The document outlines recent updates and developments regarding SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications, highlighting its extensive market share, partnership with SAP, and ongoing improvements in automation, high availability, and monitoring capabilities. Key features discussed include the introduction of Saptune version 2 for tuning SAP environments, deployment options across various platforms, and the launch of new automated deployment scripts for SAP HANA. Additionally, SUSE emphasizes its collaboration with SAP and partners for enhancing operations and support for SAP workloads in the future.

1. SAP and SUSE – What’s new?
Christian Holsing
Senior Product Manager SLES for SAP Applications
SUSE / christian.holsing@suse.com

2. Infrastructure for SAP Solutions - SLES for SAP Applications
• SAP Software Development Reference Platform
• SAP on SLES Certification in 1999
• SUSE is founding Partner of SAP Linux Lab
• 12000+ joint Customers, ~100 References
• 80+% Market Share Worldwide for SAP workloads on
Linux
• Integrated 24x7 Support through SAP Solution Manager
for SLES for SAP
• Appliance and OS Platform
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SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator*
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SAP High Performance Analytic Appliance
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SAP StreamWork Enterprise Agent*
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SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search*
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SAP Business ByDesign*
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SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud*
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SAP's own ERP on HANA runs SUSE
SAP success story:
http://scn.sap.com/community/linux/blog/2015/10/09/sap-se-relies-on-suse-also-for-the-sap-hana-enterprise-cloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Solutions - Overview

3. A Lot of Things Have Happened in the Last Year
Besides general OS topics like Spectre, Meltdown and Zombieland ….
.... As well as business as usual working with our partners (IHW’s and CSP’s)
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SLES for SAP Applications updates
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SLES for SAP Application support changes
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SAP Configuration & Tuning updates
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NVDIMM / Intel Optane DCPMM support
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High Availability updates
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DataHub / Container support
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Roadmap / Future Directions updates

4. Deployment options on SLES for SAP
SAP NetWeaver, SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA and DataHub
BareMetal based
Intel, IBM Power,
IBM System Z (NW)
Virtualized
VMWare, KVM, Open Stack, SUSE CAP
Public Cloud
Azure, AWS, GCP,
Alibaba, IBM Cloud
Container based
SUSE CaaS Platform, Gardenener,
Kubernetes
Same features almost everywhere
• Tuning
• HA deployment
• Automation
• Monitoring
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5. SAP Configuration & Tuning

6. saptune 2
Tuning on SLES for SAP Applications focused on SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, etc.
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saptune version 2 available
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What is new?
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More SAP Notes / Full SAP Notes
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Improved usability: Better verification / More transparency
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Every parameter will be configurable/disengagable
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Own Notes for customers and partners
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What is to come?
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Improved Logging
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Maschine-readable interface
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Cloud and HA awarness
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More information
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SAP Note “1275776 - Linux: Preparing SLES for SAP environments”
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Blog Post: https://www.suse.com/c/saptune-a-deep-dive/
Version 1 deprecated. Please migrate.
Demo at the
booth!
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7. High Availability

8. Ability to perform post-mortem graphical analysis on cluster
logs on Hyperscaler
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SAPHanaSR-replay-archive
to directly extract SAPHanaSR
attributes from an hb_report archive
SAPHanaSR-monitor creates
HTML page sequences to validate
cluster decisions and to replay
transitions
Demo at the
booth!

9. Automation and monitoring

10. Deployment automation
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SUSE has been focussing on automated SAP deployments in the past through YaST modules
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Currently there have been various activities underway to rework the automation with SALT based recipes
 Allows integration with SLES for SAP on CLI and YaST as well as SUSE Manager based automation
 Split into multiple recipes that are similar to Lego bricks and allow partly automated or fully automated deployments
 Initial set of SAP HANA deployment scripts are already available on SUSE package hub as preview. Customers are
starting to use the code and provide feedback
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Deploys single node and clustered HANA instances
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SUSE and Microsoft started a joint open source project in this area on Azure
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Same automation approach is coming next for Netweaver
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Links:
 https://packagehub.suse.com/packages/saphanabootstrap-formula/
 https://github.com/SUSE/saphanabootstrap-formula

11. SAP HANA monitoring project
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Several open source projects exists for
monitoring that are part of SLES for SAP
 Prometheus to collect data
 Grafana to render and aggregate collected data
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SUSE is investing improviding packages
tailored for SAP monitoring right now
 HANA monitoring
 Cluster monitoring
 OS monitoring
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Grafana provides dashboarding, aggregation
and alerting mechanisms out of the box

12. DataHub / Container

13. SAP Data Hub
Architectural Overview on SUSE CaaS Platform and SUSE Enterprise Storage
SAP Data Hub Foundation containerized
Tenant Applications / Services (Managed by System Management)
Diagnostics
Internal
SAP HANA
Pipeline Modeler
Database Tools
Flow Agent
Spark on K8S
Metadata Explorer
Connection Management
Vora Database
System Management
• SUSE CaaS Platform (Kubernetes)
• SUSE Enterprise Storage
not containerized
optional
Hadoop cluster
HDFS / Spark
Vora Spark Extension
Docker Registry
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14. SAP Gardener
Large-Scale Kubernetes Cluster Management System
Uses Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes clusters
SAP project which is fully Open Source (available on GitHub)
Used by SAP to host SAP Cloud Services on Hyperscalers
SUSE is co-developing with SAP
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15. Roadmap / Future Directions

16. SUSE’s Planned Focus Areas for SAP Workloads
Ongoing investment in operating enhancements for SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA
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High Availability enhancements
Support of new technologies that are relevant for the SAP space
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New hardware, such as NVDIMM
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Container-based workloads
Consolidation of tooling
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saptune / sapconf
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Modular components
automation and monitoring
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Automated deployment of SAP HANA or SAP Netweaver
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Intelligent open source based monitoring for SAP Solutions

17. LinuxLab
Cooperation between SAP and it’s partners
OS vendors, Hardware, Cloud, Virtualization...
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20+ years of joint collaboration and innovation
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SAP Alliance Team represents SUSE
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Located at the SAP Campus in St. Leon-Rot (Rot 22)
We help…
SAP and their partners collaborate with SUSE
SUSE collaborate with SAP and their partners
Dirk Oppenkowski
Director SAP Alliance
Markus Gürtler
Sr. Technical Alliance Mgr
& Team Lead
Fabian Herschel
Principal
Technical Architect SAP
Ulrich Schairer
Sr. Technical Architect SAP
Lee Martin
Sr. Technical Architect SAP
Sören Schmidt
Sr. Technical Architect SAP
Bernd Schubert
Sr. Technical Architect SAP
Christian Holsing
Senior Product Manager

18. FURTHER INFORMATION
Best Practices
www.suse.com/products/sles-for-sap/resource-library/sap-best-practices.html
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
www.suse.com/products/sles-for-sap/
Training
elearning.suse.com/product-line/sles12/
training.suse.com/training/suse-linux-enterprise-server-2/

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