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How to protect SAP applications against L1 terminal fault exploit?

The L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) is a new variant of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities that might occur on Intel CPUs. Even when L1TF has no direct impact on the SAP application, protecting the underlying technology layers might impact the performance of your SAP application.

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Check out the Cluster Check Tool

Use collected configuration and logging data from your Windows Server Failover Cluster to validate your configuration.

Speculative Execution Side-Channel Vulnerabilities

Many modern processors and operating systems, including chipsets from Intel, AMD, and ARM are affected by a new class of vulnerabilities that are called “speculative execution side-channel attacks”. Find out what you can do to get all available protections.

Windows Cluster without shared disks?

SAP now supports (A)SCS configurations in a Windows Failover Cluster, which does not contain any shared disk. Instead, the configuration uses a SMB share for SAPMNT and local installed (A)SCS instances, which are under control of the cluster.

SAP NetWeaver Applications on Google Cloud Platform

SAP now supports SAP NetWeaver applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As for prerequisites, supported versions and products, check SAP Note 2456432 or the corresponding WIKI page.

VMware vSphere: Possible Performance Degradation on Windows

If you use Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 or 2016 guests with VMware vSphere and you experience an increased rate of “Received Dropped Packets”, see this blog for more information.

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SAP Systems on Windows Server 2016

SAP now supports Windows Server 2016. As for the appropriate prerequisites and supported databases / SAP product versions please check the SAP Product Availability Matrix (PAM).

Known Issue with Windows Server 2008 on Current Processor Generations

SAP executables for SAP NetWeaver release 7.45 that run on Windows Server 2008 and use the newest processor generations crash when using math functions.

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How to use Windows Organizational Units in Software Provisioning Manager

Starting with the delivery of SP 10, which is part of SL Toolset 1.0 SPS 16, the SAP installer Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) supports Active Directory-based Organizational Units (OUs).