Azure Instance Metadata Service and SAP
In the below post, we will explore the Azure Instance Metadata service and how we can make use of the service when deploying our SAP landscape.What is the Azure Instance Metadata Service?The Azure...
View ArticleSAP JVM and the Oracle Java SE 8 Licensing Confusion
What is the issue for users of Oracle Java SE 8 ?In January 2018, Oracle released a statement that it was extending the end-of-life for Oracle Java SE 8 updates to "at least" January 2019.With no...
View ArticleSAP Netweaver AS Java 7.50 End of Maintenance
If you're a green-field or brown-field SAP customer and you will be deploying on-premise, you may well have a capability requirement to deploy Adobe Document Services for your SAP estate.This is...
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Chrome 72 "bug" workaround for Power Notes Searcher
A recent Chrome experimental feature delivered in Chrome 72 is affecting the functionality of Chrome Extensions where the extension utilises some of the Chrome APIs to trigger actions depending on web...
View ArticleSUSE Cloud-Netconfig and Azure VMs - Dynamic Network Configuration
What is SUSE Cloud-Netconfig:Within the SUSE SLES 12 (and OpenSUSE) operating system, lies a piece of functionality called Cloud-Netconfig.It is provided as part of the System/Management group of...
View ArticleWhat was at SAP Inside Track Maidenhead 15/03/19
On Friday 15th, I went to the SAP Inside Track event at SAP Objects House in Maidenhead.The SAP Inside Track is a SAP community organised event showcasing some of the latest SAP thinking and...
View ArticleHANA 2.0 - Calc View - SAP DBTech JDBC 2048 Column Store Error
Scenario: During DB access of a HANA 2.0 SPS3 Calculation View from S/4HANA ABAP stack (via ABAP) or even directly in HANA Studio (via "Raw Data"), an error is displayed in a short dump or on screen...
View ArticleLocking HANA Database Users During Maintenance
Running SAP S/4HANA means there are now more direct HANA DB accesses through a variety of Analytics tools, development tools and external reporting systems.This can present a problem when it comes to...
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SAP ABAP Kernel SNAPSHOTS
If you haven’t already seen it, quite some time ago I wrote a brief blog post on the Flight Recorder for the NW AS Java stack.Many years later, I’ve still very rarely seen a company use the flight...
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CORS in a SAP Netweaver Landscape
In this brief article I'm going to try to simplify and articulate what Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is, how it works and how in an SAP environment (we use Fiori in our example) we can get...
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Complications of using SAP ASE 16.0 in a HADR pair plus DR node Setup
Firstly, we need to clarify that HADR in SAP ASE speak, is the SAP ASE feature-set name for a HA or DR setup consisting of 2 SAP ASE database instances with a defined replication mode.The pair can be...
View ArticleHowTo: Find the Datacentre Region and Physical Host of your Azure VM
On a Linux VM in Azure, as any Linux user, you can use the following to see the name of the physical host on which your VM is running:awk -F 'H''{ sub(/ostName/,"",$2); print $2 }'...
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HowTo: Find the Datacentre Region and Physical Host of your Azure Windows VM
The previous blog post shows how to do this for a Linux VM.On a Windows VM in Azure, as any Windows user with access to the registry, you can use the following to see the name of the physical host on...
View ArticleStaying on-top of SAP Kernel Patches
Staying on top of patching & maintenance in a large SAP landscape can be a daunting and exhausting task.The BASIS team need to understand every nook & cranny of software installed in the...
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Making saptune Actually Work & Patching to v2
Having recently spent some time analysing the performance of a HANA database system, I got down to the depths of Linux device I/O performance on an Azure hosted VM.There was no reason to suspect any...
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Listing Azure VM DataDisks and Cache Settings Using Azure Portal JMESPATH & Bash
As part of a SAP HANA deployment, there are a set of recommendations around the Azure VM disk caching settings and the use of the Azure VM WriteAccelerator.These features should be applied to the SAP...
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Power Notes Searcher Extension - On Edge
It's official, Power Notes Searcher, the SAP note management extension for Google Chrome, is now available for Microsoft Edge!Microsoft have released the latest version of their Edge browser on January...
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How an Azure hosted SAP LaMa Controlled SAP System Starts Up
We all know how this works in the old “pre-cloud” world.To start a SAP system on a physical server which is currently shutdown, you would:1, Power on the physical host (through whatever means, ILO or a...
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Add Second IP to Loopback for SAP ASCS on SUSE Linux 12 in Azure
Back in 2018, I helped design a Highly Available architecture for the SAP Netweaver ASCS (contains the message server and enqueue server).This was to be implemented on SUSE Linux 12 in the Microsoft...
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With SAP LaMa you can auto-save on your Azure Managed Disk Costs
By now, most people know that after you’ve moved your SAP landscape to the cloud, you could save hosting costs by shutting down SAP system VMs when they are expected to not be used.(There are caveats...
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