SAP LVM

1. What is SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM)?
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SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software is a management tool that enables the
SAP basis administrator to automate SAP system operations including end-to-end SAP system copy/refresh
operations
The software is shipped as an add-on to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 (Application Server Java) and is available in
two additions: Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.
Is LVM a licensed product? If yes, how does the licensing model work?
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Yes, SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software is a licensed product and the product
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is available in two editions: Standard edition and Enterprise edition.
Standard edition is available to all SAP customers with at least one active SAP application license and has
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no license cost associated with it. The customer will have to obtain a license for Standard Edition but, do not have to
incur any additional cost..
Enterprise edition is available to all SAP customers as a separately licensed product. Please contact your
SAP Account Executive or Sales Representative for further details.
Is the license model going to change with the next version of LVM ?
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No, there are currently no plans to change the license model of LVM
What is the value proposition of LVM and what are the business benefits ?
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Value Proposition
With SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software (LVM), you can simplify and automate the
management and operations of your SAP systems running on traditional, virtual or cloud infrastructures.
Business Benefits
Greater operational continuity through centralized management, visibility and control of your entire SAP
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landscape using a single console.
Reduced time, effort and cost to manage and operate your SAP systems through automation of time-
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consuming basis administration tasks.
Increased operational agility through acceleration of application lifecycle management operations and fast
response to workload fluctuations.
Does (LVM) replace SAP NetWeaver Adaptive Computing Controller (ACC)?
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No, SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software (LVM) is a new product which is
generally available for SAP customers since June 2012. The new product is positioned as a management tool for
SAP basis administrators and inherits all the ACC capabilities in addition to offering more advanced automation
capabilities such as, end-to-end automation for SAP system clone/copy/refresh operations, automatic capacity
management for SAP systems, landscape reporting and landscape visualization etc.
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All customers using ACC have the option to move to the Standard Edition of LVM without paying any license
fee. The Standard Edition includes all the ACC capabilities and more. ACC 7.3 is the last release of that product and
no new feature development is planned. Customers can continue to use ACC. However, we do recommend switching
to LVM.

2. I am an existing ACC customer, how will I be supported in the future and how can I
make the switch to LVM?
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ACC customers can continue to use the product and will be supported as part of their ongoing SAP
NetWeaver support. However, we strongly recommend switching to SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization
Management (LVM) as it has taken over and continue all use cases from ACC.
Switching from ACC to LVM is really simple and straightforward. All you have to do is export your existing
ACC system configuration using export/import functionality in ACC and import it back into the LVM system using the
same export/import feature available in LVM. As a best practice, SAP recommends installing a fresh LVM system
and migrating the configuration from ACC to the new LVM system as explained above.
When will the next version of LVM be released ?
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LVM 2.0 is GA since Oct. 21, 2013
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For upcoming releases, please refer to our Roadmap presentation.
Are there any prerequisites for using LVM ?
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Yes, there are certain prerequisites for using LVM as it consists of several software components.
The LVM software itself is shipped as an add-on to SAP NetWeaver (Application Server Java) and the
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minimum requirement is SAP NetWeaver 7.30 SP03 or higher (Application Server Java – “basic” usage type). Please
check SAP Note 1527538 for further details.
Depending on the product edition that you are using (i.e. standard or enterprise edition) and the product
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functionality that you would like to use, there are certain additional components required.
The minimum dependency for managed systems is the SAP Host Agent, which must be running on each
managedhost (both SAP as well as non-SAP systems require SAP Host Agent for them to be managed via LVM).
For further information on virtualization, storage or other infrastructure dependencies, please check the collective SAP
Note 1527538.
You can find an overview of current Partner integrations with LVM 1.0 here.
You can find an overview of current Partner integrations with LVM 2.0 here.

