SAP R/3 on Oracle / Solaris / ZFS

[Former Member]

Hello,

My unix administator is planning on upgrading to a new OS environment to Solaris 10 with ZFS. We currently run SAP R/3 4.6C kernel / Oracle 9i on Solaris release 5.8 and I would like to know what would be the path to take from here. Does SAP R/3 4.6C or even 4.7 Support ZFS and what about Running Oracle 10g datafiles on a ZFS system for the SAP Database.

Any support is appreciated,

Arun

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

Oracle doesn't certify any more filesystems or certain Storage Systems (see Oracle Metalink 403202.1 - Zeta File System (Zfs) On Solaris 10 Certified/Supported By Oracle) but it's supported to run on them

We run several databases (Oracle and non-Oracle) on ZFS - and combined with zones it's GREAT to consolidate systems.

Check http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris10/zfs_veritas.pdf for a comparison between VXFS and ZFS.

The SAP system itself is agnostic about the underlying filesystem.

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Markus

[former_member204746]

check with Oarcle, if they support it, SAP will support it too.