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This guide describes a highly available SAP landscape running on VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 on Dell servers and centralized SAN or NAS storage. The guide provides the requirements and implementation details for this landscape and the availability guidance for planned software and hardware maintenance.
This document is intended for IT staff who are responsible for planning or implementing a highly available SAP landscape that is running fully or partly virtualized on VMware vSphere. Familiarity with VMware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SAP technologies is recommended.