The document outlines SUSE's offerings and partnerships related to Hadoop and big data, highlighting its certified compatibility with leading Hadoop platforms. It emphasizes features such as reliability, scalability, security, and management capabilities of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, making it a suitable foundation for Hadoop deployments. Additionally, it provides resources for best practices in deploying and managing Hadoop on SUSE systems.

1. SUSE for Hadoop & Big Data
Stephen Mogg
SUSE UK
October 2014

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About SUSE
• Established 1992
• Original Provider of Enterprise Linux
About Me
• SUSE Employee 4 years
• Systems Engineer

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If you want to know more about SUSE
• New Certifications
• New Resources
• New Lab

4. SUSE for Hadoop

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Big Data Reference Architecture
Operating System OS / Cloud Platform
Source: Hortonworks Modern Data Architecture - http://hortonworks.com/partner/suse/

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SUSE Big Data Reference Architecture
Source: Hortonworks Modern Data Architecture - http://hortonworks.com/partner/suse/

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SUSE Big Data Partners
Hadoop Data Systems
Applications Services

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Certified for Leading Hadoop Platforms
Additional level of testing
and quality assurance to
make sure SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server
integrates with partner
software, saving our
customers time while
providing them with an
assurance of
interoperability.
We hereby declare that
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
is officially certified for:
Cloudera CDH 5
Hortonworks HDP2

9. Market Leadership

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SUSE in High Performance
“Teradata's extensive
financial, technical,
and management
resources can
create a unique,
high-performance
Hadoop appliance
that few other
vendors can match.”
– Forrester Feb 2014
High Performance Computing
‒ Half of the world's largest super computer
clusters run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Mainframe Computing
‒ Over 80% of all Linux running on mainframe
computers is SUSE Linux
SAP Hana
‒ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the
recommended OS for the market leading
analytics appliance, SAP HANA.
Teradata
‒ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the OS
foundation for Hadoop in the Aster Big Analytics
Appliance
IBM Watson
‒ Power artificial intelligence computer runs SUSE
Linux and Hadoop

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What Makes an Optimal Foundation
for Hadoop?
SLAs and
Business Continuity
Resource Utilization
and Efficiency
Security and
Compliance
Affordable, No
Vendor Lock-in

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Power, Scalability
Reliability, Availability,Serviceability:
Swap-over NFS
Built-in open source multi-path IO
CPU/Memory hot-plugging
Horizontal/Vertical Scalability:
Large capacity and faster system
interconnect (OFED, Infiniband)
A rock-solid, certified
foundation for deploying
Hadoop clusters.
Huge Data, Massive Compute:
4096 logical CPU
64 TiB RAM
Supports latest Intel CPUs:
Ivy Bridge v2
Haswell
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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Flexibility, Agility
Massively Scalable Private
Cloud Implementations
Deploy pre-configured
Hadoop clusters on
KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, ESXi
Spin up fully configured and
optimized Hadoop Cluster in
minutes for dev/test
Scale-out Hadoop cluster
Infrastructure easily
API for Cloud-aware
Applications
SUSE Cloud
Hadoop in the Cloud:
OpenStack based
enterprise ready IaaS Cloud
Platform.

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Improve Resource Utilization and Efficiency
Batch Command Speeds Up
Cluster Implementation
Centralized Server
Infrastructure Management
Software and Patch
Management for Linux and
Hadoop
Batch-deploy config files to
entire Hadoop cluster
Asset Management
and Reporting
Application and
Infrastructure Monitoring
SUSE Manager
A perfect complement
to the monitoring and
management capabilities
provided in the Hadoop
cluster management
software.

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Security and Certifications
90% of companies cite data access and data protection as either extremely or very important
security capabilities. - IDG Big Data Survey 2014
Security Features SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
System Hardening YaST2 Security Center
Application Confinement AppArmor
System Confinement SE Linux (stack support)
Intrusion Detection (file system) AIDE
Fine-grained Access Rights File system POSIX capabilities
Encryption Capabilities Three ways: Full disk, Volume, Filesystem
(eCryptFS)
Certifications Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 IPv6 (refresh)
Measure and Monitor System Integrity During
Trusted Platform Modules (TPM)—Trusted
Reboot
Computing
System Requirements for Cryptographic Modules FIPS 140-2 Validation for OpenSSL
Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation Common Criteria Certification for SP2
(x86 64 with KVM; IBM System z)

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Summary: Key Features and Benefits
Key Features Benefits
Reliability,
Availability,
Serviceability,
Scalability
Swap over NFS Cut cost with less expensive diskless servers
Kernel 3.0 Enhanced RAS capabilities
Intel Ivy-Bridge 2 and Haswell Support Harness the latest CPU technologies and provides
excellent 4096 Logical CPU, 64TiB RAM Support vertical scalability
InfiniBand, iSCSI Target (LIO) and OFED Faster connectivity with networking and storage equipment
Dual Hypervisor Support: Xen and KVM
Cross-platform Maximum choice both as a host and as a guest
Virtualization
Optimized for vSphere, Hyper-V, Open
Source Hypervisors
Linux Containers Light weight OS level virtualization
UEFI Secure Boot Less malicious attach risk in boot
Security and
Compliance
FIPS 140-2 Validation and Common
Criteria Certification Security standard compliance
AppArmor Protects from external/internal threats and zero-day
attacks
Integrated System
Management
Snapper and BTRFS Snapshot and rollback for easy management
YaST, AutoYaST and Zypp Integrated single system management and fast update
tools
Interop with
Other Platforms
SAMBA 3.6 Compatible with Windows
IPv6 Compliance Networking with IPv6 equipment

17. SUSE Big Data Resources

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Hadoop on SLES
Best Practices White Paper:
• Deployment scenarios
• Proposed Architecture using SLES
• Infrastructure considerations
• Basic optimization of the Linux OS
• Installation and configuration of Hadoop
on SLES

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SUSE Manager and Hadoop
Step-by-step guide for using SUSE
Manager to deploy Cloudera on SLES:
• Automate OS provisioning
• Deploy new servers with identical
characteristics
• Auto-deployment of RPM-based applications
• Centralize management of configuration files
• Connect to SUSE Customer Center for
updates
• Create / manage multiple organizations from a
single remote console.
• Create customized repositories
• Maintain the security of enterprise systems
• Leverage the SUSE Manager API to create
custom scripts to manage tasks or integrate
third-party applications and management
tools

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Hadoop / HP Reference Architecture
HP Reference Architechture:
• Written by SUSE, HP & Hortonworks,
• Proposed Architecture using SLES
• HP Recommends SLES

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SUSE Big Data Lab
Big Data Cluster in USA for:
• Benchmarking
• Software certification
• Integration / test
• Reference architectures

22. Learn About:
Register:
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SUSE Linux Expert Days
• SUSE and Big Data
• Towards Zero Uptime with SUSE Tecnology
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
https://www.suse.com/events/slef-2014/#Liste

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Learn More
Visit our web site
www.suse.com/solutions/platform.html#big_data
Read our whitepapers
Deploying Hadoop on SLES
Deploy and Manage Hadoop with SUSE Manager
HP Reference Architecture.
Contact us
bigdata@suse.com

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