This document discusses SLES for SAP applications, including its current features and SUSE's plans to simplify, strengthen, and promote it. Key points include simplifying deployment automation and monitoring for SAP solutions, strengthening high availability configurations and tools, and promoting partnerships to support customers' journeys to containers and cloud. Upcoming versions will focus on areas like deployment automation, monitoring improvements, and tooling updates.

1. Christian Holsing
Manager – SUSE Solution Management for SAP applications
Christian.Holsing@suse.com
FUT1112 - SLES for SAP
applications - the road ahead

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SLES for SAP applications
SLES for SAP applications contains “SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server” plus
Ø High Availability Extension
Ø Longer support and support via SAP
channels
Ø SAP specific tooling (incl HANA HA
resource agent)
SAP workloads are generally supported on
plain SLES
• HANA HA setups require SLES for SAP
• SLES does not include dedicated SAP tools

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Our SLES for vision for 2021
Simplify Strengthen Promote

4. Simplify
• Extend Deployment and configuration Automation for S/4
HANA, SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver
• Simplified HA setup
• Enhanced intelligent open source based monitoring for
SAP Solution
Strengthen
• HA configuration validation
• Improved tooling like saptune and clustertools
Promote
• Collaborate with SI’s and CSP’s on tight integration
• Support SAP clients in their journey to container-based
workloads and SaaS Services
SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP2 major updates
• Initial version of SAP deployment automation and
monitoring
• Updated SAP tooling (saptune / clustertools / support
config)
• Workload Memory protection update
• Kernel Update to 5.3, Support for latest Intel and IBM
Power generations
• General updates in HA / OS / Tools
SLES15 GA SLES15 SP1 SLES15 SP2 SLES15 SP3 SLES15 SP4 SLES15 SP5
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SUSE’s Planned Focus Areas for SAP Workloads

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On-premises
✓ Intel based server
✓ IBM Power
✓ IBM mainframe (for SAP
NetWeaver workloads)
Cloud based deployments
✓ Major CSPs, such as Azure, AWS,
GCP, IBM SoftLayer, AliCloud
✓ Various MSPs
SLES for SAP applications supports all major platforms for SAP
HANA and SAP NetWeaver
SLES for SAP applications provides features like HA and tooling consistently for all deployment types,
support customers choice on the right platform for their needs
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Virtualized
✓ Major hyperscaler e.g. VMWare
✓ KVM
✓ Hyper-Converged deployments
(e.g. Nutanix)

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SLES for SAP applications - lifecycle
SLES for SAP Applications follows the same lifecycle as SLES and supports the same upgrade paths
— SLES for SAP applications follows in general the
same lifecycle as SLES, except
– 4.5 years support per Service pack
— Same update cycle / skip of 1 SP supported
— Conversion of SLES to SLES for SAP applications
supported
— Migration between architectures require reinstall of
OS + HANA + DB Export / Import
Pls check https://www.suse.com/lifecycle for latest
details

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• Initiated in collaboration with Microsoft
Azure
• 2 Components in automation
• Terraform provider – creating Compute
/ Infrastructure
• SALT scripts - deploy and configure SAP
solution
• Automation to deploy SAP HANA, SAP
NetWeaver – single node or clustered
• SALT scripts integrated in SUSE Manager
and SUSE console for SAP MVP
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Deployment automation and
monitoring

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SUSE Console for SAP applications – first version

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• Co-Innovation with customer and Microsoft
Azure, based on Open Source solutions
• Prometheus to collect data
• Grafana to render and aggregate collected data
• SLES for SAP ships Prometheus exporters for:
• HANA monitoring
• Cluster monitoring
• OS monitoring
• NetWeaver monitoring
• All Exporters can be consumed by other
monitoring solutions
• Fully integrated in deployment automation
• Microsoft embraces Pacemaker exporter in
Azure monitoring preview
SAP Monitoring Project

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SUSE Console for SAP applications – first version

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Simplify day-2 operation of SLES for SAP through web-based user interface, while maintaining the ability
for experts to operate via Command line
— Interface to consolidate existing and new features over time
– Monitoring and log analysis
– Configuration checker
– Support connectivity
– Patching and configuration management
— Focus is on Premise and Cloud deployments with potentially
respective integration into existing frameworks
— Project is Open Source – called “Trento”
SUSE Console for SAP applications - plans and direction

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Introducing Project Trento !
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https://www.trento-project.io/
https://github.com/trento-project/trento

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Will be released early spring
tuned will be removed → systemd service
saptune v1 will be removed!
Staging → changes can be applied explicitly
Conditional configuration (via tags)
Cloud support (Azure, AWS)
sysctl.conf check
check script to verify setup
sles4sap15sp2:~ # saptune help
...
Staging control:
saptune staging [ status | enable | disable | is-enabled | list | diff ]
saptune staging [ analysis | diff | release ] [ NoteID | solutions | all ]
...
[rpm:os=15-SP1:arch=ppc64le]
...
[sysctl:vendor=FUJITSU:model=RX4770 M.*]
...
[sysctl:csp=azure]
...
[block:blkvendor=PURE
...
[block:blkmodel=”SSDPEMKF010T8 NVMe INTEL .*”]
...
[block:blkpat=sd[e-f]]
...
New saptune 3 will be part of
SLES for SAP applications SP3
SAPNote, Version | Parameter | Expected | Override | Actual | Compliant
------------------+------------------+------------+----------+------------+-----------
1980196, 7 | vm.max_map_count | 2147483647 | | 2147483647 | yes [1]
[1] parameter is also configured by /etc/sysctl.conf (vm.max_map_count = 2147483647)
…
Some parameters are also configured via /etc/sysctl.conf. Please verify!
The system fully conforms to the specified note.

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New features coming for SAP High availability
Ø Support for Multi-target SAP HANA Scale-Out clusters
Ø Simplified mount structure for SAP NetWeaver
deployments
Ø Take-Over blocker for SAP HANA
Ø TCO scenarios for CSP deployments
• Multi-SID support for SAP NetWeaver Cluster
• Shared SAP NetWeaver / SAP HANA deployments
on same hosts
SUSE continues to lead in the High Availability
space, adding simplification and new scenarios
SUSE High Availability for SAP Applications

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SUSE is looking to invest into product simplification, especially in High
Availability
— Automated deployment and configuration
• Provide tools and scripts to configure HA stack
— Configuration checks
• Basic check to ensure setup is supported and consistent
• validation before and during production
• At a later stage optimization and tuning recommendation
SAP HA deployments are seen as complicated by clients and partners and represent a
significant part of SAP related support tickets on SAP and SUSE.
Focus areas - SAP High Availability simplification

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Container based workloads
• SAP Data Intelligence is validated for SUSE Rancher
RKE
• RKE 1 is validated for SAP Data Intelligence
• RKE2 is underway
• SAP Data intelligence embraces SUSE container
• SUSE contributes to SAP Gardener project
SAP BusinessOne for HANA
• SUSE has updated the “SAP BusinessOne for HANA”
image to SLES 15 SP2
• Available for HW partner to download
• Latest validated OS as foundation for SAP B1
And a few more SAP related topics
Besides SLES for SAP, SUSE and SAP collaborate in other areas

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