Installing the Linux Environment

First the linux_base port needs to be installed (as root):

# cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base
# make install distclean

SAP R/3 4.6C, Oracle 8.1.7

For this installation a Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2500 was used: a dual processor board with two 1000 MHz Pentium III processors (256 kB Cache), 2 GB PC133 ECC SDRAM, PERC/3 DC PCI RAID Controller with 128 MB, and an EIDE DVD-ROM drive. To the RAID controller are attached two 18 GB hard disks (mirrored) and four 36 GB hard disks (RAID level 5).

SAP R/3 4.6B, Oracle 8.0.5

The following off-the-shelf hardware was used: a dual processor board with 2 800 MHz Pentium III processors, Adaptec® 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter (for accessing a 40/80 GB DLT tape drive and CDROM), Mylex® AcceleRAID™ (2 channels, firmware 6.00-1-00 with 32 MB RAM). To the Mylex RAID controller are attached two 17 GB hard disks (mirrored) and four 36 GB hard disks (RAID level 5).

10.7.4 Hardware Requirements for basis installation

The following equipment is sufficient for the installation of a SAP R/3 System. For production use, a more exact sizing is of course needed:
Component 4.6B 4.6C
Processor 2 x 800MHz Pentium® III 2 x 800MHz Pentium III
Memory 1GB ECC 2GB ECC
Hard Disk Space 50-60GB (IDES) 50-60GB (IDES)

For use in production, Xeon™ Processors with large cache, high-speed disk access (SCSI, RAID hardware controller), USV and ECC-RAM is recommended. The large amount of hard disk space is due to the preconfigured IDES System, which creates 27 GB of database files during installation. This space is also sufficient for initial production systems and application data.