SUSE Linux Enterprise Server для SAP

SUSE is a supplier corporate solutions Linux which increase flexibility of dynamic IT infrastructure, at the same time reducing the price and simplifying it. Producing wide range of products, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise, universal platform for crucial calculations, SUSE allows the organizations to provide surely IT services in a physical, virtual and cloud environment. Thanks to the products awarded many awards and an ecosystem of partners, solutions of SUSE serve thousands of the organizations around the world.

The version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP OS can save time of the IT administrators who are engaged in service of the corresponding corporate software.

Within cooperation with SAP the solutions which are built in SUSE, allowing to simplify installation and updating of OS together with an applied set of programs of SAP were created. The created solution supports the broad range of SAP products, including SAP Business Suite, SAP Business All-in-One, SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer.

The new distribution kit is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 with a packet of SP1 (Service Pack 1). It has the specialized environment for the facilitated installation of SAP applications and also the system libraries and other tools, necessary for work, necessary for this corporate software.

Also the distribution kit is delivered with a number of the functions expanding possibilities of the software of SAP on work in different environments. It includes the copy of SUSE of Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension allowing administrators to create complete remote backup copies of a system and to quickly start them on production servers. Besides, a system has a number of innovations for support of volume databases and tables.

In November, 2011 at the SAPPHIRE NOW conference + SAP TechEd SUSE called the customers and partners who selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, as the platform for SAP applications. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the optimal platform for the customers and partners using a SAP software on Linux including Dell and REALTECH. Users select SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications to optimize, stabilize and improve execution of intergrirovanny solutions to manage crucial workloads more effectively and economically.

Released in February, 2011, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications already proved as the reliable and managed solution. The built-in means of fault tolerance help to provide the continuity of work of services, key for business, and to optimize loading of hardware resources. Besides, through SAP Solution Manager customers get support from SUSE, including prolongation of updates service packets up to 18 months that the user could update the platform in time, convenient for it.

"We are glad to our cooperation with SAP which continues about 10 years", - Michael Miller, the vice-president of SUSE on marketing and merges says. "We hope, as next decade use of Linux as platforms for SAP solutions will allow our customers to reduce operating expenses and to increase reliability of crucial applications".

Close interaction of SUSE and SAP provides to customers of the whole world only additional benefits from consolidation of products and services, and comprehensive service of the operating system and technical support. In September, 2011 SUSE announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS was selected for work with the SAP HANA platform.

'With the SAP applications working at SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE continues to build a reliable partner ecosystem in the market, offering the most demanded technologies for the solutions similar to SAP HANA', - Sali Stephens (Sally Stevens, Vice president of Platform Marketing, Dell) says. 'We help to organize easy implementation of the SAP applications working at SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and started on the Dell PowerEdge servers, we provide the user support of Enterprise of the server expected for their SAP environment".

"We see SAP HANA as the future in analytics and we provide the user support necessary for migration and work of a SAP software on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server" - Christian Schmitt (Christian Schmitz, consulting manager at REALTECH) REALTECH, the company providing a full range of services in the consulting connected with SAP solutions and also software supplier which helps to optimize IT infrastructure at the enterprise level for the purpose of effective implementation of business processes and performance improvement of users says.

2017: Support of a cloud platform of Google Cloud Platform is implemented

In July, 2017 the SUSE company stated that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, the operating system for SAP solutions, got support of a cloud platform of Google (Google Cloud Platform/GCP). According to developers, the SAP applications working at the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications platform in GCP allow to make work of the enterprises of more flexible and to reduce operating expenses as users pay only for what they use, quickly developing applications, crucial for business.

According to Nadzhi Almakhmud (Naji Almahmoud), the vice president for global alliances of SUSE company, thanks to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications users save time, efforts and money on the GCP platform, passing to the SAP applications including working in DPC or developed at the request of century cloud. "Support of a cloud platform of Google Cloud Platform gives the chance of the choice of a method of deployment of applications SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA most of which we accept for the enterprise" — he emphasized.

After mastering of a cloud platform of Google Cloud Platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications works at platforms of all three largest cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure now.

2015

Support of SAP HANA is implemented

On August 6, 2015 the SUSE company announced support of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications of the SAP HANA system on the IBM Power System SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications platforms^[1].

Submission of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, 2015

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first server Linux OS working at the Power Systems platform and first, supporting SAP HANA. It gives to customers several advantages in connection with a recent exit of a series of specialized solutions of IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA. Solutions can be configured under specific requests of the customer for crucial analytics in real time and provide high availability, reliability and simplicity of service.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4 for SAP Applications is the platform for the IBM Power systems supporting SAP HANA constructed on the platform of recently upgraded versions SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 4 High Availability Extension.

by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP it is placed in Amazon Web Services

On October 22, 2015 the SUSE company announced availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Using the "own subscription" program ("bring-your-own-subscription"), customers can use the available subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications for start and testing of workloads of SAP in AWS. As a result customers purchase all advantages of flexible infrastructure of AWS when using the host of Linux platform for SAP solutions that the IT for the solution of quickly changing business tasks allows to adapt quickly.

SAP SE Relies on SUSE (2015)

The solution gives the chance to customers to develop workloads of SAP on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server servers in AWS for development and testing, providing at the same time quick and convenient access to a cloud of AWS.

As a part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications in AWS trial version of resource agents of high availability to deployment of the SAP HANA platform that provides fault tolerance of HANA with regular means of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications - it is recommended and the supported operating system for work with SAP HANA created on the SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 platform - the reliable, scalable and safe platform for effective deployment and management of high-available IT services of the corporate level in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. Customers of SUSE can transfer the existing subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications to AWS by normal online registration.

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