SAP on Linux Suse -vs- Oracle Linux -vs- Linux Red Hat

[#1]

Hello there,

We are planning on replatforming our ECC and BW SAP environments based on some version of Linux.  We are running Oracle on the backend.

I am curious if anyone out there would know why we might use Linux Suse over Oracle Linux and vice-versa.  Is there a technical argument to be made for using Linux Red Hat above all else?

Are the technical advantages for one over the other?  Are more SAP shops using one more than the other?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated

[Former Member]

If you will check PAM supported versions for Linux are only SuSe and RHEL.

Regards

Amit Padmawar

[Former Member]

Oracle Linux is also supported.  Any other ideas?

Thanks

[Former Member]

i think it depends on how one looks at it. we have db6 as a database so oracle linux is not an option. I am sure you can find benchmarks specific to each o.s

Check out this sap note which has information regarding all the linux distributions supported by SAP.

Note 171356 - SAP software on Linux: Essential information

Regards

Amit Padmawar

[Former Member]

Checkout this document too http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8760 

It has a good collection of SAP notes.

Regards

Amit Padmawar

[martin_E]

1) That note isn't strictly accurate; for example, it doesn't mention that SUSE Linux is the only supported OS for running SAP on Amazon instances

2) There is little practical difference between Novell SUSE and OpenSUSE (and RedHat and CentOS have similar relationship to each other), except that Novell and RedHat will provide vendor support for the OS if you pay for it.  If you are going Linux so you don't have to pay for vendor support, it's worth looking at OpenSUSE (fully open source / GPL compliant version of Novell SUSE) or CentOS (a fully open source / GPL compliant RedHat)

3) SUSE may be good to standardize on, for when your company goes HANA ?

hth

[joe_ledesma]

Good point regarding HANA.

I read the materials from a HANA hands-on class from a previous TechEd on administering the HANA appliance and the task to update the HANA database software version involved being in the shell and running commands so you would be administering SAP on Linux in addition to administering the SLES itself. (The 'appliance' label given to HANA applies apparently more to the pre-configuration aspect not as much to the ongoing operation.)