Running Solution Manager 7 on VMware

[Former Member]

We are about to launch a major hardware upgrade for our SAP systems.

We will be going from R/3 Enterprise 4.7 x200 32 bit to 64 bit. I am

currently running Solution Manager 3.2 on an system that doesn't heve

enough resources to upgrade to SolMan 7.

I have a test machine set up in our VMware environment that is running

Windows 2003 64 bit. Can I install Solution Manager 7 on a virtual

machine? Right now my biggest concern is being able to utilized the

Maintenance Optimizer to assit with our hardware upgrade. Another

reason I want the OPtimizer is so I can download the 64 bit

installation and components.

If it isn't possible to run SolMan 7 on a virtual machine then where

can I get the 64 bit installation components?

[markus_doehr2]

Can I install Solution Manager 7 on a virtual machine?

For VMWare on ESX Server is supported. All others are not.

Check https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/virtualization.

Also not all machines are supported.

The second question is: Which database do you use?

All database but Oracle are supported. If you use Oracle you won´t get support in case of problems, Oracle does not allow running production (which SolMan is considered) installation on any type of virtualization (as of now).

Yes - you can install SolMan on 64bit - you can get the DVDs at the usual places

http://service.sap.com/installations

Be aware that you also need a 64bit Java

Markus