--- title: SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Reviews meta_title: 'SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 49 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SUSE Multi-Linux Manager works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 49 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Reviews **Vendor:** SUSE **Category:** [Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 49 ## About SUSE Multi-Linux Manager True open source infrastructure management solution designed to simplify and secure your entire mixed Linux environment — at the core, on the edge or in the cloud(s). Maintain infrastructure security & compliance at any scale — from 10 to 1 million clients — from a single console. Manual or inconsistent patch management is a leading cause of cyber-attacks. SUSE Manager helps to secure your entire mixed Linux environments – from automated patch management to centralized monitoring and management. Automate infrastructure security & compliance Secure your infrastructure with automated patch and configuration management including auto-remediation. Validate your system security against SCAP protocols and perform audit scans on client systems through openSCAP. Ensure system compliance with internal and external requirements. Centralized control and reporting at any scale Scale out your infrastructure and centralize reporting for up to 1 million Linux clients using SUSE Manager’s Hub architecture. Use Prometheus to monitor real-time data and Grafana for visual dashboards. Simplify and automate deployment with the new rearchitected proxy for resource constrained environments. Manage any Linux, anywhere One console to manage and monitor all of your Linux distros wherever thy are located. One-click automation for provisioning, patching, and configuration, which leads to faster, consistent and repeatable server employments. Easy, in-place migration for SUSE Solutions, including openSUSE to SLE, service pack migrations and major version upgrades. ## SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager for central management of diverse Linux distributions. (15 reviews) - Users value the **automation capabilities** of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, greatly enhancing efficiency in managing Linux infrastructures. (11 reviews) - Users find the **efficiency of patch management** in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager invaluable for managing multiple Linux systems. (10 reviews) - Users value the **centralized monitoring** features of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, enhancing efficiency across diverse Linux systems. (8 reviews) - Users highly value the **reliability** of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager for seamless, centralized management across diverse Linux environments. (7 reviews) - Security (7 reviews) - Users value the **significant time savings** from centralized management and automation in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager. (7 reviews) - Automation Efficiency (6 reviews) - Users value the **efficiency** of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager for simplifying management and enhancing performance across diverse Linux systems. (6 reviews) - Patching (6 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users are frustrated by the **missing add-on support** , limiting customization and integration capabilities in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager. (8 reviews) - Users face a **challenging learning curve** with SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, requiring significant time and expertise for effective usage. (7 reviews) - Users find the **complex setup** of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager time-consuming, especially without centralized Linux management experience. (5 reviews) - Users find the **learning difficulty** of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager challenging, particularly for those new to centralized Linux management. (5 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager daunting, especially during initial setup and major upgrades. (4 reviews) - Installation Issues (4 reviews) - Users face **integration issues** due to lacking support for public cloud-native integrations, impacting usability and functionality. (3 reviews) - Users find the **interface difficult to navigate** , particularly the complex commands and non-intuitive WebUI. (3 reviews) - Steep Learning Curve (3 reviews) - Time-Consuming (3 reviews) ## SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Reviews ### 1. Mangment & Orchestration tool for Linux platforms **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Ammar S. | Zones Cloud Specialist-Data Center Transformation , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** It's good for managing the Linux operating systems, its salt management tools support multiple flavors like RedHat, Cent OS and even Ubuntu (Debian based). Most of the orchestration tools are limited to their specific distribution only (mostly their own). Still, the Suse's Manager can deal with a variety of distributions like suse , ubuntu etc. **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Doesnt supports cloud public cloud-native integrations. You have to use it as BYOL in market place. Such as in Azure you have to use the suse image from the marketplace and then have to install it in the same VPC. Also, it would be good if it has some competitor features like well-architected reviews and security assessments. **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orchestration and management of multiple distributions in a physical datcenter. Eliminating the need to access different OS and install the patches and software updates separately. ### 2. Great Open Source Infrastructure Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AREFUL I. | Sr. IT Executive (System and Network), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2023 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** SUSE Manager is best for its following features: 1. Adjusting with all Linux Distro 2.No Platform dependency to use it. 3. Automated any patch management **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Bare metal system to be provisioned must have PXE booting enabled in the boot. **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use SUSE Manager to manage Azure Cloud Infrastructure. I can easily setup using command line to provision instance and deploying service. ### 3. Linux Geeker **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Budi K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2023 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** SUSE Managers have a good choice for managing the package. I like it for managing a specific project like a web service. **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** I don't like SUSE Manager when installing and updating software. It's so slow in our country. **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get standard security compliance. It's good for our infrastructure security ### 4. The experience was Great with suse manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mozam a. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2023 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** With suse we can manage very great tool to manage things. Management **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** In command line it is very frustrating. It got to complex commands **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am amanging almost my complete MrP ### 5. Administrator **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawan K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Using suse manager Administrator is best option **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Manual doing work in suse is not like in suse **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud ### 6. Suse Manager sevices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ritesh kumar C. | Performance Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2022 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** We can implement and add many things to suse Manager and helps in better usability and we can add monitoring tool like APM for performance monitoring. **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Paid and not free and very less trial time and token creation time is long **Recommendations to others considering SUSE Multi-Linux Manager:** It is not to popular as kubernetes,grafana, dynatrace **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** That helps in installation and configuration from Linux env and easy to use ### 7. Good OS that consistently communicates calls to home from SAN