Supported SUSE Liberty Linux Features

This table lists the availability of various features on SUSE Liberty Linux clients.

SUSE Liberty Linux clients are sometimes also called SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Expanded Support (SLES ES), Liberty, RES or Red Hat Expanded Support.

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. SUSE Liberty Linux is supported by SUSE.

The icons in this table indicate:

the feature is available on both Salt and traditional clients
the feature is not available
the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date
Traditional the feature is supported only on traditional clients
Salt the feature is supported only on Salt clients.

Table 1. Supported Features on SUSE Liberty Linux Operating Systems
Feature	SUSE Liberty Linux 7	SUSE Liberty Linux 8	SUSE Liberty Linux 9
Client		Salt	Salt
System packages	SUSE	SUSE	SUSE
Registration		Salt	Salt
Install packages		Salt	Salt
Apply patches		Salt	Salt
Remote commands		Salt	Salt
System package states	Salt	Salt	Salt
System custom states	Salt	Salt	Salt
Group custom states	Salt	Salt	Salt
Organization custom states	Salt	Salt	Salt
System set manager (SSM)	Salt	Salt	Salt
Product migration	N/A	N/A	N/A
Basic Virtual Guest Management		Salt	Salt
Advanced Virtual Guest Management	Salt	Salt	Salt
Virtual Guest Installation (Kickstart), as Host OS	Traditional
Virtual Guest Installation (image template), as Host OS		Salt	Salt
System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)		Salt	Salt
System redeployment (Kickstart)
Contact methods	Traditional: OSAD, RHNSD, SSH-push. Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH	Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH	Salt: ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH
Works with SUSE Manager Proxy		Salt	Salt
Action chains		Salt	Salt
Staging (pre-download of packages)		Salt	Salt
Duplicate package reporting		Salt	Salt
CVE auditing		Salt	Salt
SCAP auditing		Salt	Salt
Package verification	Traditional
Package locking
System locking	Traditional
Maintenance Windows			Salt
System snapshot	Traditional	Salt	Salt
Configuration file management		Salt	Salt
Snapshots and profiles	Traditional. Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported	Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported	Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported
Power management		Salt	Salt
Monitoring server
Monitored clients	Salt	Salt	Salt
Docker buildhost
Build Docker image with OS
Kiwi buildhost
Build Kiwi image with OS
Recurring Actions	Salt	Salt	Salt
AppStreams	N/A
Yomi	N/A	N/A	N/A

Virtual Guest Management:

In this table, virtual guest management is split into basic and advanced.

Basic virtual guest management includes listing VMs, slow refresh, VM lifecycle actions (start, stop, resume, pause), and modifying VM vCPU and Memory.

Advanced virtual guest management includes all features of Basic virtual guest management plus fast refresh, VM lifecycle actions (delete, reset, power off), modifying VM disk, network, graphical display, and graphical display configuration.