SAP Basis

Introduction to SAP Basis

Mina Philip H. Goubrial

SAP Basics
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Technology architecture
SAP Basis
Hardware server and disk basics
Operating system considerations
Database considerations
Traditional and contemporary infrastructure providers

SAP Technology: SAP Basis

Application Databases Operating Systems Hardware
.SAP Basis .Business application

SAP system . SAP

.SAP end-users

SAP Hardware Basics

Disk storage systems powerful computers Servers Hardware
Cloud-based virtualized storage Network-attached storage Storage Area Networks
hardware .firewalls switches routers Network gear
.Sizing SAP hardware architecture .SAP

SAP applications systems hardware

IBM HP hardware partner . Applications
.

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SAP server hardware datacenter outsourcing provider

cloud provider servers cost performance
small medium large

server HP server
. server
cloud .

server operating systems database .

operating systems
databases hardware CPUs core
processors memory server .servers system bus characteristics
SAP standard .SAPS Benchmark

SAPS Benchmark
STANDARD SAP SAPS SAP Application Performance Standard
computing platforms . hardware vendors
benchmark operating systems databases
SAPS HP server Windows SQL Server
HP server Linux Oracle IBM p-series server AIX DB2
.
SERVERS benchmark SAP SAPS .

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Server Hardware Vendors
SERVER virtualized datacenter servers
.hardware vendors vendors Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Oracle, and Unisys
CPUs intel AMD . IBM
standard servers x-series standard p-series
standards i-series . z-series HP .Oracle dense
blade servers pizza box servers

Server Availability Features

servers SAP High Availability .
servers redundant power supplies redundant memory disk controllers
data disk drives NICs switch NICs.

Network redundant switch

redundant NICs cables . high availability

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hardware .Disk storage systems Virtualized server computing

power Servers Virtualized cloud-based storage .Disk storage systems
Storage SAP storage database SAP installation
files .OS storage speed . availability

Storage Area Networks

storage performance ) Storage Area Networks (SANs
physical disks SAP database server
I/O ) . Host Bus Adapters (HBAs SANs
.application SANs Shared Storage SAP systems
SANs .Primary disk storage
Network-Attached Storage
SAP systems Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems
. SANs SANs NAS devices database server database
. server NAS devices NICs . HBAs NICs
SAP application server applications . NAS devices
.SAN environments
Direct-Attached Storage
Direct-Attached storage systems .SAP systems disk solution
Disk drives database server disk 42 small cabinet
SAP database server . IT solution
.
Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage Amazon Microsoft
Rackspace solution
performance active SAP databases I/O operations
Cloud storage .

over network links virtualized storage

SAP database SAP SAP system
.virtualized storage provider virtualized storage sandbox
demonstration system systems production SAP system
production system storage solution cloud storage non-
production systems SANs NAS storage devices .production systems

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Storage System Performance
Disk Storage mid-tier, and low-tier,
.high-end disk storage metric I/O operations Storage
megabytes Device .

:
key metrics Disk spindles
( Cache memory
.)I/O

Disk space Performance

SAP . SAP 01 41
011 .

Storage System Availability

performance Availability .
availability Hardware Redundancy Software .
Redundant connections ( Database Servers redundant HBAs SAN
redundant NICs NAS Cloud storage redundant disk controllers direct attached
.)storage
: Disks disk failure
.RAID configuration RAID Availability performance
.

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RAID Types and Tradeoffs TABLE 3.1

Advantages and Disadvantages Method of RAID Level
Availability
Disk striping RAID 0
Redundancy
protection
.production systems

performance .
Disk mirroring RAID 1

. performance
redundancy

Disk striping RAID 5

with parity

parity
performance

.
Redundancy .

Disk mirroring RAID 10

and striping )(1+0, or 0+1

Parity
. RAID10
performance redundancy
RAID1

availability .disk storage

SAN replication .disaster recovery

:
SANs snapshots SAP

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. on the fly databases
. Rapid system backup
.testing training systems

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) operating system (OS Applications SAP computer

processing Memory Disks Files .. Network connections . OS
Middleman Hardware OS . Application Micrososft Windows Server RedHat
SUSU Linux OS ( UNIX HP-UX IBM AIX )Oracle Solaris SAP
SAP OS/400 z/OS
mainframe IBM i-series z-series

OS Windows Linux 64-bit

Technology UNIX . clouding
Microsofts Azure VMwares vSphere
.

