SLD should be attached to which WAS?

[Former Member]

We are testing SLD with and without an XI configuration in a test landscape. Would appreciate if someone can guide us to SAP's recomendation or their own experience about where to attach SLD to. Our choices are SLD on it's own WAS if we are not doing XI for the first go round. SLD on XI WAS or SLD on R/3 WAS.

As far as number of SLDS in a landscape...reading other messages it looks like the best way is to go with one DEV/QA and one production SLD. HA on PRD SLD is also recomended. We are using SLD on WAS 6.40, ECC5 and EP 6 on 6.40

Thanks,

Jimmy

[Former Member]

Hi James,

From my experience, the location of SLD depends on the number of systems you have in your landscape that will use it actively.

You should install it on a system that is almost up and running nearly everytime and doesn't requires restart frequently.

If you have a lot of systems, I will suggest have it on a seperate WAS. Reason being if you have to restart your XI server or R/3 server everytime you bring down SLD as well which will impact all other systems that use this SLD.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Shubham