2020-04-03 171356

171356 - SAP Software on Linux: General information

Version 332 Type SAP Note
Language English Master Language German
Priority Correction with high priority Category Installation information
Release Status Released for Customer Released On 23.09.2016
Component BC-OP-LNX ( Linux )

Please find the original document at https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/ 171356

Symptom

You want to install SAP software on Linux.

Other Terms

Redhat, redhat, RH, SUSE, SuSE, Suse, suse, Swapspace, swapspace, swap-space,
ServicePack, IA-64, IA64, x86_64, AMD, Opteron, EM64T, POWER, zSeries, System z,
Oracle Linux, OL

Reason and Prerequisites

You want to install SAP software on Linux.

Solution

Due to technical restrictions, this SAP Note had to be closed.

Refer to SAP Note 2369910 instead.

Due to technical restrictions, this SAP Note had to be closed.

Refer to SAP Note 2369910 instead.

This document refers to

SAP Note/KBA Title

2369910 SAP Software on Linux: General information

This document is referenced by

SAP Note/KBA Title

1906423 Support details for Veritas

2398248 Support statement for Thales eSecurity Vormetric Transparent Encryption

1880960 Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA Platform Edition FW/OS/Driver Maintenance

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1807851 Linux: SAP on Huawei FusionSphere virtualization

1656099 SAP Applications on AWS: Supported DB/OS and AWS EC2 products

1102760 PowerVM Live Partition Mobility

1805750 SYB: Usage of HugePages on Linux Systems with SAP Sybase ASE

1122387 Linux: SAP Support in virtualized environments

2097317 Linux on Power: SAP on PowerKVM - Kernel-Based Virtual Machine

2369910 SAP Software on Linux: General information

1650046 Lenovo Solution for SAP HANA - Operations Guide

1552925 Linux: High Availability Cluster Solutions

1631106 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications

1644499 Database connectivity from Linux to SQL Server

1275776 Linux: Preparing SLES for SAP environments

1557506 Linux paging improvements

765424 Linux: Released IBM Hardware - POWER based servers

916649 System prerequisites for Linux X64 SAP MaxDB/liveCache 7.5-7.9

1661146 Lenovo/IBM Check Tool for SAP HANA appliances

1565179 SAP software and Oracle Linux

1693245 SAP HA Script Connector Library

1944799 SAP HANA Guidelines for SLES Operating System Installation

2009879 SAP HANA Guidelines for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Operating System

1808268 SAP on Oracle VM - Oracle VM Support

1067221 Composite SAP Note for heterogeneous installation

2161991 VMware vSphere configuration guidelines

1984787 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12: Installation notes

1779681 Central note on HPE Serviceguard HA/DR clustering solutions

2002167 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x: Installation and Upgrade

936887 End of maintenance for Linux distributions

618104 "sapsysinfo" - Collecting system information on Linux

1173954 Support of Oracle Database for VMware

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1908655 Support details for Red Hat Enterprise Linux HA Add-On

1391070 Linux UUID solutions

1492000 General Support Statement for Virtual Environments

1500607 Support requirements for SAP in Veritas Environments

1522993 Linux: SAP on SUSE KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine

1380654 SAP support in IaaS environments

1768213 Support details for NEC EXPRESSCLUSTER

1618572 Linux: Support Statement for RHEL on Amazon Web Services

171383 Linux: Approved Fujitsu Technology Solutions hardware

1379130 Linux: Released NEC hardware

1699171 Dell EMC support tool for SAP HANA/BWA appliances

401162 Linux: Avoiding TCP/IP port conflicts and start problems

1656250 SAP on AWS: Support prerequisites

962334 Linux: SAP on SUSE Xen virtual machine

1763512 Support details for SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications

1400911 Linux: SAP NetWeaver on Red Hat KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine

1496410 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x: Installation and Upgrade

1048303 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x: Installation and upgrade

405827 Linux: Recommended file systems

1426182 Support of Oracle Database for XEN and KVM

1706801 SYB: SAP ASE released for virtual systems

1848432 NEC SAP HANA Appliance Operations Guide

1771258 Linux: User and system resource limits

1817065 SAP on Oracle VM - Monitoring SAP for Oracle VM

171371 Linux: Released Hewlett-Packard hardware

941735 SAP memory management system for 64-bit Linux systems

1687587 BWA 7.00/7.20: SLES Security Patches

823941 SAP start service on Unix platforms

187864 Linux: Locale Support on Linux

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300900 Central Dell EMC SAP Note/Supported Dell EMC hardware for Linux

