Supported Client Systems

Supported operating systems for traditional and Salt clients are listed in this table.

In this table, indicates that clients running the operating system are supported by SUSE, and indicates that it is not supported. Fields marked as are under consideration, and may or may not be supported at a later date.

For SUSE operating systems, the version and SP level must be under general support (normal or LTSS) to be supported with SUSE Manager. For details on supported product versions, see:

https://www.suse.com/lifecycle

For non-SUSE operating systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Oracle Linux, only the latest available version is under general support.

Table 1. Supported Client Systems
Operating System	Architecture	Traditional Clients	Salt Clients
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15	x86-64, ppc64le, IBM Z, ARM
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12	x86-64, ppc64le, IBM Z, ARM
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15	x86-64, ppc64le
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12	x86-64, ppc64le
SLE Micro	x86-64, ppc64le, aarch64
openSUSE Leap 15	x86-64, aarch64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 8	x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 7	x86-64
AlmaLinux 8	x86-64, aarch64
Amazon Linux 2	x86-64, aarch64
CentOS 8	x86-64, aarch64
CentOS 7	x86-64, aarch64
Debian 11	x86-64
Debian 10	x86-64
Oracle Linux 9	x86-64, aarch64
Oracle Linux 8	x86-64, aarch64
Oracle Linux 7	x86-64, aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	x86-64
Rocky Linux 8	x86-64, aarch64
Ubuntu 22.04	amd64
Ubuntu 20.04	amd64
Ubuntu 18.04	amd64

When the distibution reaches end-of-life, it enters grace period of 3 months when the support is considered deprecated. After that period, the product is considered unsupported. Any support may only be available on the best-effort basis.

For more information about end-of-life dates, see https://endoflife.software/operating-systems.

Salt SSH is using /var/tmp to deploy Salt Bundle to and execute Salt commands on the client with the bundled Python. Therefore you must not mount /var/tmp with the noexec option. It is not possible to bootstrap the clients, which have /var/tmp mounted with noexec option, with the Web UI because the bootstrap process is using Salt SSH to reach a client.

When you are setting up your client hardware, you need to ensure you have enough for the operating system and for the workload you want to perform on the client, with these additions for SUSE Manager:

Table 2. Client Additional Hardware Requirements
Hardware	Additional Size Required
RAM	512 MB
Disk Space:	200 MB