SUSE
®Manager
A Comprehensive Linux Server Management the Linux Way
Name
Title
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Agenda
• Product Overview
• Features and Functionality
‒ Management Module
‒ Provisioning Module
‒ Monitoring
• Roadmap
• Pricing and Licensing
Product Overview
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Data Center Challenges
Automation
Minimize unplanned downtime Ensure quality of service
Contain costs
Better utilize existing resources
Effectively manage multiple vendors
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SUSE Manager Provisioning Management Monitoring SUSE Studio
Building workloads for physical and cloud environments
SUSE
®Building Blocks for the
Linux OS Lifecycle in the Data Center
SUSE Linux Enterprise
The foundation for your data center workloads
and virtualization, from x86 to the mainframe
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Better SUSE
®Linux Enterprise Management
Points of Comparison
Y N Y Varies
Automated Y N Y Varies
Scalable Y N Y Varies
Tightly Integrated w ith SUSE Linux Enterprise Y Y N N
Y Y N Y
Supported Solution Y Y Y N
SUSE Manager
OS Administrative
Tools
Third-party Management
Suites
In-house Solutions
Complete Systems Management Functionality
- Sof tware Management - Asset Management
- Conf iguration Management - Sy stem Prov isioning
- Registration/Subscription Management - Monitoring
Uses Familiar Linux Logic and Terminoogy
To date, there has not been a solution that is tightly integrated with
SUSE Linux Enterprise and fully addresses customers' functional
server management requirements
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• Delivers best-in-class capabilities that enable enterprises to
comprehensively manage SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers with a single centralized solution
• Provides automated and cost- effective software management, asset management, system
provisioning and monitoring capabilities
• Enables customers to easily
manage Linux server deployments across physical, virtual, and cloud environments
Value Proposition
SUSE Manager
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Business Benefits
Benefit Proof Points
Slash cost of ownership
Simplify compliance
Improve service quality
• Automates system management tasks
• Eases data center expansion
• Enables more effective use of resources
• Early identification of server performance issues
• More affordable than proprietary third-party solutions
Reduce complexity of managing Linux systems
• Tightly integrated with Linux ensuring consistent management across systems
• Single solution to manage Linux workloads across a range of:
- Hardware architectures - Hypervisors
- Cloud environments
• Manages SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product extensions and appliances
• Familiar Linux logic and terminology limits need for training
• Audits software patch status
• Ensures IT staff has proper authority to manage each server
• Tracks configuration changes
• Automates hardware, software and subscription inventory
• Faster completion of management and provisioning tasks with fewer errors
• Reduces service disruptions to the business
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SUSE Manager is Open Source
What is the role of SUSE in the Spacewalk Project?
What is the Spacewalk Project?
• Upstream version of SUSE
Manager and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite Server
• Red Hat open sourced RHN Satellite (GPL v2) in June 2008
• SUSE Manager is based on Spacewalk, but SUSE has adapted it for SUSE Linux Enterprise
• SUSE is an active contributor to Spacewalk
• SUSE embraces the open
source development model and
Spacewalk is just one of the
many open source projects we
support
Features and Functionality
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Customer Center
Managed Systems SUSE Manager Server
Managed Systems
Management
Monitoring Provisioning
API Layer
SUSE Manager Proxy Server
IT Application
Custom Content
Web Interface
Firewall
How Does SUSE Manager Work?
