Question Re: Virtual Environment Support in Technology Q&A

Virtual Environment Support

justin_willey — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:05:37 GMT

A few years ago Jeff provided these links to SAP's policies on support of virtual environments. Are there up-to-date equivalent statements available?

For Sybase, an SAP Company's support statement on virtual environments, see: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1032794#q6

For SAP's support statement on generic virtual environments, see: https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1492000

For SAP's support statement on public cloud environments, see: https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1380654

Many thanks

Re: Virtual Environment Support

VolkerBarth — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:55:37 GMT

Have you noticed that topic within the v17 documentation:

http://dcx.sap.com/index.html#sqla170/en/html/8155387d6ce21014937df18c3511be8f.html

Re: Virtual Environment Support

justin_willey — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:17:51 GMT

Thank you Volker I hadn't seen that. The statement re performance is helpful when trying to persuade clients that virtualisation doesn't give you something for nothing.

Re: Virtual Environment Support

Breck_Carter — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:53:40 GMT

> The statement re performance

For those (like me) too lazy to follow links:

SQL Anywhere is supported on virtual machines such as VMWare, Xen, and MS Virtual Server/Windows Server Virtualization with some restrictions:
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3. The extent of support does not cover performance. SAP does not guarantee the performance of SQL Anywhere products running on virtual machines.

In the real world, that is often unexpected news for sysadmins.

Re: Virtual Environment Support

Breck_Carter — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:03:54 GMT

For those who do follow links here's one to an early story about sysadmins.