Description

SUSE Best Practices around KVM, especially for SAP workloads. Early Google presentation already made from various customer projects and SUSE sources.

Goals

Complete presentation we can reuse in SUSE Consulting projects

Resources

KVM (virt-manager) images

SUSE/SAP/KVM Best Practices

  • https://documentation.suse.com/en-us/sles/15-SP6/single-html/SLES-virtualization/
  • SAP Note 1522993 - "Linux: SAP on SUSE KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine" && 2284516 - SAP HANA virtualized on SUSE Linux Enterprise hypervisors https://me.sap.com/notes/2284516
  • SUSECon24: [TUTORIAL-1253] Virtualizing SAP workloads with SUSE KVM || https://youtu.be/PTkpRVpX2PM
  • SUSE Best Practices for SAP HANA on KVM - https://documentation.suse.com/sbp/sap-15/html/SBP-SLES4SAP-HANAonKVM-SLES15SP4/index.html

Looking for hackers with the skills:

kvm livemigration bestpractices sles4sap sles virtualization

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Hack Week 24

Activity

  • 11 months ago: roseswe started this project.
  • 11 months ago: t.huynh liked this project.
  • 11 months ago: dmkatsoli liked this project.
  • 12 months ago: roseswe added keyword "sles" to this project.
  • 12 months ago: roseswe added keyword "virtualization" to this project.
  • 12 months ago: roseswe added keyword "sles4sap" to this project.
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  • about 1 year ago: roseswe added keyword "kvm" to this project.
  • about 1 year ago: roseswe added keyword "livemigration" to this project.
  • about 1 year ago: roseswe added keyword "bestpractices" to this project.
  • about 1 year ago: roseswe originated this project.

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