Red Hat RHEL6 certification for SAP Products

Editor's note: RedHat RHEL6 has been released for 10 months, but many enterprise applications have not yet been certified on RHEL6, including Oracle databases. Of course, RedHat has been working on this. This week, RedHat announced that RHEL6 has officially provided certification to SAP products, which means that the correct deployment of SAP products on RHEL6 will not result in any problems affecting compatibility or hindering the authentication process. Porting a variety of enterprise applications from Unix to RHEL has always been an important strategy of RedHat. The following is the full text: Editor's note: The Red Hat RHEL 6 has been released for 10 months, but many enterprise applications have not yet been certified on RHEL 6, including Oracle databases. Of course, RedHat has been working on this. This week, RedHat announced that RHEL 6 has officially provided certification to SAP products, which means that the correct deployment of SAP products on RHEL 6 will not result in any problems affecting compatibility or hindering the authentication process. Porting a variety of enterprise applications from Unix to RHEL has always been an important strategy of RedHat. The full text is as follows:

Users who wish to deploy SAP applications on Linux systems are blessed, and now New choices are coming soon. RedHat announced today that its product Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) operating system platform willProvide necessary certifications to SAP Products.

RHEL 6 is the latest version of Red Hat flagship Linux platform. It was first published in May.SAP applications have been certified in previous Red Hat releases, including the previous RHEL 5.

Even though RHEL 6 has been available for more than 10 months, the process of obtaining authentication from SAP still needs to be explored.

"Companies like SAP have their own pace of operation, so they will choose the best time on their schedule to start processing certification work, jim Toten, general manager and vice president of platform business at RedHat, said in an interview with InternetNews.com. "It doesn't mean that they have spent ten months on the entire authentication process. In fact, SAP just arranged the most appropriate time period on their schedule, and will be invested in the authentication process."

The RHEL 6 release provides smoother performance optimization than the old version, and supports the latest server hardware. Toten adds that enterprise users usually deploy RHEL 6 as an important part of their internal hardware updates. He also pointed out that for SAP applications, RHEL 6 has not brought any major changes that may compromise compatibility or impede the authentication process.

From the deployment perspective,RedHat is switching its SAP application from Unix to RHEL.As an important means to effectively reduce enterprise procurement costs.

"The modern x86 architecture is organically integrated with the kernel enhancement elements we have placed in RHEL 6 to help guide migration from Unix; SAP's RHEL certification is also a key step, "Toten said.

RedHat is not the only Linux supply company that uses SAP certification solutions.Its rival SUSE Linux has shown the same selling point.The SUSE Linux solution is known as the sap sles (SUSE Linux enterprise-level server). This message was published earlier this year.

Despite the strategic partnership between SAP and SUSE Linux, RedHat does not care.

"Based on the gap between SUSE and our market share, we can fully believe that we are the number one Linux platform infrastructure provider in the world so far," Toten said.

Speaking of SAP applications, Toten believes that Redhat has provided customers with a special RHEL Inventory Unit. He said that there is a principle for the RHEL version of SAP, that is, always adhere to the correct components necessary for the system to introduce SAP operations in a more convenient way. RedHat and SAP also have technical support partnerships. This partnership was developed from RHEL's Integrated Support System for SAP customers in May this year.

Although RedHat and SAP are boomingRHEL's SAP software package still uses the same Linux kernel version as normal..

"We haven't created any special types of kernels for different types of workloads, because the kernel should be specially adjusted for the hardware it runs on," Toten said. "Collaboration with SAP doesn't mean we have to change the kernel, but by ensuring that the stack is optimized in an appropriate way to provide our customers with an excellent user experience ."