2544685 Linux: Supported Supermicro Hardware

1716826 Usage of the downward compatible kernel 721 (EXT)

516716 Linux: Problems with locales after glibc update

1069443 Linux: Different sort sequence

1635808 Oracle Linux 6.x SAP Installation and Upgrade

2039615 Managing system landscapes with SAP Landscape Management Enterprise Edition

900929 Linux: STORAGE_PARAMETERS_WRONG_SET and "mmap() failed"

2039994 Managing system landscapes with SAP Landscape Management Standard Edition

916650 System prerequisites for pLinux SAP MaxDB/liveCache 7.5-7.9

910707 Linux: Japanese locale (ja_JP.SJIS) on Linux

2065323 Linux: Released Hitachi / HDS Hardware

1642802 supportconfig - collecting a system overview on OS level

1056161 SUSE Priority Support for SAP applications

1178686 Linux: Alternative method to generate a SAP hardware key

2187639 Linux 4.x kernel

1739625 Linux: SAP NetWeaver on Red Hat Xen

1130801 DB6: Virtualization of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

1403020 Linux: Certified Cisco Hardware

1310037 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11: Installation notes

2266266 Key Monitoring Metrics for SAP on VMware vSphere (version 5.5 u3 and higher)

1672954 Oracle 11g and 12c: Usage of hugepages on Linux

1728283 SAP Kernel 721: General Information

1482272 Key Monitoring Metrics for SAP on VMware vSphere (up to version 5.5 u2)

1617188 SAP Software and Oracle Exalogic

1102124 SAPOSCOL on Linux: Enhanced function

788770 Linux: R3SETUP - CALCRAM_IND_IND Phase fails

1843698 Locale check tool nls_check

1553301 7.20 EXT Kernel - Usage

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171380 Released IBM hardware (Intel processors) and IBM cloud services offers

952625 SORT AS TEXT: What does the collation sequence depend on?

1122388 Linux: VMware vSphere configuration guidelines

1553300 7.20 EXT Kernel - Extended Kernel Maintenance

1629598 SAP Kernel 720 will replace older kernel versions

1847127 NEC EXPRESSCLUSTER : Way to suspend / resume HA cluster

1437021 Signal 11 with Oracle Instant Client on Fujitsu FlexFrame

1452070 DB2-z/OS: SAP on Linux on IBM z Systems and z/VM

411970 DB2-z/OS: Application Server on Linux on IBM z Systems

1114181 Oracle Database 11g - file system support on Linux

1784717 Linux: Released VCE hardware

1588667 SAP on AWS: Overview of related SAP Notes and Web-Links

1787005 HANA installation on GPFS with timestamps in the future

1158363 VMware Performance Snapshot

1163337 Linux: Generating core dumps

1738172 Linux: High Machine Load due to Leap Second

1563102 Linux Requirements for 7.20 EXT and higher kernel

997990 Oracle Linux / Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel

1629558 Linux 3.x kernel

1310720 Collection Note for Unicode Systems w. different endianness

426188 R/3 processes terminate due to signal 9

84855 Windows Server, Linux, and UNIX: Certified hardware

768727 Automatic restart functions in sapstart for processes

977515 Linux System paged during SAP MaxDB data backup/add volume

1646120 Support for SAP software in Linux / EMC environments

1867783 XFS Data Inconsistency Bug with SLES 11 SP2

907727 Linux: Certified SGI Hardware

309834 SAP BC release and support strategy

743192 Analyzing High CPU usage by the J2EE Engine: Linux

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190218 Linux: Print output from R/3 (access method L)

574900 SAPOSCOL reports: *LINUX*: disc statistic not available

549268 SAP JCo 2.x release and support strategy

2003265 Install SAP Application Server on IBM PowerLinux for Oracle based 3-tier SAP landscape

1630050 SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management 1.0, standard edition

755836 Linux (32 bit): TEXTENV_INVALID

189582 Linux: Code page entries in table TCP0C

1567511 Oracle Linux 5.x SAP Installation and Upgrade

1889145 Diagnostics Agent HTTP calls timeout on Linux kernel 3.0.x

716604 Access to Oracle J2SE and recommended J2SE options

1920326 Oracle JDK support agreement terminated

1090932 IBM download site for special JDK builds - iFix

531069 Heterogeneous Unix - Unix Systems

1919673 Error in Unix syslog initialization

1143754 HP Support Entitlement Process

1868811 DB4: Multiconnect from Linux X86 Application Servers

1879168 Desupport of SAP Kernels 46D_EXT and 640

816145 Installation 4.6C SR2 on Linux x86_64 with Oracle

916648 System requirements Linux (IA64) liveCache/MaxDB 7.5 to 7.8

958253 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10: Installation notes

