A one-stop shop for a SUSE system admin
August 07, 2025

A one-stop shop for a SUSE system admin

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SUSE Manager

We have about 170 SUSE linux enterprise virtual machines, we were looking for an easy way to manage them (from bootstrapping to configuring, patching, upgrading to decomissioning). By hand, this would be an enormous task, so we looked for a platform that would help us. We chose SUSE Manager because it's vendor supported and is able to manage our infrastucture effectively.

Pros

  • update management
  • lifecycle management
  • patch management
  • configuration management
  • bootstrapping

Cons

  • upgrade procedure is sometimes a bit complex
  • api documentation could use more examples
  • licensing is a bit complex and changes over the years
  • it's a timesaver
  • it's easy to manage your subscriptions
  • gives a complete overview of the state of your SUSE products
The gui is extremely user friendly. The installation and configuration does have a learning curve, it takes a while to set everything up. But once you're passed this initial learning curve, everything is very intuitive. If you want extra automation, there's an api (eventough i personally find the documentation of the api could be ordered better). I gave this product a 9 because of the initial learning curve and the api documentation, but for the rest it suits my needs perfectly.
I tested Ansible as well, but the product doesn't really compare to SUSE Manager. Ansible is basically defining states for your systems and pushing them. SUSE Manager is a complete one-stop shop for everything a system administrator wants to do to effectively manage their systems.

Do you think SUSE Manager delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SUSE Manager's feature set?

Yes

Did SUSE Manager live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SUSE Manager go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SUSE Manager again?

Yes

I think anybody managing more than a handful of SUSE products should have a look at SUSE Manager. Once you get everything set up, it helps you from bootstrapping to configuring to licensing, keeping your configuration consistent over your landscape, patching, upgrading,... It's a one stop shop for everything you might want to do as a system admin when you have to manage SUSE products

SUSE Manager Feature Ratings

Configuration Management
9.4
Infrastructure Automation
9
Automated Provisioning
9
Parallel Execution
9
Node Management
10
Reporting & Logging
8
Inventory Control
10
Version Control
10
Role-based access control
10

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