Chapter 4. SAP Automation and Performance
4.1. RHEL System Roles for SAP
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles for SAP, provided exclusively with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions subscription, removes human error from complex and repetitive SAP configuration tasks, such as configuration of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system for installation of SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA or SAP NetWeaver software.
Customers can use RHEL System Roles for SAP to enforce SAP best practices for configuration and setup of both SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA deployments on RHEL 9, install SAP HANA scale-up and scale-out, and configure a 2-node Pacemaker cluster for managing HANA Scale-Up System Replication.
Additional resources
- For more information, see Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles for SAP.
4.2. Tuned
To ensure that RHEL is configured appropriately to best support SAP workloads, the RHEL for SAP Solutions provides tuned profiles sap and sap-hana, which contain many of the SAP best practices and some additional recommended configuration settings.
Additional resources
- For more information, see SAP note 3108302.
4.3. Compatibility libraries
RHEL for SAP Solutions provides additional GCC runtime compatibility libraries required by newer SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA and SAP HANA releases when necessary. RHEL 9 is GCC11 compatible, so no compat-sap-c++ package is required when installing SAP software which has been built with GCC11 or lower.
Additional resources
- For more information, see SAP note 3057467.
4.4. Smart Management
The RHEL subscription includes the Smart Management Add-On to provide easy management and updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems by using Red Hat Satellite Server.
