The ease of managing the server, the ease of installation, the administration panel, and the fact that it has both cloud and on-prem make it almost a complete industry-grade OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much complaints, still would like the GUI to be made better and better support for IBM packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High load server in the cloud, run applications directly from standard applications on PC, data request and license for other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrating third-party software and data requests in and out of the network becomes difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quick and easy-to-use support channels and well organized knowledge base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The package manager is not such intuitive as in other linux products. I`ve used to use yum and zipper or yast are not such organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its very easy to install & GUI interface also very good to support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some package bug is ther that need to be addressed ASAP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SLES is very easy to operate from an Administrator perspective. I have rarely seen any issues related to the kernel. SAP applications performance have been always at par. It support all kind of clouds, physical servers, vmware, etc. Official security release from SUSE have been always on time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Knowledge base articles available in public forum can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When running our SAP workloads, we found suse a reliable partner who offers a good enterprise distrubution at reasonable rates. Suse excells when it comes to useability, support and documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From time to time, certain niche topics aren't documented and it might take a longer while untill certain packages are included into the suse repositorys Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is an enterprise-grade Operating system validated for running various enterprise applications.

It is widely available On-premise, on various clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM etc.), edge computing.

It is preferred Operating system for various enterprise applications like mainframe modernization, SAP.

It is open source, easy to modify, customize for various needs and security requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can have a longer support cycle and a more secured kernel.

It can have be more cost effective for test and PoC use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is the distribution I know best and I like the whole services/products around SLES. Like if I need special software that is not part of the normal repositories and it is even not found in the packagehub I can build it easily by my own using the open build service and submit it to SLES. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it takes too long to get newest software versions, but this was more a problem with SLES 12 and later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is just that, a Linux server built for the enterprise. There's a good balance of features from latest code but with the experienced security from past releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is perhaps not marketed as well as it should be so it suffers a bit from lack of recognition which in turn affects adoption and third-party support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SLES provides a stable, cost-effective platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The short window provided to migrate to new service packs once released. Community support is lacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.