1382721 Linux: Interpreting the output of the command 'free'

1574751 Linux: libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found

1678024 Linux: NetWeaver 7.0 EhP 3 with SAP kernel 720

996600 32-bit platforms not recommended for productive NW 7.0 apps

1634767 Support for SAP software in Linux / Oracle ASM/ACFS Cluster

1807387 HANA: Possible kernel panic or hanging HANA backup with MPFS

1775101 Wrong checksum and page load errors on HP IBRIX file system

1375863 ACC 7.2 - Adaptive Computing Controller Collect. Note

1806414 B1A or B1H server CSS-LED is on

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1785617 ORA-15085: ASM disk "" has inconsistent sector size

1790812 Problems with the SAP Host Agent rpm package

1172419 Linux: Supported Java versions on the x86_64 platform

1771226 Installations on Linux with IPv6

1437105 Operating system limits for SAP instances

746299 DB2-z/OS:Recommended Settings for IBM zLinux 142 Classic JVM

1465174 DB2-z/OS:Overview of zLinux JVM for NetWeaver 6.40 and 7.0

1319038 DB2-z/OS:Recommended Settings for IBM 142 J9 JVM on zLinux

1495160 SAP JVM as replacement for Partner JDKs 1.4.2

723909 Java VM settings for J2EE 6.40/7.0

1708967 REMINDER: Switch to SAP JVM 4

1769251 Incorrect CPU metrics on RHEL 6.3 on IBM POWER

1142243 SAP MaxDB release for virtual systems

1747813 Unusual system behavior with Westmere-EX or Nehalem-EX CPUs

722273 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x, 4.x: Installation and Upgrade

1733289 Linux SUSE SLES 11 IBM Power installation of Oracle DB 10.2

1642058 Adapt SAPInst Oracle Client 11.2.0.x

1673776 Support for SAP software in Linux / CA Environments

1697030 DB2-z/OS: The SAP J2EE ConfigTool crashes on SUSE SLES 11

1606643 Linux: VMware vSphere host monitoring interface

1058988 640_EX2 Kernels

1681360 Support for SAP software in Linux / Fusion-IO Environments

1671843 Installing the SMD agent using 720_EXT kernel

1642936 Support for SAP software in RHEL with MC support of NEC

939406 System Copy 4.0B - 4.6C to Linux x86_64

1591607 SAP Kernel for SAP_BASIS releases 7.03 and 7.31

1641148 HANA server hang caused by GPFS issue

1159718 SAP kernel aborts with signal 7 (SIGBUS) on Linux/IA64/Power

597470 Linux: Released Oracle Sun servers

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1620527 Veritas Filesystem: Block corruption with large LUNs

1597355 Swap-space recommendation for Linux

1588896 Linux: Support Statement for SLES on Amazon Web Services

784391 SAP support terms and 3rd-party Linux kernel drivers

1239558 Linux: libc.so.6 version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found

797084 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9: Installation notes

1322297 BWA 7.00: Use of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/SLES 11

1559462 IBM JDK hangs when converting "2.2250738585072012e-308"

876282 Linux x86_64: Availability of R/3 4.7 Ext1.10, BW3.10, 6.x

1462332 ACC 7.3 - Adaptive Computing Controller Collect. Note

989963 Linux: VMware timing problem

1532458 Monitoring of SAP on Citrix XenServer

1519590 Virtualization with Citrix XenServer

1504570 Data corruption when using SLES 10 with Oracle and NFS

861215 Recommended Settings for the Linux on AMD64/EM64T JVM

1137734 Assignment of memory areas, shared memories, and pools

1021236 Linux: Using SAP Kernel 7.01 and higher on RHEL4 and SLES9

1422869 JSPM startup fails with "Fatal error: No usable fonts found"

1434397 Week 53 missing in Web-Dynpro for Java for certain locales

917815 System requirement Linux (32-bit) liveCache/MaxDB 7.5 to 7.8

945315 SAP installation on Linux on POWER/Oracle 10.2

1392638 Long work process wait time on semaphore 12

1375648 Linux: High performance SAP kernel

308375 64-bit SAP software

955397 RFC SDK on linux

1271224 Linux: Minimum versions for distribution w/ SAP EX2_Kernel

1380245 Linux: libldap.so not found

1097184 Analyzing high CPU consumption (IBM JDK on Linux)

1149214 Wily Introscope Agent with IBM Java VM 1.4.2 (SR1x) x86_64

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1008828 ACC 7.1 PI / Adaptive Computing Controller Collective Note

