SAP Note 1656099 - SAP on AWS: Supported SAP, DB/OS and AWS ...

SAP Note 1656099 SAP on AWS: Supported SAP, DB/OS and AWS EC2 products Note Language: English

Version: 14 Validity:

Valid Since 02.04.2013

Summary Symptom You would like to know, which SAP products, DB/OS combinations and AWS EC2 instance types are currently supported on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.

Other terms Amazon, AWS, EC2, S3, VPC, EBS, Cloud, Public Cloud, IaaS

Reason and Prerequisites AWS offers infrastructure services that can be utilized for deployment of SAP products. This note describes which SAP products, DB/OS combinations and AWS EC2 instance types are currently supported.

Solution For further information on AWS support prerequisites, see SAP note 1656250 (SAP on AWS: Support prerequisites). The following SAP products are supported on Amazon Web Services (AWS):

Applications running on Application Server(s) ABAP and/or Java as part of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 or higher, using SAP Kernel 7.20 & 7.20 EXT: dw (SP #216, PL #216 or higher) for Linux, and dw (SP #218, PL #218 or higher) for Windows. Remark: SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation on NetWeaver (BPCNW) is thus a supported product. The following OS and RDBMS platforms are supported: o

Sybase ASE 15.7.0.013 or higher

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IBM DB2 DB2 Version 9.7 or higher

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MaxDB Version 7.8 or higher

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or higher

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 or higher

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or higher

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Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher Remark: According to note 1618590, "Oracle reserves the right to reproduce problems on native hardware", which is typically not possible in an IaaS's environment. As long as this limitation persists, the Oracle DB cannot be supported.

The following AWS EC2 instance types (server sizes) are suitable for deployment of SAP software in 2-tier or 3-tier configurations: o

2-tier SAP system configurations In 2-tier configurations, you install all SAP components on the

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SAP Note 1656099 SAP on AWS: Supported SAP, DB/OS and AWS EC2 products same operating system to avoid network contention. For this configuration, the following instance types are currently suitable: Instance Type m2.2xlarge m2.4xlarge o

ECU 13 26

SAPS 3,700 7,400

3-tier SAP system configurations The following instance types are primarily supported for use as a database instance up to the listed number of SAPS:

Instance Type ECU SAPS cc2.8xlarge 7 x 88 90,330 Any of the supported instance types can be used as the (A)SCS and/or Dialog instance(s). For a detailed description of the AWS EC2 instance types and Elastic Compute Units (ECU), see http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, version 3.1 or higher, where version 4.0 FP3 or higher is preferred. The following OS, RDBMS and J2EE-server versions are supported: o

Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher

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All SUSE and Red Hat linux versions that are listed in the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) for SAP BI. The PAM is available at http://www.service.sap.com/pam

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All RDBMS and J2EE application server versions that are listed in the PAM for SAP BI.

The following resource requirements should be fulfilled: o

For BI version 4.0, EC2 Instance Types with a SAP performance rating of 7,400 SAPS or higher should be used. The SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Sizing Estimator is available at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/1055c550-ce4 5-2f10-22ad-a6050fff97f1. The SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Sizing Companion Guide is available at https://service.sap.com/~sapdownload/011000358700000307202011E/SBO_ BI_4_0_Companion_V4.pdf.

Constraint: All CMS und Reporting databases should be installed locally on their BI servers, and should not be connected through WAN network connections. Furthermore, all database nodes should be deployed within the same AWS Availability Zone.

SAP Afaria, version 7 or higher The following OS version is supported: o

Windows Server 2008 R2, or higher

The following AWS EC2 instance types are supported for SAP Afaria: o

m1.small, m1.medium, m1.large

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SAP Note 1656099 SAP on AWS: Supported SAP, DB/OS and AWS EC2 products o

m2.xlarge, or larger m2

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cc2.8xlarge

Header Data Release Status: Released on: Master Language: Priority: Category: Primary Component:

Released for Customer 03.04.2013 08:27:15 English Recommendations/additional info Installation information BC-OP-LNX-AWS Amazon Web Services

Secondary Components: BC-OP-NT-AWS Amazon Web Services

The Note is release-independent

Related Notes Number 1697114 1656250 1618572 1600156 1588896 1380654 171356

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Short Text Determining hardware ID in Amazon clouds SAP on AWS: Support prerequisites Linux: Support Statement for RHEL on Amazon Web Services DB6: Support statement for DB2 on Amazon Web Services Linux: Support Statement for SLES on Amazon Web Services SAP support in public cloud environments SAP software on Linux: Essential information

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