SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP

CHAPTER 32SAP Infrastructure and Platform Testing

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Goals of Infrastructure Testing

• System-Level Stress Testing and Pretuning

• Server Hardware and OS Testing

• Disk Subsystem and Database Testing

• Network Infrastructure Testing

• SAP Failover and Other HA/DR Infrastructure Testing

• Testing Tools in Action—Server Comparison

• Summary

• Case Study: Infrastructure Testing

In this chapter we introduce you to infrastructure testing tools. We include a discussion of the various purposes they serve. Further, we show how these tools are used in real-life situations. You will find that all of the tools we cover are freely downloadable from the Web—we have chosen not to cover commercial products here, although several good ones ...