Preparing Power Virtual Server workspaces for SAP workloads

For SAP workloads that run on IBM® Power® Virtual Server, one workspace for Power Virtual Server is deployed.

The following diagram shows deployed components.

Power Virtual Server infrastructure for SAP
Power Virtual Server infrastructure for SAP

Deploying a Power Virtual Server workspace

A Power Virtual Server workspace is a regional environment that provides compute, network, and storage resources. Resources that are created in a workspace are isolated to that workspace and cannot be moved or shared between workspaces. Each workspace is associated with a single data center. All SAP HANA and SAP application server instances are deployed within the designated Power Virtual Server workspace.

Create the Power Virtual Server workspace in the same region as your IBM Cloud edge VPC. To create a workspace, follow the steps that are described in Creating a Power Virtual Server workspace.

Creating an SSH key

  1. Open the Power Virtual Server console and select your workspace.
  2. In the Compute section, click SSH keys.
  3. Click Create SSH key.
  4. Enter a unique name, select the access level, add a description, and provide the SSH key details.
  5. Click Add SSH key.

SSH keys can exist at either the account level or the workspace level. Traditionally, keys were stored at the account (tenant) level, which made them visible across all workspaces in the account. Workspace-scoped keys provide isolation between environments and are restricted to a single workspace.

Creating network subnets

  1. Create private networks for management and backup. For more information, see Configuring and adding a private network subnet.

  2. Create a dedicated private network subnet for each SAP system that you install in the workspace.

  3. Connect the Power Virtual Server workspace to the IBM Cloud® Transit Gateway as described in Adding a connection.

You can now ping the IBM Power Virtual Server private network IP addresses from the access host that is deployed in VPC.

Terraform automation - Deploying the VPC landing zone for Power Virtual Server

All the preceding steps are automated by using Terraform and Ansible and are available as a Deployable Architecture solution in the IBM Cloud catalog. To configure and deploy, see Power Virtual Server with VPC landing zone - 'Standard Landscape Variation' for more details.