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Re: Sizing for SAP ECC6.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (riggor9999)
Wed Dec 26 07:28:57 2012
To: sapr3-news@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:27:02 -0500
From: riggor9999 <riggor9999@nospamyahoo.com>
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On 12/26/2012 4:39 AM, kanokwana@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks riggor9999.
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> Could you recommend me the minimum hardware requirement for the server?
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> Thank you.
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> On Monday, December 24, 2012 11:42:29 PM UTC+7, riggor9999 wrote:
>> On 12/23/2012 10:33 PM, kanokwana@gmail.com wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
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>>> My faculty is going to set up a laboratory for students to learn BI, ERP from SAP software.
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>>> I am writing system requirement and sizing for SAP ECC 6.00 servers in the computer lab.
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>>> There will be 50-60 students in the lab. But I don't know how many and what server I should provide in the lab.
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>>> I supposed there will have 1 Application server, 1 database server, 1 DEV Server. Am I right?
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>>> Do I need QAS Server ?
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>>> May I have your suggestion?
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>>> Thank you.
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>> The answer of course is .... "it depends"
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>> If it is technical basis training - that is a different answer versus
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>> end user application training.
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>> In a typical company - you have a dev, qas and prod environment.
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>> Additionally there may be a sandbox and a training environment.
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>> Each of those environments will be made of an application "server" and a
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>> database "server". These are software layers that may all live on one
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>> physical server, or may have more than one application server.
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>> In your case - at a minimum - you would have one physical server that is
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>> running an application and database "servers" on the same box for ERP,
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>> and the same for BI.
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>> Memory, CPU and disk sizing will again depend. Remember that training
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>> environments are the worst. You will have 50 people hitting enter at
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>> the same time, doing the exact same thing / same config / same
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>> exercises, etc. ... lots of disk, network, cpu contention for the same
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>> resources / programs / data. That is not a real work scenario.
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>> You have some homework ahead of you ...
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Have you bought the software yet? SAP can help you with the config that
is best for you / your needs.
Windows? Linux? who's hardware? It all depends. Also the pcs / laptops /
browsers / java all matter as well.
You can download the manuals that list the minimum requirements - but I
would not go with the minimum - as that is just enough to get the system
up and running with minimum users.
SAP also makes IDES systems - International Demo and Education Systems -
pre-configured sample config and pre-populated sample data for training
purposes.
Things to consider ... Who is going to install the SW? Who is going to
maintain the systems? Backup? Updates? Patches? Refresh after each
training class?
You really need to talk to your SAP SW rep. This is not going to be a
trivial task.
Also - if you plan to do to config changes in DEV / QAS and transport
them to PRD (real world scenario)- you will need at least two ERP and
two BI systems.
Then you have to setup "golden" clients / "golden" data / "golden" users
that are used to refresh the training clients after each class.
As I said - you have some homework ahead of you ... you are not going to
get the answers here or on the internet.
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