SAP Solutions Running on Red Hat Enterprise Server 6 KVM

The latest KVM virtualization technology which is now part of RHEL 6 (the latest RHEL series from Redhat) is now ready for SAP Solution.


This paper gives you a detailed technical overview of the benefits when running SAP® Solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Server 6 Kernel-Based Virtual Machine and Intel® E7-x800 Processor.


You can downlod this white paper here (http://download.sap.com/download.epd?context=6FD63C538EA3D116ED2748A276FC43D0E40EA41954E33D8DF1433DF8917BF2E6C91F282E857FFC60D740FAD3B608057944A422C27B998A2D).

Linux distro supported by SAP

Currently SAP has support Linux as well as other OS such as IBM AIX, HP HP-UX, SUN Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. You can install SAP R/3 server on hardware that running Linux. SAP try to do their best to support Linux. However, to minimize confuseness and standardization, SAP only support some of Linux distro. Linux distro which has been supported by SAP are Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SuSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES).

From all of Linux distro that Redhat and Novell has, this list give you explanation about which version :

Novell / SUSE:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86, x86_64, IPF, IBM iSeries, IBM pSeries and IBM zSeries
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for x86, x86_64, IPF, IBM iSeries, IBM pSeries and IBM zSeries
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86, IPF and IBM zSeries (out of maintenance)
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IA32 and IBM zSeries (out of maintenance)
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for IA32 (out of maintenance)

Red Hat:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for x86, x86_64, IPF, IBM iSeries, IBM pSeries and IBM zSeries
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for x86, x86_64, IPF, IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for x86 and IPF
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 for x86
• Red Hat Linux 7.1 Professional (out of maintenance)
• Red Hat Linux 6.2 (out of maintenance)
• Red Hat Linux 6.1 Enterprise Version 1.0 (out of maintenance)

Other Linux distro maybe unofficially supported but that's fine. Distro like CentOS, Startcom can be used because they are RHEL compatible. Popular and famous distro like Debian, Ubuntu still not supported yet. But still, you can try it on development system.

I have already test RHEL 4 and SLES 9 as SAP R/3 server. It has great performance and stable. So, try it out., guys.