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SUSE Studio Onsite & System z

SUSE Studio Onsite & System z

James Tan

June 14, 2011
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  1. SUSE ® Studio Onsite & System z ® An Overview

    James Tan Engineering Manager, SUSE Studio Online SUSE Linux Products GmbH Wolfgang Engel SUSE Studio, S/390 and zSeries System Administrator SUSE Linux Products GmbH
  2. 2 Agenda • Overview of SUSE Studio • Demo -

    Configuration and Building - Testdrive - Deployment • Questions and Feedback
  3. 4 Appliance Defined A software application combined with an operating

    system designed to run on industry-standard hardware, virtual machine, or cloud environment APP APP OS OS CONFIG CONFIG
  4. 5 Appliances Reduce Installation and Support Costs Integrated, complete solution

    Press play installation Deployable across platforms Simpler support and maintenance Appliance
  5. 6 The SUSE Appliance Toolkit Build Manage Maintain + Simplify

    Maintenance + Simplify Deployments + Customize the OS The SUSE Appliance Toolkit is a collection of tools designed to improve the efficiency of building, managing and maintaining software appliances. www.novell.com/products/suse-appliance-toolkit/
  6. 7 The SUSE ® Appliance Toolkit Components Build Manage Maintain

    SUSE Studio Onsite: Behind firewall stand-alone version of SUSE Studio Kiwi Support: Fully supported, command line scriptable appliance creation behind the firewall, integrates with SUSE Studio SUSE Lifecycle Management Server: Serves updates, includes access control to restrict access to repositories, allows for multiple update streams or channels WebYaST: Provides YaST functionality through a web interface
  7. 8 SUSE ® Studio Easiest, Fastest Way to Create Appliances

    SUSE Studio Online • Free hosted appliance creation tool • Builds appliance in just a few minutes and with a few clicks • Offers SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 11 SP1, SLE 10 SP4, and openSUSE 11.4 as supported base OS • Minimal version of SUSE Linux Enterprise (JeOS) creates streamlined efficient appliances • Supports 32-bit (ix86) and 64-bit (x86_64) architectures • Output formats include Xen, KVM, VMware, VirtualBox, OVF, Live CD/DVD, Preload ISO, disk images for USB sticks and hard disks, Amazon EC2 • Includes SUSE Gallery for showcasing appliances • Try it out at http://susestudio.com SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 • Supported, behind-the-firewall and stand-alone version of SUSE Studio • Everything available in Studio Online, plus: • Support for System z images (zFCP and DASD) • Private appliance sharing with specific users • Output PXE/Netboot format for easy data-center deployments
  8. Unpublished Work of SUSE. All Rights Reserved. This work is

    an unpublished work and contains confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information of SUSE. Access to this work is restricted to SUSE employees who have a need to know to perform tasks within the scope of their assignments. No part of this work may be practiced, performed, copied, distributed, revised, modified, translated, abridged, condensed, expanded, collected, or adapted without the prior written consent of SUSE. Any use or exploitation of this work without authorization could subject the perpetrator to criminal and civil liability. General Disclaimer This document is not to be construed as a promise by any participating company to develop, deliver, or market a product. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. SUSE makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents of this document, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. The development, release, and timing of features or functionality described for SUSE products remains at the sole discretion of SUSE. Further, SUSE reserves the right to revise this document and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. All SUSE marks referenced in this presentation are trademarks or registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
  9. 14 Maintain with SUSE ® Lifecycle Management Server Update and

    maintenance of deployed software appliances. Unified update mechanism, federating updates for all components of the appliance. Repository management, staging repositories support for quality assurance Authentication, entitlement and access control required to distribute updates. Management of essential customer data, interface to CRM systems
  10. 15 Build with KIWI Scriptable command line tool that builds

    software images from a description file. The core image creation engine integrated into SUSE ® Studio. Automated build tools, as a KIWI script can be called to create new appliances automatically when a new build is available. KIWI is provided free to the community.
  11. 16 Manage with WebYaST Web-based management interface for full visibility

    into the configuration, health and performance of your SUSE ® Linux Enterprise Configuration of software appliances (Modules include: storage, bootloader, timezone, software appliance management updates, user management, hardware customization) Administration of installed system (Modules include: Status, soft-shutdown, reboot, monitoring, license/EULA and registration, service start/stop/status)
  12. End