This document describes the SAP Landscape Management scenarios with Linux on Power. For other IBM platforms refer to the parent document IBM On-Premise Cloud Configuration for SAP.
IBM PowerVC is the virtualization and cloud management product, built on OpenStack, that delivers advanced virtualization and storage management on IBM Power Systems. OpenStack technology has evolved as industry standard for infrastructure-as-a-service management. This technology has been made available for SAP on IBM Power environments by supporting PowerVC with SAP Landscape Management.
SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems is supported for all scenarios and configurations described here.
Virtualization scenarios:
The following virtualization scenarios are supported with any type of storage and storage attachment:
| Use Case | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
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End-to-end monitoring and visualization |
Show virtualization topology, server and virtualization configuration, and utilization metrics |
IBM PowerVC |
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OS and SAP monitoring |
SAP host agent |
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Operations |
Activate/ Deactivate, shutdown virtual system (logical partition) |
IBM PowerVC |
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Relocate virtual system (live partition mobility) |
IBM PowerVC |
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Provisioning |
Provision new virtual system from image |
IBM PowerVC |
Storage scenarios:
The following storage-related scenarios are supported:
| Use Case | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
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SAP Relocate |
Relocate SAP instance or database including storage attachment |
SVC, V7000, XIV, FlashSystem (NPIV or direct attached SAN) |
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System Clone/Copy/Refresh |
Fast offline cloning of database or entire SAP system |
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System Rename |
Rename SAP system and database including user authorization |
IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SAN Volume Controller / SVC or Storwize V7000) provides storage virtualization and allows to combine storage systems from multiple vendors. Likewise, IBM FlashSystem models with integrated storage virtualization (V9000, V840) are supported.
SAP scenarios:
- Automatic Capacity Management including provisioning of additional dialog instances is supported.
- Post-Copy Automation is supported.
SAP notes and documentation:
- Note 2372251 – Integration of IBM Components into SAP LaMa 3.0 for IBM Power
- Note 2075173 – Integration of IBM Components into SAP LVM 2.1 for IBM Power
- Solution Brief: SAP infrastructure management with PowerVC
What is coming next?
The latest version of PowerVC supports consistency groups to snapshot a group of volumes at one point in time. SAP Landscape Management will exploit this feature soon to enable online cloning.