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1. Build Your Own Software Appliances Michal Svec Senior Product Manager msvec@novell.com James Tan Senior Software Engineer jatan@novell.com
2. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Agenda SUSE ® Appliance Toolkit Overview SUSE Studio Onsite Demo Questions
3. Overview SUSE ® Appliance Toolkit
4. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Keeping the Momentum 71,493 325,445 4,972 Registered users are using SUSE Studio Online Appliances have been built ISVs are using SUSE Studio Online SUSE Studio “a product of the year” . eWeek SUSE ® Studio “The 10 Coolest Open-Source Products Of 2009” ChannelWeb SUSE Studio 2010 Codie Award Finalist
5. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 What Are Software Appliances? Systems with one task in mind: serving an application Pre-configured disk image containing an application, middleware, database, and minimal operating system Deploy directly on a server as a hard-drive image Or as a virtual machine to be loaded on a hypervisor The image has little "last mile" setup required and is a plug and play experience
6. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 Benefits of Software Appliances Simplify demos and evaluations Extend applications to the cloud Applications do not need to be re-certified Reduce development and support costs
7. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Target Audiences Enterprises ISVs SUSE Appliance Program SUSE ® Linux Enterprise
8. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 The SUSE ® Appliance Toolkit Build Manage Maintain + Simplify Maintenance + Simplify Deployments + Streamline the OS The SUSE Appliance Toolkit is a collection of tools designed to improve the efficiency of building, managing and maintaining software appliances.
9. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 The SUSE ® Appliance Toolkit Components SUSE Studio Onsite WebYaST SUSE Lifecycle Management Server Build Manage Maintain
10. SUSE ® Studio
11. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 SUSE ® Studio Online Free hosted service that allows fast and easy creation and testing of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server based software appliances
12. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 SUSE ® Studio Onsite SUSE Studio “a product of the year” . eWeek SUSE Studio “The 10 Coolest Open- Source Products Of 2009” ChannelWeb Stand-alone version of SUSE Studio behind your firewall Build appliances based on: SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS SUSE Linux Enterprise or openSUSE ® Supported formats: USB Stick/ hard disk image Live CD (.iso) VMware/Virtual Box (.vmdk) Xen Virtual Machine Soon: Hyper-V, OVF, EC2
13. SUSE ® Lifecycle Management Server
14. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 SUSE ® Lifecycle Management Server Core Features • Unified update mechanism, which federates updates for all components of a software appliance • Authentication, entitlement and access control to distribute updates • Repository management, which stages repository support for quality assurance • Management of essential customer data and interface to CRM systems
15. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 15 SUSE ® Lifecycle Management Server Notable Features • Web-based configuration and management • Using existing update stack for applying updates • Support for Content Distribution Networks
16. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 16 Other Management Options • Use existing tools – Create images with SUSE ® Studio that integrate with your existing management environment by baking the management client into the build • Subscription Management Tool – Mirror and push patches, patch staging, patch level reports, “Sneaker-net” for disconnected environments, supportconfig proxy/management http://www.novell.com/media/media.php?media=smt-sles-11-additional-value • Novell ® ZENworks ® Linux Management – Push applications and data, policy-driven configuration, inventory, reporting, remote control, web-based admin
17. WebYaST
18. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 18 WebYaST Overview WebYaST is a framework and a collection of modules providing a stylish, easy-to-use, and low-cost approach to packaging an appliance with the minimal configuration interface necessary for its set up. Y
19. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 19 WebYaST What Is it? WebYaST is a web based remote console plugging into a stateless HTTP REST interface exposed by SUSE ® Linux Enterprise-based appliances. Providing a subset of YaST configuration modules, WebYast delivers enough remote configuration to enable user control of an appliance's “black box” environment. The WebYaST product is the module collection and framework supporting them. Y
20. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 20 Y WebYaST Modules Initial configuration wizard Time, timezone, NTP Status, soft-shutdown, reboot Monitoring (configurable) Update Network License/EULA and registration Users Service start/stop/status Log visualization
21. Demo
22. Questions?
23. © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 23 z SUSE Appliance Toolkit Learn about the fastest way to Build, Manage and Maintain new workloads! www.novell.com/toolkit Try SUSE ® Studio Online Build an appliance with a few mouse clicks. Customize it to your heart's content, and share it with the world! http://susestudio.com/ Demos Check out recorded demos. Search for “Studio”. http://www.novell.com/media/ Next Steps Reach Out to Your Novell ® Sales Contact or contact Sabine Soellheim – ssoellheim@novell.com
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