Fast Path of IBM Power Virtual Servers
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An Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environment consists primarily of compute, storage, and network components from a specified region (such as the US) and a designated zone and or data center. For more information, see IBM Power Systems Infrastructure environment introduction.
Certified IaaS for SAP HANA database server is available in many variations. Each variation has different capabilities and sizes to fit different SAP workload scenarios. For more information, see Infrastructure that is certified for SAP - IBM Power Virtual Server.
The following links give an overview of the SAP-certified profiles with IBM Power Virtual Servers for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver.
- IBM Power Virtual Server certified profiles for SAP HANA
- IBM Power Virtual Server certified profiles for SAP NetWeaver
- Compute Profiles of SAP-certified IBM Power Virtual Servers
Your specific requirements determine the SAP solutions that are powered by the SAP HANA Database Server or SAP NetWeaver Application Server and determine how your applications run in the available infrastructure. For more information, see the following links.
- Mapping CPUs derived from SAPS to an IBM Power Virtual Server
- Monitoring for IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers
- Connectivity options within the IBM Power Virtual Server network, connection through IBM Cloud
- SAP license key with IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers
- Network Block Storage for IBM Power Virtual Servers
- Sample storage configurations on IBM Power Infrastructure
Your enterprise IT organization can select from various operating systems from IBM Cloud® for SAP portfolio. For more information about available operating systems, see the following links.
- OS for IBM Power Virtual Servers
- OS - Bring your own image and or license for IBM Power Virtual Servers
Depending on your scenarios, the following links provide helpful information.
How to
For more information about provisioning IBM Power Virtual Server for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver manually, see the following links.
- Planning your deployment
- Deploying IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure that is used by SAP workloads that run on IBM Power Virtual Servers
- Deploying IBM Cloud Power Virtual Services infrastructure that is used by SAP workloads
- Deploying IBM PowerVS instances for SAP system
For more information about implementing high availability scenarios for SAP on IBM IBM® Power® Virtual Server, see the following links.
- Implementing High Availability for SAP Applications on IBM® Power® Virtual Server
- Creating instances for a high availability cluster on IBM® Power® Virtual Server
- Implementing RHEL HA Add-On cluster on IBM® Power® Virtual Server
- Configuring SAP HANA Scale-Up System Replication in a RHEL HA Add-On cluster
- Configuring SAP HANA Cost-Optimized Scale-Up System Replication in a RHEL HA Add-On cluster
- Configuring SAP HANA Active-Active (Read-Enabled) System Replication in a RHEL HA Add-On cluster
- Configuring SAP HANA Multitier System Replication in a RHEL HA Add-On cluster
- Configuring SAP HANA Multitarget System Replication in a RHEL HA Add-On cluster
- Configuring high availability for SAP S/4HANA (ASCS and ERS) in a RHEL HA Add-On cluster
- Configuring an active-passive NFS server in a Red Hat High Availability cluster
Help
Use the following links if you need more help.
More resources for SAP HANA
The following links can help you install and configure your Power Virtual Server instances with SAP HANA on Linux®. Links with numerals in the title lead to the SAP Support Portal.
Operating systems – General Linux®
For more information about SAP on Linux, see the following table.
Operating systems – SUSE Linux
For more information about SAP on SUSE Linux, see the following table.
| Link | Description |
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| 2205917 - SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 12 / SLES for SAP Applications 12 | SLES 12 recommended operating system settings |
| 1984787 - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12: Installation notes | SLES 12 installation note |
| 2578899 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15: Installation Note | SLES 15 installation note |
| 2684254 - SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 15 / SLES for SAP Applications 15 | SLES 15 recommended operating system settings |
| 2790462 - HANA Server connection is not available or timed out after you upgrade to SUSE 15 from SUSE 12 | Known issue when you upgrade from 12 to 15 |
| 1275776 - Linux: Preparing SLES for SAP environments | Preparing SLES for SAP environments |
| SUSE Best Practices Library | A useful collection of SUSE documentation |
| SUSE Enterprise Server for IBM POWER | IBM and SUSE |
Operating systems – Red Hat Linux® (RHEL)
For more information about SAP on RHEL, see the following table.
| Link | Description |
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| SAP Note 2772999 RHEL 8.x: Installation and Configuration |
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| SAP Note 2777782 SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS Settings for RHEL 8 |
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| SAP Note 2382421 Optimizing the Network Configuration on HANA and OS-Level | SLES 15 installation note |
| 2684254 - SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 15 / SLES for SAP Applications 15 |
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| RHEL System Roles for SAP |
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SAP HANA-related information
For more information about SAP HANA, see the following table.
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| 2000003 - FAQ: SAP HANA | Extensive overview of SAP HANA |
| 1999880 - FAQ: SAP HANA System Replication | HSR central note |
| 2000002 - FAQ: SAP HANA SQL Optimization | Useful tips to improve SQL processing times |
| SAP HANA Platform Landing page | Useful for installation guides and upgrade guides |
| SAP Guide Finder | Useful to locate user guides and information on updates |
| 2380291 - SAP HANA 2.0 Cockpit Central Release Note | SAP HANA Cockpit central note |