OS :
OS SAP .
OS .SAP
IT Dept. .OS
IT .OS
IT

Important OS Features
OS . OS
Memory OS Crash recovery .
Clustering . built-in
management and configuration tools OS third part tools
monitoring applications virus scanning packages backup software
SAP
database file systems .

SAP File Systems

SAP OS .Data
SAP services processes .OS
UNIX Linux SAP SAP binaries Log files profiles
Libraries directory /usr/sap Windows SAP files
. x:\usr\sap
UNIX Linux /sapmnt NFS (network file system) mount
> /usr/sap/<SID local file system Windows x:\usr\sap direcory share
sapmnt \\servername\sapmnt
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SAP instances OS installation instances of SAP Windows

.sapmnt directory installation

OS controller SAPOSCOL service

memory CPU utilization performance OS SAP
SID (SAPService<SID> Service . disk i/o activity utilization
service OS SAP instance ) SAP instance system identifier
profile SAP service sapstartsrv.exe
.SAP system

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SAP system system Systems SAP database

) system identifier (SID . SAP ERP production system PRD
database central services 0 application server 011
( instances 4 01 workload ) .
instances .single SAP ERP production system
SAP instances .single SAP CRM production system

SAP OS-Based Work Processes

SAP OS 8 work processes .
.DVEBMSG D dialog work process V ( update work process
V1 )V2 E enqueue B background/batch jobs M
message service S print spooling G .SAP gateway
instance profile SAP instance processes
instance system startup time instance profile text file
.

work processes OS utility OS

transactions SM50 .SM66 SAP work processes
systems workload instance system workprocess
.
SM50 work processes Application server SM66
work processes .SAP system

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SAP Work Processes

Description Work Process Type
Dialog
real time information
foreground

Background
long-running processes
reports
batch jobs
Synchronous update
updates database
V1
Asynchronous update
updates database
V1 V2
Enqueue
Fields database
.field
Message
Application servers
system
Spool
print jobs print spool
Gateway
SAP
SAP systems
Non-SAP systems

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SAP OS-Level Profiles

Profiles . instance profile Start profile the default profile : profiles 3 SAP instance
.instance SAP database text files
. SAP system SAP instances default profile
instances application servers 6 central instance database production system
.default profile
instance profile .SAP Start profile
. ... buffer settings memory configuration parameters instance
. parameters profiles transaction: RZ10

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hardware OS . Database OS SAP

version database SAP . databases
Microsoft SQL Server IBM DB2 SAP .Oracle Databases database
MaxDB Sybase SAP 4101 SAP Sybase SAP Sybase database

Microsoft SQL Server Oracle .Windows SAP Windows Linux . UNIX DB2
mainframe systems.
IT SAP database vendor version OS
. ) Database Administrator (DBA
SAP SAP .Database Oracle SQL
server DB2 Performance .Pricing models
:
High availaibility database Clustering Mirroring Snapshot Cloning
database . Log shipping disaster
.recoverability

A Quick Database Primer

database enterprise applications SAP data
.enterprise applications data database
financial report sales order .
SAP components ERP data .database
component database . production environment SAP
ERP ) SAP Netweaver Enterprise Portal (EP SAP CRM databases.
database SAP system data .SAP component
database tables columns fields rows .records basic
structure database spreadsheets .Micrososft Excel
database spreadsheet database multiple tables
relationships . database .spreadsheet

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Tables, Indexes, and Structure

SAP database tables . products ERP
tables 21111 ) SAP Netweaver Process Integration (PI
. tables 01111 SAP systems %01 tables database
%01 data tables
.
tables relationships . relational
) database management system (RDBMS
index database data .
index table of contents view table key
fields . data .data
fields Index Index pointer record
record table . indexes %01 SAP
database.
SAP Transparent Tables SAP database tables
. Transparent table database table
.ABAP/4 Data Dictionary Transparent table database table ABAP/4 Dictionary
. fields Fields . fields
fields table . data
.
.database structures database structures
internal fields . SAP ABAP/4 Data
Dictionary data .
database structures database tables
structure primary key
structure technical properties class size category buffering
.specifications

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