FUT89014 - SLES for POWER Trends and Roadmap

Jay KruemckeProduct Managerjayk@suse.com@mr_sles

Line Of Business Leaders Focus On Analytics For Competitiveness

1Accenture, Big Success with Big Data: Executive Summary, 2Big Data: A Competitive Weapon for the Enterprise, 3Source: IDC: Big Data & Analytics

89%

Of Business Leaders Believe Big Data Will

Revolutionize Business Operations

83%

Have Pursued Big Data Projects In Order

To Seize A Competitive Edge

26.4%

Big Data CAGR 2014-2018, 6X The Growth Rate Of The Overall

IT Market

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IT Organizations Must Deliver More Data To More People, Faster

More Analytics Users

Increased Data Volumes

Real-timeRequirements

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Slow Or Unavailable Analytics Impact Critical Business Operations

Customer Analytics• Personalized Customer Relations• Targeted Marketing Campaigns

Operational Analytics• Cost Management• Proactive Maintenance

Threat/Fraud Analytics• Personnel And Facilities Protection• Financial Loss Prevention 4

SUSE and IBM Offer a Solution for Fast and Reliable SAP Analytics

Advanced RAS capabilities optimized to support IBM Power Systems features

Improved application performance and instant access to data

A broad choice of open source and partner solutions

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• Increase reliability of mission critical applications with the ability to configure shared resource pools to control resource allocation of CPU, memory and I/O

• Reduce costs by maximizing utilization of hardware resources with memory error recovery and memory sharing

• Maximize application availability by moving workloads to better balance system resources and uptime through live VM migration with PowerKVM

• Ensure compliance with HA/DR requirements to minimize downtime with full support with SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and Geo Clustering

• Reduce downtime with rapid recovery from system update errors using full system rollback

Increase reliability & reduce costs for mission-critical applications

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Deliver a high-performance platform to meet increasing business demands

• Instantly access data by maximizing POWER8 processor performance with support for eight threads per core across the full range of Power Systems servers and OpenPOWER Abstraction Layer (OPAL) systems

• Reduce large-memory server reboot times with faster memory initialization following planned and unplanned downtime

• Improve application and platform performance by reducing latency through wire-speed messaging to fast I/O storage systems

• Increase visibility to current business data with near real-time analytics results for SAP HANA environments by maximizing the number of queries per core

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Accelerate innovation and improve deployment times • Confidently migrate applications and data with support for IBM POWER8

little endian mode, as well as PowerVM and PowerKVM virtualization technologies.

• Quickly and easily deploy new functionality without changing the core OS. Update the components without changing the base using the modular design of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, so you can balance the flexibility of the modules with the stability of your infrastructure.

• Freedom of choice: Build the solution that meets your needs from a vast ecosystem of certified hardware and software partner solutions. Leverage packages built and maintained by the community of users, approved and supported by SUSE with Package Hub.

• Improve the agility of your IT infrastructure with the latest container innovations. Using the SUSE Docker solution, your teams can easily and securely collaborate for creating Docker apps, integrate container applications with the cloud or quickly deploy Docker using a minimized host OS.

• Optimize lifecycle management and save time with a comprehensive set of installation, configuration, deployment and administration tools powered by Zypper.

SUSE and IBM Partnership

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for POWER SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is a highly reliable, scalable and secure server operating system that allows you to efficiently deploy enterprise-class IT services in physical, virtual or cloud environments.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWERKey recent events

• August 2015 – SAP HANA available for POWER • January 2016 – SLES 12 for POWER SP1

- Includes fully supported Docker containers

• July 2016 – Package Hub available for POWER (ppc64le)• October 2016 – SLES 11 SP4 for POWER Long Term Support Subscription

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2016 is the year of SAP HANA on POWER!

SUSE Linux Enterprise SP2 Overview

• What? - Upstream kernel version: 4.4 - Over 3000 packages (additional features, bug fixes, security updates)

• Supported architectures:- POWER (little endian only) - Intel/AMD64-bit (x86_64) - IBM System z and Linux One (zSystem) - ARM 64 bit (AArch64)

• When?- First Customer Shipment: November SUSECON 2016

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Power LC Systems Support

Power LC Systems Support

System Role

templates for

installation

System Role

templates for

installation

Linux Kernel 4.4

Linux Kernel 4.4

Faster boot time for large-

memory systems

Faster boot time for large-

memory systems

SLE High Availability Extension Support

SLE High Availability Extension Support

Package Hub

Package Hub

What’s New in SLES for POWER 12 SP2?

