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by Olaf Rutz, Walter Orb, James Nugen, Irene Hopf, Elmar Billen, Christian Bartels
SAP Applications on IBM PowerVM
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Summary of changes
October 2011, Second Edition
Chapter 1. From a non-virtualized to a virtualized infrastructure
1.1 Motivation
1.1.1 Evolution trends in the SAP landscape
1.1.2 Motivation for server virtualization
1.1.3 Beyond the server
1.2 Examples of virtualization advantages
1.2.1 Landscape consolidation
1.2.2 Load shifting
1.2.3 Processing chain
1.2.4 Concurrent load prioritization
Chapter 2. PowerVM virtualization technologies
2.1 Hypervisor
2.2 Hardware Management Console
2.3 Integrated Virtualization Manager
2.4 Systems Director Management Console
2.5 Systems Director VMControl
2.6 Dedicated LPARs
2.7 Live Partition Mobility
2.8 Dynamic LPAR
2.9 Micropartitioning and Shared Processor LPARs
2.10 Shared Dedicated Capacity
2.11 Multiple Shared-Processor Pools
2.12 Virtual I/O Server
2.13 Partition Suspend and Resume
2.14 N Port ID Virtualization
2.15 Virtual Tape
2.16 Virtual SCSI
2.17 Virtual Ethernet
2.18 Shared Ethernet Adapter
2.19 Integrated Virtual Ethernet
2.20 Active Memory Sharing
2.21 Active Memory Expansion
2.22 Workload Partitions
2.23 Workload Partition Manager
2.24 Live Application Mobility
2.25 Simultaneous Multithreading
2.26 IBM i subsystems
Chapter 3. Best practice implementation example at a customer site
Chapter 4. Hands-on management tasks
4.1 Ease of moving from dedicated to shared
4.2 Micropartition design option
4.3 Assigning implicit capping to LPARs
4.4 Scheduling dynamic LPAR operations
4.5 Managing multiple shared processor pools
4.6 Enable Pool Utilization Authority
4.7 Activate and modify memory compression
4.8 Simultaneous Multithreading and compatibility modes
Chapter 5. Virtual I/O Server
5.1 Motivation
5.2 Virtual I/O Server: basic usage types
5.2.1 Using virtual SCSI
5.2.2 High availability for vSCSI
5.2.3 Using the virtual network
5.2.4 High availability for virtual networks
5.3 Setting up a VIOS partition
5.3.1 Defining the VIOS LPAR
5.3.2 Installing the VIOS
5.3.3 Creating virtual SCSI Server Adapters
5.3.4 Gathering information about existing virtual adapters
5.3.5 Connecting a client LPAR to a virtual SCSI server adapter
5.3.6 Creating virtual Ethernet adapters
5.3.7 Connecting a client LPAR to the virtual network
5.3.8 TCP/IP address for the VIOS
5.3.9 N_Port ID Virtualization
5.3.10 VIOS backup
5.4 VIO Server monitoring
Chapter 6. IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Prerequisites
6.3 Performance
6.4 SAP notes
6.5 SAP license keys
6.6 Flexible License mechanism
6.7 Demo of Live Partition Mobility with running SAP systems
6.8 POWER6 to POWER7 migrations
Chapter 7. Workload partitions
7.1 Characteristics of WPARs
7.2 Types of WPARs
7.2.1 System WPARs
7.2.2 Application WPARs
7.2.3 Versioned WPARs
7.3 Support of SAP applications running in WPARs
7.3.1 Supported scenarios
7.4 Sample installation of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 in a Shared System WPAR
7.5 Live Application Mobility
Chapter 8. SAP system setup for virtualization
8.1 SAP Adaptive Computing
8.1.1 Overview
8.1.2 Adaptive Computing compliance test
8.1.3 Technical Implementation
8.2 SAP instance profile changes
8.2.1 Dynamic work processes
8.2.2 Extended memory tuning recommendations for AIX
8.2.3 Extended memory tuning recommendations for IBM i
8.3 Virtual Memory tuning in AIX for SAP systems
8.4 Main storage pools, work process priorities, and workload capping on IBM i
8.4.1 Separation of main storage pools
8.4.2 Work process priorities and workload capping
8.5 Active Memory Expansion for SAP systems
8.6 Processor utilization metrics
8.6.1 Introduction
8.6.2 Test case
8.6.3 Processor time measurement and SMT
8.6.4 PURR-based metrics in POWER7
8.6.5 Processor time in SAP applications
8.6.6 Side effects of PURR based metrics in Shared Pool environments
Chapter 9. Monitoring
9.1 Performance Monitoring in AIX
9.1.1 The vmstat monitoring tool
9.1.2 The sar monitoring tool
9.1.3 The mpstat tool
9.1.4 The lparstat tool
9.1.5 The topas tool
9.1.6 The nmon tool
9.2 Performance monitoring on IBM i
9.2.1 Ad-hoc Performance Tools on IBM i
9.2.2 Performance data collection tools on IBM i
9.2.3 Performance Data Analysis Tools on IBM i
9.2.4 Enhanced tools for root cause analysis
9.3 Other monitoring tools
9.3.1 LPAR2rrd
9.3.2 Ganglia
9.3.3 Tivoli Monitoring
9.4 Monitoring of virtualized SAP systems
9.4.1 Motivation and challenges
9.4.2 SAP CCMS operating system monitor
9.4.3 SAP Monitoring Infrastructure
9.5 SAP EarlyWatch and SAP GoingLive check services
9.6 IBM Insight for SAP
9.6.1 Installing and configuring IBM Insight for SAP
9.6.2 Data collection
9.6.3 Report Generation Service
Chapter 10. Support statements by IBM and SAP
10.1 SAP general support statement
10.2 AIX
10.3 IBM i
10.4 Linux
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