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Sap Suse Implementation Guide Omnistack
Sap Suse Implementation Guide Omnistack
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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Audience.............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Software Components............................................................................................................................................................... 3
VM Sizing............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Installation..........................................................................................................................................................................11
SWAP space....................................................................................................................................................................... 15
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Example sizing:
http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/sap-sybase-adaptive-server-enterprise-on-
vmware-vsphere.pdf
A crucial point is to use multiple paravirtual SCSI adapters to connect the virtual disks. This improves system performance,
especially for the disks for database files and transaction logs.
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8. Configure and Memory according to your requirements and configure your first Hard disk. This disk is recommended
to be used for OS and binaries on SCSI port 0:0 – see example list in section “Define VM disk layout”.
10. Add another hard disk and set the new SCSI controller (1:0) for it.
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11. Continue with adding SCSI controllers and hard disk. Use the list from section “Create VM disk layout”.
1.
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Installation
1. Download installation media and upload it to 6. Confirm the license agreement
your datastore.
3. Power On the VM
4. Open the console window for your VM, you should see
the selection screen.
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9. Enter registration information or skip this step to register the installation later.
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11. Choose the correct hard disk for OS installation – see section “Create VM disk layout”
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15. You can now log on via SSH and continue with the
mandatory post-installation tasks to configure the
host.
SWAP space
During the installation process, we skipped the configura-
tion of a swap partition.
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saphost:~ # swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swap/swap-0001 file 20971516 0 -1
Now we have to create new partitions on our other hard disks, format them with file systems and mount the partitions to
our system – see again the table in section “Define VM file system layout”.
fdisk /dev/sda
create 2 new partitions 70 + 30 GB
fdisk /dev/sdb
create 1 new partition
fdisk /dev/sdd
create 1 new partition
mkfs.xfs /dev/sda1
mkfs.xfs /dev/sda2
mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1
mkfs.xfs /dev/sdd1
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vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /sybase/SVT/sapdata xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /sybase/SVT/saptemp xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /sybase/SVT/saplog xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /sybase/saparch xfs defaults 0 0
saphost:~ # df -hP
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1 117G 24G 92G 21% /
devtmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 27G 0 27G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.9G 9.7M 7.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 70G 33M 70G 1% /sybase/SVT/sapdata
/dev/sda2 30G 33M 30G 1% /sybase/SVT/saptemp
/dev/sdb1 10G 33M 10G 1% /sybase/SVT/saplog
/dev/sdd1 150G 33M 150G 1% /sybase/saparch
saphost:~ #
- SAP Kernel
- RDBMS
- RDBMS Client
Download everything and provide it on the server. Using CIFS mounts for accessing installation media is NOT recom-
mended.
After uploading to the server, you have to unpack all ZIP and SAR archives.
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You can start SWPM from the graphical mode of your Linux distro – or you start a VNC-server and connect, or use any
other method which gives you X-Window output.
6. Linux UID of syb<sid> user for Sybase (different for other DBs)
The UIDs and GIDs can also be auto-chosen by the installer, if you don’t have any preference. If users are already created,
the password and the UIDs are not changed. Only the group assignment is updated if necessary.
The following screenshots show a sample installation on our previously created VM ‘saphost’. We install NetWeaver 7.5
with instance number 00 (PAS) and 01 (ASCS) with Sybase ASE 16 as a central installation (SAP instances and DB on same
host) using the SWPM tool.
Notice the assignment of the mounted filesystems we defined in the section “Define VM disk layout”.
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20. Enter parameters for PAS and ABAP central services instance
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33. After Validation, review the status of the provisioning until completion.
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