1293359 Linux: Oracle Archiver errors in alert log

1263258 IBM JDK 1.4.2 x86_64: How to get a proper heapdump for MAT

1278782 Support for SAP software in Linux / Egenera environments

894618 SCM 4.1: Availability/prerequisites of new platforms

1240731 Linux: Incorrect write I/O on SLES9

1244576 10.2.0.4 glibc and RAC

1232248 Unreasonable CPU times

1233528 Linux: MaxDB/liveCache lock problem with Veritas File System

1159935 IBM JDK 1.4.2 x86_64 option unrecognised: -Xjvm:j9vm23

1159541 IBM Java VM 1.4.2 x86_64 (Linux) OutOfMemory

1154874 Warning for em/initial_size_MB in 640 Kernel

1065860 Linux: SLES 9/10, problems with libuuid

816097 Availability of SAP on Linux for the x86_64 platform

1113184 OCFS2 useful tips

1066142 Linux: libj9vm22.so: cannot open shared object file

975196 IBM XL C/C++ Runtime environment V8.0 & Oracle 10.2 on Linux

1084263 Cluster File System: Use of GPFS on Linux

839443 TP error: Cannot execute TP during startup of LC10

767814 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8: Installation notes

832402 Linux: Certified Unisys hardware

1063365 EP: PCD content deployment fails on Linux x86 64 (IBM J9 VM)

386605 SAP Memory Management for Linux (32-bit)

902414 Linux: kernel oops when running 32 bit apps on SLES 9 x86_64

1037703 SLES10: SAPINST 642 terminates in step dGetHostInfo

860714 Linux reports "big time diff XXX for stamp YYY"

1001092 Daylight Saving Time - Changes in 2007

1009962 jdk 1.4.2_13 does not work together with jlaunch

132536 Improved semaphore mechanism in tp

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1008726 WebAS: Installation terminates at "Start Java Engine" stage

796250 SAP DB/MaxDB on Linux kernel SUSE 2.4.21-241/-251

949424 Termination when starting programs with Remote Execute

709140 Recommended JDK and VM Settings for the WebAS630/640/7.0

766222 Linux: Released IBM hardware

865307 Installing ABAP 6.40 application server on Linux x86_64

788272 Compatibility of Linux Kernel 2.6/NPTL with MaxDB

966678 Prerequisite checker message in NetWeaver 2004s installation

964705 Linux IPF: "floating-point assist fault" in Linux syslog

836992 Missing long texts for kernel error codes in SYSLOG on Linux

960510 Linux: Cannot execute binary file

959369 User ID displayed in Top40 process list instead of user name

811918 Installing MaxDB 7.5 for SAP products in Basis 46D

625674 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1: Notes on installation

922352 Warning: em/initial_size_MB is bigger than em/max_size_MB

923796 Problems due to the C stack location on x86_64 (hybrid mode)

897662 BIOS settings on AMD64 SMP systems

618173 Using SAP Kernel 6.20 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1

880018 suse-sapinit conflicts with procps on SLES9 SP2

871985 Linux: Integer Overflow if em/address_space_MB > 4092

825822 Installation 4.6C SR2 on Linux x86_64 with DB2

854073 Core dump in ab_BtreeBlockDelete() on Linux IA64

853972 ORA-27125 while creating the DB instance on Kernel 2.6 above

835114 MaxDB Errors with Linux on Power

845046 dev_w*: *** ERROR => invalid MM administration

831325 No SAP Installation CD found for Linux on POWER

814210 JDK detection for IBM JDK fails in the Startup Framework

539567 Application server monitoring with RFCPING

784999 saposcol reporting incorrect swap amount

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791747 Linux: Printing from the SAP System (access method U)

781434 46D_EXT: libcurses library not found/incorrect

772025 Linux: incorrect statistics for POWER systems using SMT

682083 OSS1 does not support all operating systems

775588 Linux: /tmp directory filled

757408 Return codes from Runtime.exec() not available in Java

750884 End of Maintenance by SuSE for SLES 7

597415 Logical volume manager (LVM) on Linux

731580 J2EE Engine doesn't stop after conn. problem with Msg Server

706071 Linux: Memory in tmpfs is not released correctly

638996 NFS mounted directories and saposcol

564874 SAP on Linux: Use on Foster NUMA hardware

639097 PREPARE on 46C SR2 termination because C++ is not installed

502237 INST: 4.6B R/3 Inst. on Linux (glibc 2.2.2)

447029 Linux: Sorting problems in Asian character sets

553309 Linux kernel 2.4.16: Work process ends w/ signal 7 (SIGBUS)

534704 Linux: NFS problems on SuSE SLES7

396202 Use of the SAP Application Server on Linux kernel 2.4

491094 Linux Kernel 2.4.7: host shutdowns become more frequent

397521 SAP Software Installation: not enough swap space

195276 Linux: Starting the program using Remote Shell

359566 Linux: Bus error

304378 Installtn LINUX: Connect terminates - SQL-952

153641 Swap space requirement for R/3 64-bit kernel

159280 RZ10: Check of the start profile

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