SUSE LINUX Administrators

[gizmo666]

Anyone out there who is a SUSE Administrator? Other than Redhat, how is the usability and stability of this operating system to run file sharing, private cloud storage containers?

 

[Rock-kun]

Can't speak for SLES, but have used OpenSUSE as a desktop and was stable.

I would expect a server-oriented environment to be much more stable, especially for the enterprise version.

Only tried file sharing using Samba and was okay (every distribution has Samba and smb.conf anyway). No experience with cloud containers.

 

[davidktw]

Anyone out there who is a SUSE Administrator? Other than Redhat, how is the usability and stability of this operating system to run file sharing, private cloud storage containers?

It should work just fine. My only acquaintance with SLES is for Novell IAM deployment in AWS. It is basically still the Linux kernel, just a distro with its own flavour. You should give more focus on the actual packages/products and their versions and features on the stability of your solution.

If you want to find out more in depth, just go to AWS and startup an instance and trial it. If it works there, it will work just fine in your physical environment.

 

[gizmo666]

I read that it is possible to create a huge storage cluster using containers from different sites, and managing these resources using Openstack and shared as a single big repository.

So, in theory, it is possible to build based on single common architecture of sharing structure and have these available globally to all offices while having sort of a "redundancy" mechanism right?

All I need to do is to replace any failed hardware at any of the site office, and there should have a "auto recovery" feature in SUSE?

Any experts here can advise my understanding?

 

[davidktw]

I read that it is possible to create a huge storage cluster using containers from different sites, and managing these resources using Openstack and shared as a single big repository.

So, in theory, it is possible to build based on single common architecture of sharing structure and have these available globally to all offices while having sort of a "redundancy" mechanism right?

All I need to do is to replace any failed hardware at any of the site office, and there should have a "auto recovery" feature in SUSE?

Any experts here can advise my understanding?

There are a lot of things at stake here, not just a matter of which Linux distro you use. There are large storage solution that can span across racks, across data centres even globally, but you will need to get yourself involved in infrastructure level complexities.

If you want, here is something I know which is a block level high redundancy large storage solution from Ceph. Go do some research on it Ceph has been bought over by Redhat.

Making your storage solution globally available to the offices doesn’t mean they have to spread all over the world. You will get into latency and bandwidth issue which performance or availability will need to be sacrificed depending on how you segregate

Perhaps this is what you are looking for? SUSE enterprise storage - This is commercial packaging for Ceph.

Meanwhile I am not sure of your business use cases, redundancy, enterprising standards, however I would recommend that you will want to look at AWS S3 and Storage Gateway before you start at building your own storage solution.

 

[zeebrugge]

Can't speak for SLES, but have used OpenSUSE as a desktop and was stable.

Not an expert either and similarly all I used was openSUSE, what I can suggest is that Suse has been acquired by MicroFocus since its days at Novell and they are an interesting company young techies might wanna have a look at. Small outfit. Office at Harbourfront iirc. PS: Look beyond the product, you won't wanna have a accreditation license in a product that has no market, if they are here already surely there is a demand of sorts.