good sollution for running SAP workloads
Updated May 22, 2025

good sollution for running SAP workloads

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Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

We're running our SAP application servers and Hana databases exclusively on Suse products. Our application servers on SLES, our Hana databases on SLES for SAP. So far, I've been impressed by the ease of use of Suse products. The documentation from Suse and SAP covered almost every problem I ran into so far, and the few problems I wasn't able to solve were promptly handled by suse support.

Pros

  • the learning curve and setup time are very reasonable
  • the support engineers are fast, friendly, polite and know what they're doing
  • the quality of the documentation is very high

Cons

  • sometimes it takes too long for new versions of packages to appear in SUSE's repositories
  • some open-source solutions that are valuable don't end up in the official repo at all (but you can install them from the OpenSUSE repo)
  • sometimes niche topics aren't covered in the documentation
  • competent support staff
  • good documentation
  • competitive pricing
  • none so far
We've been using this OS for about 8 years in a productive environment. During this time, we have never run into any problems that stopped or impacted our production environment. We have been able to solve any problem we ran into using either common sense, suse documentation or suse support.
For running SAP workloads, I'd definitely recommend using SLES. AIX is running on power infrastructure which is very pricey and RedHat required a different license and a lot more parameterization to get SAP up and running properly.

Do you think SUSE Linux Enterprise Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server's feature set?

Yes

Did SUSE Linux Enterprise Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server again?

Yes

Suse is very well suited for running sap workloads. It has never failed us so far, the package selection and documentation make it very easy to set up our servers and run our workloads without any hiccups. As I personally see it, Suse is an enterprise Linux distribution, it is best suited for supported industry applications. It might be less suited for running open-source (unsupported) applications

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Feature Ratings

Operating System
9.8
Resource Allocation
10
File Management
10
Hardware Device Management
10
Software Application Management
10
System Update Frequency
9
Operating System Security
10

Using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

10 - system engineers who are responsible for the SAP landscape. Offcourse, we have thousands of users using the SAP landscape itself, but i did not include them into the number of users.

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