This section brings together everything you need to connect SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and openSUSE hosts to Everpure FlashArray, covering quick start guides and best practices for iSCSI, NVMe-TCP, NFS, and Fibre Channel.
Why SUSE and openSUSE
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a long-established enterprise Linux platform built for mission-critical workloads, with a strong reputation for stability, robust lifecycle support, and tools like YaST and Wicked that streamline system and network administration. openSUSE, its community counterpart, shares the same package ecosystem and administrative model, making it a natural fit for organizations already standardized on the SUSE toolchain across development and production environments.
Why FlashArray
FlashArray gives SUSE and openSUSE hosts a consistent, high-performance storage foundation regardless of which transport you choose. It supports both traditional SAN protocols, file protocols and modern NVMe-based transports, so hosts can connect over Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS or NVMe-oF while using the same simple model for creating volumes or file systems, connecting hosts, and managing access. This flexibility lets you align storage connectivity with your network design and performance goals, and provides a clear modernization path from SCSI-based transports to NVMe as your environment evolves.
Key benefits of running SUSE/openSUSE on FlashArray include:
Low-latency, high-performance block storage for business-critical workloads such as databases and virtualized infrastructure.
Multiple connectivity options on one platform — iSCSI, NVMe-TCP, NVMe-FC, NFS and Fibre Channel can all run on the same array, so SUSE/openSUSE hosts can adopt the transport that best fits available networking hardware.
NVMe-TCP performance gains over iSCSI — up to 35% higher IOPS, 25% lower latency, and 20% better throughput, using only standard Ethernet NICs and switches, with no specialized hardware required.
Native multipath and Wicked-based network configuration for NVMe-TCP, with persistent connections and queue-depth I/O policy tuning that survive reboots.
Resilient file access for NFS workloads — recommended mount options such as NFSv4.1 and nconnect maintain application-transparent I/O continuity through FlashArray controller failover, with I/O pausing rather than erroring during the VIP migration.
Integration with core FlashArray data services, including snapshots, replication, and host-based workflows, across every supported protocol.