The last two weeks have been crazy. Tons of work and projects, spending time with people I won’t see in the next year, finishing all the paperwork… And in the latest week I moved to Houston with my wife after being waiting for more than one year. So unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to […]
Category: Linux
Interesting times for SAP on Linux
Long time since the last time I wrote an entry! Lot of interesting things happened during this time (SAP TechEd Vegas & Barcelona for example) but today I want to write about Linux in the SAP ecosystem. We have two news quite interesting that will represent a huge impact for those of you who use […]
Detailed system information on Linux with sapsysinfo
You probably are familiar with this topic if you had a problem related to a SAP system running on Linux operating system. SAP released long time ago the SAP Note 618104 – “sapsysinfo” – Compiling system information on Linux. This SAP note contains a script for Linux named sapsysinfo that gather a lot of information of the […]
Tuning SAP Applications for SLES with SAPTUNE
If you have installed any SAP product before and if you did it right you probably read some documents and SAP Notes before starting. Many of those SAP Notes are related to OS and DB tuning. I can’t stress hard enough how important is to read the available documents before starting a system installation. Lot […]
SAP Performance 101: Can’t wait forever
I would like to share this case to show you how a bad planning during the instance configuration brings problems sooner or later. I really like this example because it perfectly shows how doing things in a proper way in the beginning will avoid a lot of headaches in the future. That being said, come […]
Stack Clash critical vulnerability for *NIX OS
Some days ago a new vulnerability related to Stack Clash was discovered for *NIX OS (Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris). This kind of vulnerability was already know on 2005 and 2010 and it was patched and gone for a while. The vulnerability was discovered by security researches from Qualys and they released an article explaining […]
Important SAP Notes about Virtualization
Quick update because I don’t have so much time available lately, days pass and it is getting difficult to have some time to write a new post. SAP decided to send some information to my email when downloading or consulting specific information from Support Portal. I leave you some information related virtualization of SAP systems […]
MSSQL Server on Linux: A New Hope
2016 will be remember as the year of Trump’s victory, Brexit and Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux. I was feeling a mix between skeptical and excited the first time I read about MSSQL Server on Linux but after reading a bit I have to say I’m quite surprised of what Microsoft have achieved. The […]
PowerShell and SQL Server relased on Linux
The world is going crazy: Trump running for president, the Leicester winning the Premier League and now Microsoft releasing its products for Linux! Yes, you read it right. Microsoft has released and will released some of its product for Linux during this year. Do you love SQL Server but you hate Windows Server? No problem! […]