests resulting in better scalability for z/VM Linux data exchange and improved performance
RAS
- Advanced high availability Linux services are included with every subscription - offers a clustered file system for Linux on IBM Z Systems
- Delivers all the essential monitoring, messaging and cluster resource management features in an integrated suite of open source technologies.
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