3. If your Infrastructure is not listed in the SAP Note 1527538, please contact virtualization@sap.com for help.
How do i size my LVM installation/Is there a sizing Guide for LVM ?
We have released a sizing guide for LVM here.
You can find it at the Service Marketplace alias Sizing -> Sizing Guidelines -> SAP NetWeaver Landscape
Virtualization Management
What key functionality does LVM standard edition offer?
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Start/Stop/Relocate
Mass operations
Validations
Task planner
AS (un-)installation
Basic dashboards
Virtualization integration
Inter-system dependencies
Extensibility (custom operations/hooks/services)
Fine granular access control
What key functionality does LVM enterprise edition offer?
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All features in LVM standard edition, plus the following:
Advanced Dashboards
Reporting
Performance monitoring
System clone / copy / refresh
Automatic capacity management
Landscape visualization
For further details, please refer to slide 42 of the Roadmap presentation.
What is the relationship between SAP Solution Manager and LVM? Are there any
dependancies between these two products?
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SAP Solution Manager addresses Application Lifecycle Management for SAP systems (ALM). SAP
NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software enables running SAP systems on virtualized and cloud
infrastructures and addresses infrastructure layer complexities. In addition, SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization
Management provides additional capabilities such as a framework for automated system copy/refresh and automatic
capacity management which deal with the complexities of both the infrastructure and the applications through a single
tool.
Can I run LVM as an add-on to the SAP Solution Manager Java instance ?
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No, this is not possible. LVM runs as an add-on on top of SAP NetWeaver 7.3 (Application Server Java) and
the minimum requirement is SAP NetWeaver 7.30 SP03. Since, the latest release of SAP Solution Manager (i.e. SAP
Solution Manager 7.1) runs on an earlier release stack of the Application Server Java Furthermore, even if this

4. technical restriction is resolved in future, we would not recommend running LVM and SAP Solution Manager
instances on the same host as part of best practices. Running both of these systems in the same host may cause
performance degradation and moreover, in case of a system performance issue, it would become very difficult to
diagnose and troubleshoot the root cause.
Does LVM integrate with SAP Test Data Migration Server (TDMS) ?
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No, currently there is no standard integration available between LVM and TDMS. However, TDMS
compliments the use case of LVM and could be used in parallel to LVM. . TDMS offers data extraction of SAP
business data and data scrambling which can be executed on SAP system copies that have been produced via LVM.
Currently, we are evaluating various integration scenarios between LVM and TDMS and if something is available in
future, we will update the product roadmap and communicate the same to our customers. We are looking into
extending the SAP system copy workflow in LVM so that TDMS could be triggered as an optional step in one of the
future releases of LVM.
Can I manage and monitor non-SAP Systems with LVM? If yes, what functionality is
provided by LVM for management of non-SAP systems?
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Yes, LVM supports the management and monitoring of non-SAP systems and applications and this
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capability of LVM is called “custom services”. Technically, any application that can be detected as a service running
an operating-system can be detected and managed by LVM
LVM provides the following functionality for non-SAP systems (some examples of typical non-SAP systems
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would be middleware systems like Tibco/Biztalk, non-SAP data warehousing solutions etc.):.
Performing basic monitoring and management of non-SAP systems such as, starting or stopping a system,
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collecting basic monitoring data such as CPU usage, memory usage, running state etc.).
Performing mass-operations on non-SAP systems such as, mass-start or mass-stop).
Configure Inter-System Dependencies (ISD) between SAP and non-SAPsystems:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_lvm10enterprise/helpdata/en/4e/43582d6bd11ecfe10000000a42189b/content.htm
Does LVM support management of SAP Sybase based systems?
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Yes. It is possible to manage SAP Sybase ASE based systems with LVM 1.0 SP5 onwards - including SAP
System Copy operations. This requires the latest version of System rename. (system rename SP02 part of SAP SL
Toolset)
Does LVM support management of SAP HANA based systems?
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Yes. It is possible to perform the basic operations (start/stop/monitor) for SAP HANA systems with LVM 1.0
SP04 onwards.
What are the steps that are automated by the Post Copy Automation functionality ?
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System Refresh:
Initial Consistency Check
Check for BW system
ALE Configuration
ALE Customizing
Archiving

