SAP Business one 9.x Entry level Dell installation TDI

[Former Member]

We are taking a TDI approach for installing SAP HANA Business one ERP 9.2 in production on Entry level server Dell R730 ( processor is correct Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3).

But we want to use VMware 5.5 or 6 in production. In production we will have just 1 VM on the server with committed resources. The article that tells us  this is achievable is this http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57924.

For Testing purposes we had existing Dell R720 (also supported hardware for SAP Hana Intel Xeon E5-26xx v2) so we installed Vmware Esxi 6 using trial 60 days version of  SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications 11 SP4 for x86_64 from this link

(https://www.suse.com/eval/download?event_id=SGAPSAP18362&event_name=SLES+for+SAP+SP4+Program+-+AMD64...).

But when we do the install of Suse we have issues as you can see from these 2 images http://imgur.com/a/Y3PId (please note there are 2 images) or attached images.

Will be glad if someone can guide us what are we doing wrong.

Also we have tried to install with this image http://www.suse.com/slesb1hana and same  issue. we have heard that slesb1hana is not supported on vmware on suse forum but this article looks like says its supported http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57924. See section 3 Virtual Disk Configuration.

Happy to discuss further.

regards,

tri

[Former Member]

we have got suse image working with both slesb1hana image and SLES for SAP 11.4 in Vmware 6.

You have to do below steps so installer can detect hardware correctly. Steps taken from

After  creating the VM that you will run for HANA take the following steps:

• Shutdown the VM
• Go to vSphere Center -> Select your VM -> Edit Settings -> VM Options -> Advanced -> Configuration Parameters -> Edit Configuration -> Add Row
• Enter new parameter "Smbios.reflectHost" with value
  "TRUE"
• Start the VM

This will pass the real vendor/model to the VM BIOS, and if it's a supported vendor/model, the installer will detect it properly.