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High Availability for POWER little endian*

• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

Easy to set up and use. Deploy it in both physical and virtual environments to help maintain continuity, protect data integrity and maximize uptime for your Linux workloads.

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*Additional subscriptions required for High Availability extensions

Full Range of POWER8 Systems supported*

• Power S LC Class Servers (new)- Power S812LC- Power S822LC (8335-GTA, 8335-GCA)

• Power S Class Servers- Power S812L- Power S822L, S822- Power S814- Power S824L, S824

• Power Enterprise Servers- Power E850- Power E870- Power E880

15* IBM Power Systems Facts and Features: https://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/po/en/pob03046usen/POB03046USEN.PDF

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for POWER

Faster boot time for large-memory systems

Reduced memory initialization times for

server restart following planned and

unplanned downtime

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Up to 57% faster*

*Dependent on system configuration

System Role templates-based server installation

System Role capability enables fast, consistent server filesystem configuration using pre-defined installation pattern templates for database servers, virtualization host/guest or installation options.• Roles are defined as part of the control file

of the base product• Roles optionally define a set of patterns

that override default patterns• Roles optionally define options for storage

such as size of root partition, but cannot add a partition 17

SLES for SAP with Wizard

SLES

Enterprise User

SUSE Package Hub

• Built and maintained by the community of users

• Approved and supported by SUSE

• High-quality, up-to-date packages delivered by openSUSE Factory

• No additional charge to use packages

• Packages available for the life of the product, including multiple releases

Community Packages for SLES for POWER

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Over 350 packages available for ppc64le

SUSE Package HubUpstream packages

SLES 11 SP4 POWER Long Term Support Subscription LTSS for SLES 11 SP4 on POWER now available

• Extends support from 2019 to March of 2022

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SP1

SP2

SP3

SP4

LTSS

SLES 11 for POWER Lifecycle

SLES 12 SP1 to SP2 Migration Approaches• Media / Fully Offline

• Boot DVD (or ISO image) to upgrade without connection to any repositories on the network.

• Migration via SCC• The system, directly connected to SCC, is able to receive the new migration target and run the upgrade process.

• SUSE Manager• System behind SUSE Manager are ready to be migrated to SP2

• SMT• System behind SMT are ready to be migrated to the latest SP2

• 3rd Party Tools• Customers using 3rd Party tools are enabled to receive information about the latest SP. Access to this information is properly

documented and easily accessible

20Note: On POWER, switching from SLES 11 to SLES 12 involves a transition in architecture from big endian (ppc64) to little endian (ppc64le). Because of this transition, a regular system update is not possible.

Dates subject to change

General Lifecycle ModelTen years lifecycle + three years of Extended Support

• Thirteen year lifecycle 10 years general support plus 3 years extended support)• Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) potentially available for all version, including GA

Life Cycle and Policies

General Support

Years1-5

Years6-7

Years8-10

Years 11-13

Self Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Maintenance Patches Yes Yes Yes Yes 1

Technical Support Yes Yes Yes Yes 1

Security Patches Yes Yes Yes No

Defect Resolution Yes Yes Limited 6 No

Service Packs Yes Yes No No

Additional Hardware Enablement and Software Enhancements

Yes Limited 8 No No

Source: https://www.suse.com/support/policy.html1 Access to previously released patches with an active subscription.2 Access to patches for earlier product versions possible with optional Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS).3 Limited migration and configuration assistance provided with standard or priority subscription.4 More comprehensive installation, migration, configuration and break fix technical support available with optional LTSS.5 Only available with LTSS.6 Limited to severity level 1 and 2 defects.7 Only available with LTSS. Limited to severity level 1 and 2 defects.8 Discretionary, based on customer and partner requests.

SUSE product lifecycle pagehttp://www.suse.com/lifecycle/

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What’s next for SLES on POWER• SLES 12 SP3 in planning• SLES 13 discussions underway• SAP HANA for SLES 12

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