Important SAP Notes about Virtualization

Quick update because I don’t have so much time available lately, days pass and it is getting difficult to have some time to write a new post. SAP decided to send some information to my email when downloading or consulting specific information from Support Portal. I leave you some information related virtualization of SAP systems and applications.

SAP released tons of notes related to virtualization that we should read when implementing a system on a virtual hosts since they have really interesting stuff. I wonder how many of you read about it in the past 😉

Information	Where to find
Database virtualization	1142243: MaxDB release for virtual systems 1173954: Support of Oracle for VMware *(also read VMware statement regarding Oracle support)* 1130801: DB2 LUW, DB2 z/OS release for VMware, XEN, and Hyper-V 1706801: SAP ASE release for virtual systems
Desktop virtualization	66971: Supported SAP GUI platforms 154156: Parallel operation of SAP GUIs of different releases
Key Notes for Virtual Environments	1492000: General Support Statement for Virtual Environments Must Read 1380654: SAP support in cloud environments 1501701: Single Computing Unit Performance and Sizing 2161991: VMware vSphere configuration guidelines
Linux in Virtual Environments	1122387: Linux: SAP Support in virtualized environments 1102124: SAPOSCOL on Linux: Enhanced function 171356: SAP software on Linux: General information 540787: CPU affinity and CPU priority under Linux 989963: Linux: VMware timing problem 1552925: Linux: High Availability Cluster Solutions 1681501: Configure a SAP JVM to use large pages on Linux 724140: Extended memory, release for operating system
SAP Business Objects	1405449: PCM : VMware hosting the PCM suite For all other Business Objects products, see SAP 1492000.
SAP HANA on VMware vSphere	1788665: SAP HANA Support for VMware vSphere Environment Steadily changing 1995460: SAP HANA on VMware vSphere in production 2024433: Multiple SAP HANA VMs on VMware vSphere in production 2020657: SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA on VMware vSphere in production 1905389: Additional Material for HA200 and HA200R 2157587: SAP Business Warehouse, powered by SAP HANA on VMware vSphere in scale-out and production 2315348: Single SAP HANA VM on VMware vSphere 6.0 in production 2393917: Single SAP HANA VM on VMware vSphere 6.5 in production
SAP Landscape Management (SAP LaMa)	1783702: SAP Landscape Virtualization Management 2.0 – Enterprise Edition 1798556: SAP Landscape Virtualization Management 2.0 – Standard edition 1259069: Configuration of VMware vCenter for LVM 1808432: Online Virtual Machine cloning with LVM 1709155: System Provisioning with SAP Landscape Virtualization Management 1102124 : SAPOSCOL on Linux: Enhanced function 1550099 : Additional Host Agent Operations for ACC/SAP LVM 1572841 : Setup of name server update of SAP LVM
SAP Monitoring	1482272: Key Monitoring Metrics for SAP on VMware vSphere (up to version 5.5 u2) 2266266: Key Monitoring Metrics for SAP on VMware vSphere (version 5.5 u3 and higher)
Support Related SAP Notes	2381942 – Virtual Machines hanging with VMware ESXi 5.5 p08 and p09 *New* 2293740 – Performance degradation due to high network latency with vSphere 6 2237937 – Virtual Machines hanging with VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3 and 6.0 Must Check 2229228 – VMware vSphere 6.0: possible data corruption *Must Check* 1158363 – VMware Performance Snapshot 1478133 – MS SQL Server: How to analyze connection problems to database server 1593183 – TCP/IP networking parameters for SQL Server 500235 – Network Diagnosis with NIPING 2015392 – VMware recommendations for latency-sensitive SAP applications
Windows in Virtual Environments	1409608: Virtualization on Windows 1409604: Virtualization on Windows: Enhanced Monitoring 1612283: Hardware Configuration Standards and Guidance 1374671: High Availability in Virtual Environment on Windows 2043588: SAP installation fails on Windows 2012 (running on VMware) 1678705: Installation scenarios for a standalone ASCS instance 1580509: Windows editions supported by SAP 2327159: SAP NetWeaver License Behavior in Virtual and Cloud Environments