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Modular Approach
SUSE Manager delivers complete lifecycle management for Linux servers through its management, provisioning, and monitoring
modules
Management Module
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Management Module
• NCC integration
• ZYpp update stack
• Server groups
• Custom repositories
• SUSE Manager API
• Scheduler
• Role-based access control
• Search
• Central Audit Log
• Virtual guest, appliance and System z management
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• Hardware
‒ CPU, Memory, BIOS, Network
‒ Physical location
• Software
‒ Installed packages
‒ Profiles, Reference system
Inventory
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Package Management
• Channels (package repositories)
‒ Tree-like structure
‒ Private channels
• Package operations
‒ View
‒ Verify
‒ Install
‒ Update
‒ Delete
• Profiles
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Patch and Update Management
• View pending updates
• Notifications
• Manual or automatic update
• Scheduled reboots
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SUSE Studio Integration for Image Deployment
• KVM/Xen Images
• Images are built in SUSE Studio (Online or Onsite)
• Per SUSE Manager user, a Studio account can be configured in SUSE Manager. A user can choose from all Studio images built by the account provided
• Image-based installation triggered from SUSE Manager, images are directly downloaded from Studio to the
KVM/Xen host and started up
• Auto-registration of images in SUSE Manager
• Future:
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Choose from Gallery (not just per user account)
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Deploy to physical hosts
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Deploy to OpenStack, VMware, HyperV
Provisioning Module
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Provisioning Module
• Bare-metal provisioning
• Virtual-guest provisioning
‒ Xen and KVM, soon z/VM
• Existing state provisioning
• Server roll-back
• Configuration management
• Application provisioning
• Configuration profile management
• Provisioning scripts
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Deployment
• Auto-Installation
‒ AutoYaST (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server)
‒ Kickstart (RHEL)
• Physical or virtual
• PXE boot
• Re-deployment
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Configuration Management
• Files and directories
• Organized as channels
• Profiles
• Drift-Control
Monitoring Module
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Monitoring Module
• Probes
• Probe groups
• Boundaries
• Notifications/
Alerts
• Reporting
• Graphical view
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Roadmap
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Summer Release Details
• Available Early Summer 2012
• Committed Enhancements
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New appliance build (version 1.7) based on Spacewalk 1.7 (latest upstream version)
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Server on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
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Port from Oracle backend to PostgreSQL as second database option
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Major Version and Service Pack Migration Support
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Performance improvements for channel syncing
• Likely Enhancements
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Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 and 11 Support
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Further integration into SUSE Studio
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First work on integrating with OpenStack
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Roadmap for Rest of 2012 and Beyond
• Improved user management/role based access
• Enhanced AutoYast integration – configuration management (Chef, Puppet?)
• Additional cloud readiness features
• Host Server on IBM System z – including direct VM provisioning
• Integration with SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service
• Usability for registration of servers (“discovery”, bootstrapping)
• New low-latency, low-bandwidth monitoring framework
• Integration with Partner Linux Driver Process
• SUSE Manager Mobile for iOS
Pricing and Licensing
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SUSE Manager server, proxy server and modules are sold as one- or three-year priority subscriptions and include priority support
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Subscriptions for SUSE Manager modules are purchased for each managed system per module, either for:
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A single instance (physical or virtual); or
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Unlimited instances
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Module subscriptions for System z workloads are purchased per IFL and include unlimited instances
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All modules have the same price. However, the Management Module is required for all SUSE Manager installations
Subscription (1 Year, VLA) Price (US$)
SUSE Manager Server $10,000 / host
SUSE Manager Proxy Server $2,500 / proxy
SUSE Manager Managem ent Module Single Instance $96 / managed instance
SUSE Manager Provisioning Module Single Instance $96 / managed instance
SUSE Manager Monitoring Module Single Instance $96 / managed instance
SUSE Manager Managem ent Module Unlim ited Virtual Machines $192 / managed physical server SUSE Manager Provisioning Module Unlim ited Virtual Machines $192 / managed physical server SUSE Manager Monitoring Module Unlim ited Virtual Machines $192 / managed physical server
$1,000 / IFL
$1,000 / IFL
$1,000 / IFL SUSE Manager Managem ent Module Unlim ited Virtual Machines on IBM zSeries
SUSE Manager Provisioning Module Unlim ited Virtual Machines on IBM zSeries SUSE Manager Monitoring Module Unlim ited Virtual Machines on IBM zSeries
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