Support statements by IBM and SAP
This chapter covers hardware and software requirements for the use of virtualization technologies in SAP landscapes on IBM PowerVM.
10.1 SAP general support statement
SAP has summarized the generic support for virtualization technologies in SAP Note 1492000. This is also a good starting point, because it contains references to several platform-specific SAP Notes.
10.2 AIX
SAP Note 1492000 contains a section that covers all AIX-specific SAP Notes related to virtualization.
10.3 IBM i
PowerVM virtualization is mostly transparent to the IBM i operating system, so you can refer to the SAP Product Availability Matrix for a list of supported SAP products and IBM i operating system releases. This is also valid for the database “IBM DB2 for i”, which is included in the operating system. There are a few cases where the SAP operating system monitor does not reflect certain virtualization technologies, including Active Memory Sharing (AMS) and Workload Capping. You may use these technologies, but you may need to get support from IBM rather than SAP in some circumstances of performance problems. In order to get support from IBM in those cases, it is highly recommended that you start an operating system performance data collection (see 9.2.2, “Performance data collection tools on IBM i” on page 111), and that you have the licensed program “IBM Performance tools for i” installed (57xx-PT1 - Manager Feature). For a support statement from SAP, see SAP Notes 1492000 and 1002461.
10.4 Linux
SAP supports the following IBM Linux distributions for use with SAP solutions:
•Novell SUSE Linux:
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11)
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10)
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9)
•Red Hat:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4)
Table 10-1 shows the support matrix of Linux distributions and processor generations.
Table 10-1 Support matrix
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POWER7
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POWER6
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POWER5
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SLES11
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SLES10
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(SP3 and newer)
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(SP2 and newer)
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(SP2 and newer)
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SLES9
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RHEL6
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RHEL5
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(QU5 and newer)
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(QU2 and newer)
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RHEL4
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(QU7 and newer)
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See also:
For more detailed information, see Chapter 2, “PowerVM virtualization technologies” on page 11.
To take advantage of POWER systems capabilities, such as Dynamic Logical Partitioning (DLPAR), you have to install additional software components. These are available and known as Diagnostic Tools for Linux Systems from the following website:
Download the tools to the Linux system and install them according to the documentation on the website.
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