Running SAP on Microsoft Virtual Servers

[Former Member]

Is anyone running SAP on Microsoft Virtual Servers? If so, what has been your experience with this? We are installing NetWeaver 2004s on three virtual servers (running on the same Physical Windows server). We are using the Microsoft Virtual Server software (not VM Ware).

Thanks in advance for any information.

[former_member433984]

Hello Mark,

for test purposes it should be OK.

But you will be disappointed with performance, especially disks IO.

In any case for productive systems it is not supported. QA, DEV are also under question - it depends on workload you will generate on the system.

If you decide to use it for tests, better to use SCSI drives, but not IDE.

Best regards

[fidel_vales]

Hello,

Check also

There it indicates than only VmWare ESX 3.0 is supported on Windows 64.

it also refers to the note mentioned by Markus and note 1056052

[markus_doehr2]

Check Note 674851 - Virtualization on Windows:

[...]

VMware, GSX Server, VMware workstation, Microsoft Virtual Server

Due to their restriction to 32-bit, single CPU and host/guest operation, these virtualization products are not suitable for productive SAP applications.

It may be advisable to use one of these products to operate non-production systems (demo systems, test systems, development systems and so on).

[...]

I would not use Microsoft Virtual Server for productive installations, additionally, depending on the database used, it may or may not supported by the database vendor and thus also may or may not supported by SAP.

In worst case you will need to reinstall the application on a non-virtualized environment and reproduce a problem there before SAP support will accept the problem.

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Markus