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Batch Jobs Configuration
Batch Server Groups
CCMS Configuration
CCMS History
Customer defined Tables
DBACOCKPIT Configuration
Operating System Commands
Cross-Client File Names/Paths
Licenses
Logon Groups
Operation Modes
Printer Config / Spool Cleanup
System Profiles
RFC Connections
Inbound qRFC
tRFCqRFCConfig
SAPConnect
SLD Data Supplier Configuration
SCOT Configuration
SICF Configuration
SLD Access Data Configuration
Update Program Server Groups
STRUST Configuration
Last Transport Request Number
TMS QA Configuration
Users (all, selected clients, exclude)
Development Versions
Virus Scan Definitions
Web Service Configuration
Initial System Copy:
Cleanup of ABAP Basis Tables
Cleanup of Batch Jobs
Cleanup of DBA Cockpit Configuration
Cleanup of RFC In / Outbound Queue
Cleanup of SAPConnect
Cleanup of Spool Requests
Cleanup of TRUST Manager Config
Configuration of Standard Jobs
Scheduling in DBA Planning Calendar
Configuration of MSSQL
Configuration of Licenses
Configuration of Logon Groups
Configuration of System Profiles
Configuration of Operation Modes
Configuration of Secure Store
Configuration of Spool, TMS
Schedule of job RDDIMPDP

6. You can check out the details in your ABAP system by opening the Task List editor and browsing through the
system copy / refresh lists, once your system is on the minimum SP level (see note).
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For Java Systems: System Refresh:
RFC destinations
Security configuration (SSL key store, ticket key store)
User management handling
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Initial System Copy:
RFC destinations
Security configuration (SSL key store, ticket key store)
TREX property setting
SLD configuration (SLD CIM client, SLD HTTP configuration)
SAP Notes:
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System Rename for SAP - https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1619720
Post Copy Automation - https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1614266
SAP System Copy approach - https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1767253
Which stacks are supported by LVM for End-to-End automated system clone/copy/refresh
(including System Rename and PCA) ?
End-to-End
Clone
End-to-End Copy
End-to-End Refresh
ABAP
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Yes
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Stack
Yes (workaround with manual steps available, see sectionJava
Java
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Refresh Workaround below)
Stack
No (see section Notes on DualDualYes
Stack below)
No (see section Notes on Dual-Stack below)
Stack
NOTE: See SAP Note 1527538 for details on which SAP NetWeaver versions are supported.
Java System Refresh Workaround
User & passwords need to be manually exported and imported – for more information, see SAP
Note 1807150
Notes on Dual-Stack
Mandatory dual-stack systems (such as SAP NetWeaver Process Integration or SAP Solution Manager)
are not supported by system copy/refresh of SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management
today.
For optional dual-stack systems (such as SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse systems with BI Java),
see the following best practice to use SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management for copying
or refreshing them:

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General recommendation: use the dual-stack split procedure to change the layout of your optional dualstack systems to single stack
SAP communicated to discontinue optional dual-stack systems with higher releases than SAP
NetWeaver 7.31 and SAP Business Suite 7i2011. As a result, by splitting your optional dual-stack
systems, you are prepared for future updates/upgrades to releases that do no longer support optional
dual-stack (such as to SAP NetWeaver 7.40). You profit from the benefits that single stack deployments
offer, such as higher flexibility, availability and scalability. Customer feedback shows that the dual-stack
split procedure is easy, fast and reliable. For more information, see the dual-stack page in SAP
Community Network at:http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-25162.
After the split, you can profit from all the benefits SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management
is offering in the area of system copy and system refresh, as outlined in SAP Note 1527538.
Reasonable alternative: un-install and re-install the Java stack of dual-stack SAP NetWeaver BW
systems
If you are using the Java stack of a dual-stack SAP NetWeaver BW system for BI Java only, it might be a
reasonable procedure to un-install the Java stack and perform a new installation of a stand-alone BI Java
system from scratch. For more information, see the SAP NetWeaver BW landing page in SAP Community
Network at: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-785 .
After the un-installation, you can profit from all the benefits SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization
Management is offering in the area of system copy and system refresh, as outlined in SAP Note 1527538
Possible exception: stay with dual-stack systems
If you decide to keep the dual-stack layout for your optional dual-stack systems, you cannot profit from
the benefits SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management is offering in the area of system copy
and system refresh as of today.