10. SAP and SUSE
13+ years of technology and engineering collaboration
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Front runner technologies
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1st validated open source HA
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1st Amazon EC2 OS for SAP
1st validated virtualization
Strategic OS for:
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SAP BWA
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SAP HANA
SAP Business ByDesign
Integrated Enterprise Support
11. SUSE at the SAP Linux Lab
Representing SUSE at SAP and in the SAP partner ecosystem for all
technical SUSE Linux related engagements, projects, issues and
questions
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Responsibilities
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Support of SUSE NTS for escalating L3 customer issues
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Certification of SAP products on SUSE Linux Enterprise
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Strategic Linux related projects between SUSE and SAP:
appliances, high availability, virtualization
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Maintenance of a strong contact network within SAP and the SAP
partner ecosystem
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Software development support for SAP
Ensure maximum compatibility of SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP
applications and databases
12. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Priority Support for SAP Applications
®
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Integrated in SAP
Support Process
24x7
Leverages SAP
Customer Support
Network
Quick support from
SAP LinuxLab Experts
● SAP Note 1056161 SUSE Priority Support
for SAP-Applications
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16. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
for SAP Applications
Page
Cache
Limit
Clam
SAP
High Availability
Extensions
ESPOS
Web
YaST
SAP Installation
Framework
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SAP specific additional update channel
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17. SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2
Enhancements
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Support for Kernel 2.6 compatibility environment
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SAP Applications require uname output of 2.6.x
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uname26 and PAM module providing compatibility environment
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SAP Notes 1629558 and 1310037
“SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2’s new Linux kernel version 3.0 offers many new features and enhancements
that will help SAP customers utilize the newest technology improvements with their SAP infrastructures,
together with SUSE, we're developing easy installation and migration paths for existing SAP installations,
such as SAP NetWeaver, to support Linux kernel 3.0 so our customers can confidently run SAP solutions
on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2."
(Helge Deller, head of SAP LinuxLab at SAP).
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19. SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2
Page Cache Limit
Tells kernel that once page cache
is filled to configured
limit, application memory is more
important and should not be paged
out
No memory paged out if memory
footprint of the workload plus the
configured page cache limit does
not exceed the amount of physical
RAM
SAP Note 1557506: Linux paging
improvement
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20. SAP and SUSE by the numbers
16,800
70%
SAP customers are using Linux to run the
database and/or application server
of these are running their workloads on
SUSE Linux Enterprise
#1
SUSE Linux Enterprise is SAP's development
platform for UNIX and Linux
#1
SUSE Linux Enterprise is the recommended
and supported OS of choice for SAP HANA
#1
First Linux distributor to certify HA extension for
integration with SAP Netweaver
21. SAP-Notes
Relevant SAP Notes*
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171356 - SAP Software on Linux: Essentials
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1310037
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11: Installationsguide
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1056161
- SUSE Priority Support for SAP Applications
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1557506
- Linux paging improvements
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1122387
- Linux: SAP Support in virtualized Environments
VMware Knowledge base
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1034165 Disabling simultaneous write protection provided by VMFS using
the multi-writer flag
* SAP S-User Id required
22. More Information
SUSE Websites
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www.suse.com/smart
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications
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SUSE and SAP Alliance
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SUSE Linux Enterprise and SAP HANA
SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications
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Overview and Features
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Video Introduction
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Solutions Guide
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Success Stories
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Whitepapers
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Best Practice Guides (High Availability)
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FAQ
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Technical Information
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Evaluation Download
23. Corporate Headquarters
+49 911 740 53 0 (Worldwide)
Join us on:
Maxfeldstrasse 5
90409 Nuremberg
Germany
www.suse.com
www.opensuse.org
Notas do Editor
SAP was the first big vendor to ship business solutions on LinuxGeneral availability for SAP R/3 since Q4 99First SAP certified Linux distribution: Red Hat 6.1 Enterprise Edition for SAP All releases since R/3 4.0B, including SAP Business Suite 2005/8 and latest BS7i2010Full availability of on SAP NetWeaver 7.x, ’04, 6.x and SAP Basis 4.x based solutionsSupported DistributionsSUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLESRed Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL Oracle Linux for selected Oracle based SAP environmentsSupported DatabasesSybase ASE , MaxDB and HANAIBM DB2 (LUW and for zSeries) and OracleLinux is Reference Platform for SAP software development, with SAP Managed Services (SAP’s internal server operations team) being a major SuSE customerBest availability of SAP solutions on Linux guaranteedWe now see Linux-first and Linux-only deployments