By: Sabine Soellheim

January 11, 2023 3:30 pm

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SAP Security: 5 Critical Considerations to Protect Your Infrastructure

Your SAP infrastructure hosts applications and processes that are critically important to your business operations. If it goes down, or your data is compromised in a cyberattack, you’ll experience unexpected costs and real operational risks. Cybercriminals know SAP is business-critical, which makes it a prime target for cyberthreats of all kinds. Zero-day attacks that […]

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By: Fabian Herschel

October 20, 2022 3:14 pm

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Emergency Braking for SAP HANA Dying Indexserver

In some cases the SAP HANA indexserver is crashing and it takes very long for the service to fail completely. This is the reason why SAP HANA delays to report this failure towards the HA cluster. Obviously in such cases it is extremely helpful to have an emergency braking. This blog article describes why the […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

October 11, 2022 4:42 pm

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SAP HANA Cluster – automated OS patching with SUSE Manager and Salt states

The following article has been contributed by Bo Jin, Sales Engineer at SUSE and Linux Consultant.     Challenge and motivation SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is not just a great product for running SAP workloads. SUSE also provides best practice guides for building up reliable SAP HANA SR high availability […]

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By: Sabine Soellheim

October 7, 2022 6:58 am

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Understanding the Benefits and Cost Savings of the SUSE and Intel Server Platform for SAP Environments

Many enterprises rearchitect their infrastructure and processes for SAP S/4HANA, seeking opportunities to reduce costs, eliminate downtime and realize faster time-to-value. A study was conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of SUSE and Intel®, and published in August 2022. “The Total Economic ImpactTM Of SUSE Solutions For SAP Environments Powered by Intel Technology” presents […]

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By: lpinne

June 8, 2022 9:20 am

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SUSE HA for SAP HANA scale-up cost-optimized improved

Starting with version 0.160.1 the SAPHanaSR package ships an HADR provider hook script for automating changes in memory limits and table preload on fail-over. This simplifies the SAP HANA scale-up cost-optimized scenario. [caption id="attachment_92256" align="alignnone" width="300"] Picture: SAP HANA scale-up cost-optimized[/caption] In this blog article you will learn what […]

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By: Helen Tang

May 31, 2022 5:26 pm

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Are You Ready for Some Time Travel?

Hey you, yes you there, step right up! I can spot a Sci-Fi fan a mile away! Was “Back to the Future” one of your favorite movies growing up? If so, then you are in for a real treat! SUSECON is launching in just a week, and this year the theme is Time Travel! […]

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By: Fabian Herschel

December 9, 2021 2:44 pm

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First certified simple-mount cluster ever!

End of January 2019 we have achieved a new milestone for our SLES for SAP Applications cluster solutions. We passed the SAP certification named “SAP S/4-HA-CLU 1.0” as the first cluster vendor. Now, end of November 2021, we are again the first vendor with a certification using the simple-mount cluster architecture. We have […]

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By: Christian Holsing

December 9, 2021 2:42 pm

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Project Trento reaches Ramp-Up phase

Today we are pleased to announce that SUSEs project Trento is reaching the Ramp-Up phase (limited availability) in December where we make the solution available to customers in a staged approach. If you are interested in participating in the Ramp-Up phase and use SUSE Linux Enterprise server for SAP applications, please reach out to trento-project@suse.[…]

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By: Thomas Schlosser

September 8, 2021 9:26 am

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Discover your cluster logfiles – A journey into the past.

Log files are very useful when it comes to situations where the root cause of an event has to be investigated. But analyzing logs does not only mean looking for errors in the system. There are also a lot of other informations in most of the log files. The pacemaker log file is a perfect […]

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