November 27, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Symptom
You operate an SAP system with Microsoft Windows on virtualized hardware. The previously available tools and transactions for monitoring an SAP system are insufficient for this purpose.
Other terms
Virtualization, Windows, VMware ESX Server, vSphere, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008
Reason and Prerequisites
In the SAP transactions that monitor the system configuration, you could not distinguish between an [...]
July 20, 2009 at 5:38 am
Symptom
You want to use IBM Dynamic LPAR and/or Micropartining for the productive use of SAP systems
Other terms
Dynamic LPAR, DLPAR, Virtualization, Micropartioning
Reason and Prerequisites
Prerequisite: The IBM hardware and the operating system have to support Dynamic LPAR and Micropartining
Solution
IBM offers with Power5 and Power6 based computer systems running AIX, Linux on Power and i5/OS the functionality [...]
July 14, 2009 at 6:18 am
Symptom
You want to use SAP server software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
Other terms
Red Hat, Redhat, RH, Enterprise Linux, RHEL5, virtualization, XEN, x86_64, ppc64, ia64
Reason and Prerequisites
You want to use SAP server software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
Solution
Environment
This document deals with the installation and configuration of SAP server software on Red Hat Enterprise [...]
July 1, 2009 at 6:01 am
Symptom
You operate an SAP system with Microsoft Windows and virtualized hardware. The previously-available tools and transactions for monitoring an SAP system are insufficient for this purpose.
Other terms
Virtualization, Windows, VMware ESX Server, vSphere, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008
Reason and Prerequisites
In the SAP transactions that monitor the system configuration, you could not distinguish between [...]
June 25, 2009 at 4:03 am
Symptom
You want to use an SAP system productively on Windows on virtualized hardware.
Other terms
VMware, VMware ESX Server, VMware GSX Server, Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, XEN
Reason and Prerequisites
You can use virtualization to reduce costs in the computer center. To run an SAP system productively on virtualized hardware, you must adhere [...]
June 18, 2009 at 3:17 am
Symptom
This note provides an overview of the virtualization-specific data collected by SAPOSCOL.
You can view this data in the SAP system via the new transaction OS07 (for releases up to SAP Kernel 7.10: OS07N) or within the virtual machine at operating system level by using the call “SAPOSCOL.EXE -d”.
In dialog mode of SAPOSCOL, the [...]
June 14, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Symptom
“vm-support” – Script for gathering VMware debugging information.
Other terms
VMware, ESX, Windows, Linux, Support, virtualization
Reason and Prerequisites
You have problems with a VMWare instance and need to open a problem ticket at SAP (BC-OP-NT-ESX or BC-OP-LNX-ESX) or at VMWare.
Solution
If you open a problem ticket at SAP or at VMWare, the support organizations may be able to [...]