SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is the leading OS for a secure and reliable SAP platform. Chosen by SAP customers and partners, it futureproofs the SAP project, offers uninterrupted business, and minimizes operational risks and costs as a secure foundation for SAP projects, ensuring the highest certifications, best practices alignment, and long-term support for most SAP scenarios from the data center to the SAP cloud.
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Why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications?
Safeguard your business continuity, futureproof your SAP project, and minimize risks and costs with a secure foundation for your SAP projects from your on-premises SAP S/4HANA to SAP Cloud.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications (SLES for SAP) ensures your SAP project in the longest term anywhere. Proven by SAP customers and the ecosystem, SLES for SAP offers the longest lifecycle, aligning with your SAP plans, provides automation from deployment to operation to avoid error-prone tasks, and offers continuous validation for best practices to safeguard the environment over time with Trento. It is endorsed by SAP and certified by default by all its partners, providing the trust and reliability that your SAP project needs.
For a continuous business, the target for the SAP platform is zero downtime improving service availability and minimizing risks. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications provides a reliable SAP infrastructure, simplified operation, and features designed to avoid planned and unplanned downtimes like live patching and a leading High Availability technology, together with Trento that ensures the best practices alignment on the long term, resulting in near to zero downtime and a reduced operational risk.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications improves security, streamlines compliance, and minimizes liability in the case of a security breach over the entire SAP landscape. Focused on security and based on one of the most secure operating systems, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which attains the highest level of certifications, including Common Criteria EAL4+, SLES for SAP is delivered through a certification-evaluated Secure Software Supply Chain. This minimizes vulnerabilities and guarantees a verified OS and patches. Using SLES for SAP helps enterprises and IT service providers enhance their competitiveness and trustworthiness by ensuring a more secure environment and simplifying mandatory compliance assessments.
Top 4 Features
Innovative features designed to secure your SAP platform from the SAP project, minimizing the time and effort to deploy SAP services with automation, maximizing SAP service uptime, increasing security, and safeguarding SAP systems to prevent errors.
Deploy SAP faster and safer with automation
Accelerate your SAP project implementation and reduce risks. Automate the complete SAP stack installation, including OS, SAP workloads and HA on all server and cloud platforms to speed up your SAP project execution, ensure alignment with best practices and reduce risks removing error prone manual configurations.
Avoid delays with saptune configuration of the OS and HA configuration, optimized for specific SAP applications, and cloud or server instances.
Minimize Downtime. Increase Security.
Minimize planned and unplanned downtime with SLES for SAP. Reduce outages with HA configurations designed for SAP HANA and SAP applications and eliminate downtime for Linux security updates with live patching for kernel, libraries and applications.
Meet regulatory security requirements with the only Common Criteria EAL 4+ certified OS built in a certification-evaluated Secure Software Supply Chain. Add security to SAP HANA systems and storage data.
Avoid errors with advanced monitoring
Monitor key metrics with Prometheus exporters for server and cloud instances, SAP HANA, SAP applications, and high availability clusters operations for visualization with SUSE Manager or other graphical display tools.
Safeguard SAP Systems to Prevent Errors with Trento
Included in SLES for SAP, Trento ensures alignment with best practices, automatically discovers and enables full observability of servers, cloud instances, SAP HANA databases, SAP S/4HANA and NetWeaver applications, and clusters in SAP domain language. Improved constantly with new features and checks, Trento monitors extended HANA setup and Netweaver installations, including continuously checking of HA configurations, visualizing potential problems, integrates with SUSE Manager for patching of systems. Deploy Trento easily in your environment with or without Kubernetes. Learn more.
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