IBM Power Virtual Server for SAP HANA Solutions

Summary

This repository contains deployable architecture solutions that help in deploying Power Virtual Server for SAP HANA solutions. The solutions are available in the IBM Cloud Catalog and can also be deployed without the catalog, except for a few solutions.

IBM catalog solutions that require a Schematics workspace ID of Power Virtual Server with VPC landing zone

1. IBM catalog PowerVS SAP Ready variation
   • Creates and configures one HANA instance, zero to several NetWeaver instances, and one optional ShareFS with RHEL or SLES OS distribution. Creates a private subnet for SAP communication for the entire landscape.
   • Optionally configures OS network management services (NTP, NFS, and DNS services) using Ansible Galaxy Collection from IBM: power_linux_sap
   • Additionally tunes the instances according to SAP's best practices, which are fully ready for hosting SAP applications.
2. IBM catalog PowerVS S/4HANA or BW/4HANA variation
   • Creates and configures one HANA instance, one NetWeaver instance, and one optional ShareFS with RHEL OS distribution. Creates a private subnet for SAP communication for the entire landscape.
   • Optionally configures OS network management services (NTP, NFS, and DNS services) using Ansible Galaxy Collection from IBM: power_linux_sap
   • Tunes the instances according to SAP's best practices.
   • Downloads user-provided preloaded SAP Installation binaries from IBM Cloud Object Storage Bucket.
   • Installs and configures SAP applications (SAP HANA DB, SAP S4/HANA, SAP BW4/HANA) using RHEL System Roles: sap_hana_install, sap_swpm,sap_general_preconfigure, sap_hana_preconfigure, sap_netweaver_preconfigure

Solutions independent of IBM Cloud prerequisite Schematics workspace ID:

1. PowerVS SAP Ready variation
   • Creates and configures one HANA instance, zero to several NetWeaver instances and one optional ShareFS with RHEL or SLES OS distribution. Creates a private subnet for SAP communication for the entire landscape
   • Optionally configures OS network management services (NTP, NFS, and DNS services) using Ansible Galaxy collection from IBM
   • Additionally tunes the instances according to SAP's best practices, which is fully ready for hosting SAP applications.
2. End-to-End Solution
   • Creates a Power Virtual Server with vpc landing zone which creates a VPC Infrastructure and PowerVS infrastructure. Installs and configures the Squid Proxy, DNS Forwarder, NTP forwarder, and NFS as a service on hosts, and sets the host as the server for the NTP, SQUID proxy and DNS services by using Ansible Galaxy Collection from IBM: power_linux_sap
   • Creates and configures one HANA instance, zero to several NetWeaver instances, and one optional ShareFS with RHEL or SLES OS distribution. Creates a private subnet for SAP communication for the entire landscape.
   • Optionally configures OS network management services (NTP, NFS, and DNS services) using Ansible Galaxy Collection from IBM: power_linux_sap
   • Additionally tunes the instances according to SAP's best practices, which is fully ready for hosting SAP applications.

Reference architectures

• IBM catalog PowerVS SAP Ready variation
• IBM catalog PowerVS SAP S/4HANA or BW/4HANA variation
• Power Virtual Server with vpc landing zone

Solutions

Variation	Available on IBM Catalog	Requires Schematics Workspace ID	Creates PowerVS with VPC landing zone	Creates PowerVS HANA Instance	Creates PowerVS NW Instances	Performs PowerVS OS Config	Performs PowerVS SAP Tuning	Install SAP software
IBM catalog PowerVS SAP Ready	✔️	✔️	N/A	1	0 to N	✔️	✔️	N/A
IBM catalog SAP S/4HANA or BW/4HANA variation	✔️	✔️	N/A	1	1	✔️	✔️	✔️
PowerVS SAP Ready	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	0 to N	✔️	✔️	N/A
End-to-End	N/A	N/A	✔️	1	0 to N	✔️	✔️	N/A

Required IAM access policies

You need the following permissions to run this module.

• Account Management
  • Resource Group service
    • Viewer platform access
  • IAM Services
    • Workspace for Power Systems Virtual Server service
    • Power Systems Virtual Server service
      • Editor platform access
    • VPC Infrastructure Services service
      • Editor platform access
    • Transit Gateway service
      • Editor platform access
    • Direct Link service
      • Editor platform access

Contributing

You can report issues and request features for this module in GitHub issues in the module repository. See Report an issue or request a feature.

To set up your local development environment, see Local development setup in the project documentation.