What This Chapter Is About
In preparation for the implementation of an SAP system, your network must be able to support TCP/IP and the corresponding address structures. Given the success of the Internet, this is the case for most enterprises. Because of the high impact of Internet technologies on SAP systems, we will review some of the underlying technologies in the first part of the chapter. The addressing and naming structure of a system landscape has to be determined before starting installation of the systems. SAP does not support a host name change after installation, and changes to the IP address structure cause downtime and additional costs. Therefore, the network addressing concept has to be structured and wide enough to support future ...
Get SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
