VMware Brings Suse Linux To New Cloud Service

Users of Suse Linux can purchase a fully supported version of the OS directly from VMware by year's end

The newly launched VMware vCloud Hybrid Service will start offering a fully supported Suse Linux Enterprise Server by the end of the year, making it the first commercially supported Linux OS that the cloud service plans to offer.

"We have a lot of customers already running Suse Linux in their private data centers who are looking to move to public clouds. They will now be able to use the same tools that they use to manage their [private VMware] to manage their instances in the public VMware cloud," said Frank Rego, Suse's VMware alliance manager.

Suse announced the pending offer at VMware's VMworld annual user conference, being held this week in San Francisco.