SAP on HP-UX Best Practices - Contents

Goal of the "SAP on HP-UX Best Practices" guide: 

• The goal of this document is to provide a central access point for SAP Notes, White Papers and other useful documentation relevant to running SAP on the HP-UX Platform. 
• The documentation being referred to is primarily of a technical nature intended to provide information on available HP-UX based solutions which are of relevance in SAP scenarios. 
• The document is structured in sections based on SAP topic area, see the contents for details.

Contents

SAP on HP-UX Best Practices - Part 1

• General Information 
  • Useful SAP information sources 
  • Useful HP-UX Information sources on hp.com 
  • HP/SAP Alliance

• Product availability 
  • Which SAP software is supported on HP-UX? 
  • SAP Support of "ARIES" (PA-RISC emulation) on HP-UX Itanium/IA64 
  • HP-UX Operating System and Server support 
  • SAP support for HP Servers based on Intel Itanium "Tukwila" processors

• Migration 
  • General SAP Migration Information 
  • SAP Migration Solutions and Services from HP 
  • PA-RISC to Itanium 
  • Other Platform to HP-UX

• High-Availability 
  • Serviceguard 
  • Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP) 
  • High-Availability combined with dynamic resource management 
  • High-Availability and HPVM

• Storage 
  • HP Storage White Papers for SAP 
  • SAP System Copy using HP Storage technologies 
  • Backup

SAP on HP-UX Best Practices - Part 2

• Configuring HP-UX for SAP Applications 
  • HP-UX OS Patches 
  • Recommended HP-UX Kernel tunables/parameters 
  • Swap/Paging space 
  • Filesystems configuration 
  • Database configuration 
  • Java 
  • saposcol

• Performance 
  • Sizing 
  • Memory Usage (What is using all of the memory?) 
  • Hyperthreading 
  • Performance Tips 
  • Making the most of NUMA

SAP on HP-UX Best Practices - Part 3

• Consolidation 
  • SAP Configuration considerations when consolidating 
  • SAP Consolidation approaches 
  • HP Converged Infrastructure  
  • HP-UX Servers 
  • HP-UX Virtualization Technologies 
  • HP-UX Dynamic Resource Management 
  • Resource Consumption and Planning Tools