SUSE Manager 3 is now available to help customers reduce the complexities of managing their IT infrastructures, a key advantage as they look to cut costs and increase the responsiveness required to adopt DevOps and hybrid cloud solutions.
With 77 percent of enterprises adopting private clouds to increase agility and innovation, the corresponding rise in IT complexity requires the enhanced management, automation and monitoring of SUSE Manager.
SUSE Manager 3 is the latest Linux server management solution that provides comprehensive lifecycle management and monitoring for Linux servers across distributions, hardware architectures, virtual platforms and cloud environments. SUSE Manager 3 includes Salt automation software and features improved configuration management, easier subscription management and enhanced monitoring capabilities.
“SUSE Manager is built to improve IT responsiveness to changing business demands, enhancing configuration automation with the integration of Salt,” said Ralf Flaxa, president of engineering for SUSE. “SUSE Manager 3 is even more valuable to large and very complex data center environments where ease of management, scalability, performance and high availability are extremely important. Customers know manually updating, patching and configuring servers can be difficult and time consuming, but SUSE Manager solves that problem while reducing costs with automated, centralised management of their Linux systems.”
Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president for enterprise system management software at IDC, said, “SUSE Manager 3 represents an important extension of functionality that directly addresses the needs of today’s DevOps and hybrid cloud management teams. SUSE Manager’s new integration with Salt delivers customers a single integrated tool that moves beyond traditional Linux server provisioning and power management to enable much more automated and scalable configuration, provisioning, patch management, monitoring and reporting for mixed Linux platforms deployed in physical, virtual or cloud infrastructures.”
SUSE Manager 3 is the best open source IT management solution to manage multiple Linux distributions, hardware platforms including x86, IBM Power Systems and z Systems, as well as physical, virtual and cloud environments – all from a centralised console. Key new benefits include:
· Increased IT efficiency with improved configuration management via Salt. Using Salt-based configuration management, customers can deploy tens of thousands of systems without compromising speed or security. With real-time configuration and monitoring, the time to patch hundreds or even thousands of servers in large environments is significantly reduced.
· Optimised use and management of SUSE subscriptions. The new subscription management tool in SUSE Manager provides detailed insights into usage of SUSE products, identifying the over or under utilisation of subscriptions. This helps ensure customers pay only for subscriptions they need, when they need them.
· Reduced IT complexity with enhanced monitoring capabilities using the Nagios-compatible Icinga monitoring server. Monitoring integration with Icinga enables additional reporting capabilities and provides easy-to-use monitoring solutions and flexibility to add-on management functions. Customers also have the flexibility to use existing in-house monitoring solutions with SUSE Manager, improving control and management of IT assets.
“SUSE’s use of Salt in SUSE Manager 3 enhances not only configuration management but also predictive orchestration needed for modern enterprise Linux environments,” said Mark Chenn, CEO of SaltStack. “With the highly scalable, flexible and real-time attributes of Salt automation software, SUSE customers will be able to more efficiently manage cloud, virtual and bare metal Linux infrastructure and application environments, resulting in reduced administrative effort, increased IT productivity and improved security and reliability.”