Virtualization Infrastructure
Are you operating SAP applications, operating systems, and databases in virtual environments? Here you’ll find product documentation, blogs, articles, Q&As, SAP Notes, and more.
Get an overview on the support of SAP applications, operating systems, and databases, and their required setup and configurations in virtual environments.
Customers can now run all SAP applications that agree with the General Support Statement for Virtualization with Hyper-V 2022.
VMware vSphere 8.0 was released recently to run SAP Applications that agree with the General Support Statement for Virtualization.
SAP Note 1409608 - Virtualization on Windows
SAP Note 1122387 - Linux: SAP Support in virtualized environments
Want to know more about support of SAP applications in public cloud environments?
Best Practices
Are you looking for relevant configuration guidelines for your on-premise virtualized environment?
SAP Note 2161991 - VMware vSphere configuration guidelines
SAP Note 1246467 - Hyper-V Configuration Guidelines
SAP Note 1400911 - Linux: SAP NetWeaver on Red Hat KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine
SAP Note 1522993 - Linux: SAP on SUSE KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Hyper-V 2016
Make sure to install Microsoft KB 4093120 on hypervisor level before running SAP applications on Hyper-V 2016.
How to protect SAP applications against L1 terminal fault?
The L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) is a new variant of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities that might occur on Intel CPUs. Even when L1TF has no direct impact to the SAP application, protecting the underlying technology layers might impact the performance of your SAP application.
2680466 - How to protect SAP applications against L1 terminal fault exploit?