appliances to emc.com **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Being able to update ESRS version in the GUI easily. Check SP's along with the network configurations. Had to build one of these completely by scratch because the previous one that I had used crashed couldnt call home to Dell EMC. I like being able to see the current version running, most up to date version avaialble. Get to check all 3 san's from one console, that shows me the SP IP addresses, console IP addresses, regardless of the located at. **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Setting and building the server. The initial setup is very tricky and can be a confusing set up. Dell EMC typically doesn't provide a lot of support when the server stops communicating to Dell EMC When logs and calls to home are not working, it can take a while to assess why alerts are not going to EMC. Often manual tickets still need to be created when issues arise. **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The major benefit is that when Dell EMC SAN appliances experience hardware or software issues arise, manual tickets do not need to be generated because the information that is needed for analysis is sent to dell EMC. Alerts can be sent to on-call staff 24/7/365. ### 8. Insights of suse for enterprise usage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashok Reddy A. | Cloud, Virtualization, SAN/Storage Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2021 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Improvement made over the past few years, solidity towards being a compitetor for major Linux distros like Red hat **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Their slow phase of implementing some standalone features in the OS **Recommendations to others considering SUSE Multi-Linux Manager:** It's a definitely a go solution, which is designed for it's robustness **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly confined to test and development, to cutdown the cost and reduce dependency of paid OS ### 9. Enterprise-class open source point of sale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isan L. | Software Engineer and Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2021 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** SLEPOS subscriptions and manage online applications to integrate and manage. Subscription type. **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Configure and manage server applications and third party applications. **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use little resources with Linux image templates, run point of sale applications. Combine with different server. ### 10. Will refere to use SUSE Linux Enterprise 15+ **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** Its very quick and fast and all packages are available **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** - zypper should have more options like provided by yum, its difficult to search any packages as per requirement and need to do lot of sorting and grepingits - If its EOL - SUSE removes the live repo link and its difficult to get packages **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I build my application on across various platform - But its good that lot of packages are supported ### 11. Absolutely stable and useful Operating System **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2021 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** The kernel is very lightweight, and it is very useful while configuring additional storages. **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** The GUI is shaggy sometimes. Especially after installing the KVM. **Recommendations to others considering SUSE Multi-Linux Manager:** It would be great if it has nginx comes by default. **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** SUSE addressed my virtualization needs. It was so easy to install KVM. ### 12. easy install **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2020 **What do you like best about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** The installation of the cluster should be easier. **What do you dislike about SUSE Multi-Linux Manager?** The review of error logs is not user-friendly. **What problems is SUSE Multi-Linux Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ## SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Discussions - [What is SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-suse-linux-enterprise-point-of-service-used-for) - [What is spacewalk in Suse Linux?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-spacewalk-in-suse-linux) - [Which of these hardware platforms can it manage with SUSE manager for retail?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-these-hardware-platforms-can-it-manage-with-suse-manager-for-retail) - [What does SUSE manager do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-suse-manager-do) - [View SUSE Multi-Linux Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/suse-multi-linux-manager/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-09+22%3A18%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ad371e9d-998b-4944-a575-2caadd7fd3d6&secure%5Btoken%5D=8b169ab5d6ef9dc9bb951fa888ea10410686ac679467c4c638eb351891e405d6&format=llm_user) ## SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Features **Additional Functionality** - Alerts/Notifications - Patch Prioritization - Status Tracking - Audit Management - Network Wide Management - Remote Access/Control - Remote Monitoring & Management - Vulnerability Scanning - Activity Tracking - Policy Management - Remote Update/Installation - IT Asset Tracking - Approval Process Control - Automatic Patch Deployment - Access Controls/Permissions - Customization - Dashboard - Patch Testing - Support Ticket Management - Automatic Scans - Active Directory Integration - Compliance Management - Application Management - API - Risk Assessment - Scheduling - Reporting & Statistics - Maintenance Scheduling - Generative AI - Real-Time Updates - Usage Tracking/Analytics - AI Copilot - Patch Management - Third-Party Integrations - Server Monitoring - Real-Time Reporting - Event Logs - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management **Additional Functionality** - Search/Filter - Risk Management - Generative AI - Alerts/Notifications - Compliance Management - Third-Party Integrations - Certificate Assessment - API - Incident Management - Automated Containment - Real-Time Data - Vulnerability Scanning - Monitoring - Policy Management - Asset Discovery - Penetration Testing - Runtime Container Security - Activity Dashboard - Security Auditing - Issue Tracking - Threat Intelligence - Patch Management - Endpoint Management - Collaboration Tools - Vulnerability Management - Goal Setting/Tracking - Vulnerability Assessment - Asset Tagging - Assessment Management - Access Controls/Permissions - AI Copilot - Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization - Vulnerability Protection - Risk Assessment - Reporting/Analytics - SQL Injections **Administration ** - Administration Console - Task Management - Dashboards and Visualizations - Access Control **Agentic AI - SAP Store** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Analysis** - Threat Detection **Automation** - Test Automation - Intelligent Automation - Release Automation - Automated Provisioning **Platform** - Unified Communications Platform - Remote Access - ITIL Policy Compliance - Asset Tracking - IT Knowledge Management - IT Asset Management - Activity Tracking **IT Management** - Workflow Management - Infrastructure Management - IT Discovery **Security** - Endpoint Protection - Patch Management - Disaster Recovery - Service Management - Workflow Management - Remote Monitoring & Management - Configuration Management - Task Management - License Management - Capacity Management - Compliance Management - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management - Incident Management **Agentic AI - Enterprise IT Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making - AI/Machine Learning - Third-Party Integrations **Additional Functionality** - Audit Trail - Single Sign On - Security Tools - Server Monitoring - Generative AI - Self Service Portal - Event Logs - Maintenance Scheduling - Data Import/Export - Personalization and Recommendation - AI Copilot - IT Reporting - Alerts/Notifications - Access Controls/Permissions - Issue Auditing - Dashboard - API - Real-Time Notifications - Real-Time Monitoring - Workflow Automation ## Top SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Alternatives - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [ManageEngine Endpoint Central](https://www.g2.com/products/manageengine-endpoint-central/reviews) - 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