SAP on VMware vSphere

The information on this page is valid for all SAP applications which agree with the General Support Statement for Virtual Environments ( see SAP Note 1492000 ). For any questions regarding the content of this document please send an e-mail to erieger@vmware.com .

SAP Notes Related to VMware and Specific Information

For a list of SAP Notes that are related to the use of SAP applications on VMware products, see SAP Notes Related to VMware .
For SAP HANA on vSphere check out following page: SAP HANA on VMware vSphere.
For SAP on vSAN read the SAP on VMware Virtual SAN page.

News

SAP HANA 2.0 Scale-UP and Scale-Out deployments are now supported with vSphere 6.7U2/U3 on Intel Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake and Cascade Lake based server systems. Details SAP note 2393917.
TDI phase 5 - workload based sizing is now available for VMware virtualized SAP HANA systems starting with Broadwell CPU generation. This allows different memory configurations as the still valid SAP appliance configurations. For details please check out SAP note 2779240 - Workload-based sizing for virtualized environments.
New vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 Skylake Best Practices got recently published and are available for Skylake customers running SAP HANA on VMware vSphere.
VMware Tools Version 10.3.0 Recall and Workaround Recommendations ( 57796 ).
Latest information on a new Intel speculative-execution vulnerability CVE-2018-3646 August 14th 2018
SAP support for vSphere 6.7, please read SAP note “1409608 – Virtualization on Windows” and SAP note “1122387 – Linux: SAP Support in virtualized environments” for further details.
Like most other vendors, VMware has released patches for the recently identified vulnerabilities in microprocessors code named Spectre (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754). Please see VMware Advisory page https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0002.html for further instructions, in particular to the Spectre vulnerability, whereas ESXi and related VMware products are not affected by Meltdown vulnerability, as stated in following blog https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2018/01/vmsa-2018-0002.html .

Support Information

For a collection of recent support issues with VMware vSphere, check Known Support Issues.

Supported SAP Applications

With the General Support Statement for Virtual Environments, SAP supports all applications and components - except BWA and SAP ITS 6.20 - on a proven stack of VMware vSphere, operating system and database. Check SAP Note 1492000 for prerequisites and conditions of support.

Supported Guest Operating Systems by SAP

The table below provides a short overview on supported guest operating systems. For prerequisites and configuration details for support, check SAP Note 1409608 on Windows and SAP Note 2369910 on Linux.

For a detailed list of supported guest operating systems by VMware vSphere, please read the Guest OS Compatibility Guide.

Hypervisor Guest OS*	VMware vSphere 5.x, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7
Windows Server 2003, 2008 (R2), 2012 (R2), 2016, 2019	supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA	supported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	supported

*For specific OS versions check out SAP Note 2235581 (SAP HANA), 1580509 (Windows Server Editions supported by SAP) and 2369910 (SAP Software on Linux)

SAP OS related WIKI Pages:

Supported Databases

The table below provides a short overview on supported databases. For detailed information on support of your database product, check the relevant SAP Notes listed below.

Hypervisor Database	VMware vSphere 5.x, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7
IBM DB2	supported (*1)
MaxDB, livecache	supported (*2)
Microsoft SQL Server	supported
Oracle Database	supported (*3)
SAP ASE	supported (*4)
SAP IQ	supported (*5)
SAP HANA	supported (*6)

(*1) only for specified DB, VMware and guest OS versions listed in SAP Note 1130801 and http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/im/DB2+Virtualization+Support
(*2) see SAP Note 1142243
(*3) Oracle support was restricted until Sept. 2019. SAP Note 1173954 reflects the most current details.
(*4) released as of SAP ASE version 15.7; see SAP Note 1706801
(*5) released as of SAP IQ version 15.4, see VMware document SAP Sybase IQ on VMware vSphere
(*6) For support information on SAP HANA and SAP HANA-related applications with VMware vSphere, see SAP Note 2652670 and the page SAP HANA on VMware vSphere.

Frequently Asked Questions

For a list of frequently asked questions for the operation on SAP applications with VMware vSphere, check Frequently Asked Questions: VMware vSphere.

Getting Started and VMware Documents regarding SAP Products

VMware Best Practices Guide updated for vSphere 6: see Updated for vSphere 6 - SAP on VMware Best Practices guide
SAP VMware Alliance webpage, see SAP Virtualization and VMware: Run SAP Virtual
For the operation of SAP software with VMware, see VMware documents regarding SAP products
For Customer Case Studies with SAP on VMware, see http://www.vmware.com/business-critical-apps/sap-virtualization/customer-success.html.
For consulting services with VMware, see Assess, Create, and Adopt a Virtualization and Cloud Strategy
Blog: VMware - Business Critical Applications - SAP

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