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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 variants. Each variant 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 provide 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.

• SAP NetWeaver - Configure high availability for IBM Power Infrastructure
• SAP on IBM Db2 by using IBM Power Virtual Servers
• SAP MaxDB by using IBM Power Virtual Servers
• SAP ASE by using IBM Power Virtual Servers
• SAP to IBM Power Virtual Server Migration Acceleration Program

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 a RHEL HA Add-On cluster on IBM® Power® Virtual Server
• Implementing a RHEL HA Add-On cluster on IBM Power Virtual Server in a Multizone Region Environment
• 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

For more information about SAP hybrid cloud migration scenarios for SAP on IBM IBM® Power® Virtual Server moving to PowerVS, see the following links.

• Migrating SAP between on-premises and IBM Cloud on IBM® Power® Virtual Server Overview
• Hybrid Cloud Network Considerations for SAP on IBM® Power® Virtual Server
• Migrating SAP S/4HANA using HANA System Replication
• Migrating SAP ECC on Oracle to IBM Power Virtual Server
• Migrating SAP ERP 6 on IBM Db2 to IBM Power Virtual Server

Help

Use the following links if you need more help.

• Requesting support for SAP-certified IBM Power Virtual Servers
• SAP ONE Support process for IBM Power
• FAQ - SAP-certified IBM Power Virtual Servers
• FAQ - Profile List with Benchmarks and Specifications

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 for Me portal.