Solaris for SAP

Solaris is the most sophisticated Operating System for SAP. Okay, maybe this sounds a bit like marketing. But Solaris has many cool features, enabling you to run your ERP systems smooth and reliable.

In this section we cover all topics concerning basic Solaris administration, basic installation and running of SAP on Solaris and some hints to help you. In a special section we cover Solaris x86 topics.



  • Providing multiple boot environments - Sometimes it's good to have more than only one boot environment, at least as a fall back environment. This is an example how to realize such environments using Solaris 10 ZFS.
  • cross-linked from Basic SAP as lots of aspects listed here are particularly true for Solaris x64: 10 Good Reasons to run SAP on Solaris - Why should I run my mission critical SAP application on Sun Solaris ? Find 10 very good reasons here ...
  • Maintaining Solaris based SAP Server with Live Upgrade and Update On Attach - This Sun BluePrints™ article explains how to use Solaris Live Upgrade and the Solaris update on attach feature, with Solaris Zones, Solaris Cluster, and the ZFS™ file system for software maintenance in general and the application of operating system patches in particular. Its a very important BluePrint to create a SAP Minimizing Downtime Conzept.

Coming soon:

  • SAP and OS minimization - a pragmatic/programmatic approach to OS minimization - how to determine what software packages are needed as the bare minimum to run SAP on Solaris (late July)
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