NW2004s on VMWARE

[Former Member]

Hello,

i have a problem after installation of NW2004s on VMWare 1.01.

The installation of the CI and DB are running without Problems, and in the SAP MMC it seems that all processes

are running. But when i will logon to the SAP System with

SAP GUI ( SAP GUI 640 ), i got no connection.

Have another Person the same Problem?

best regards

Herbert Heppner

[Former Member]

Problem was the different System ID

[Former Member]

Hi, Herbert

Can you explain how you solved the problem?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

use the right connection parameters for he SAPgui to connect to the VMware based ABAP application server.

peter

[Former Member]

Hi, Peter

If the SAP GUI was installed on a remote physical machine, can this client access the SAP VM instance?

Thanks in advance.

[former_member204746]

I hope you guys know that SAP DOES NOT support VMWare in a productive state.

check SAP note Note 674851 - Virtualization on Windows:

SAP VMware ESX Server 3.0 cannot be generally released for the productive use of SAP applications. In cooperation with VMware, SAP currently works on a solution for the problems mentioned above and develops configuration recommendations for the application and the database.

[Former Member]

Hi, Eric

Yes - I have seen that note. Am trying out SAP on VMWare in dev/test environment only.

Can you shed some light on my question ?

Thanks in advance.

[markus_doehr2]

How did you set up networking in VMware? Bridged?

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Markus

[Former Member]

Hi, Markus

No. I used NAT.

Thanks.

[markus_doehr2]

And can you ping the addresse from the SAPGUI host?

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Markus

[Former Member]

Hi, Markus

I haven't gotten there yet. Am still installing the ÉCC 6.0 on the VM.

I was asking the question to prepare in advance. Any idea how I can connect SAP GUI on my PC to the SAP sitting on VM on another physical server?

Thanks in advance.

[markus_doehr2]

Yes - that´s possible.

You know if you have a DHCP server on your network? That would make installation easier.

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Markus

[Former Member]

Hi, Markus

Its only 1 server where I am installing this SAP instance on VMware Server. Can this be the DHCP server also? Are you saying that that SAPGUI can connect to this SAP instance on VMware Server?

Thanks.

[markus_doehr2]

You should check with your network group for DHCP. I do NOT suggest installing a separate DHCP server on your box if you have already one, this will confuse the whole network because other PCs may get IP adresses from YOUR box instead of the correct one.

It´s a bit difficult to explain here if you have no network and/or TCP/IP background how to configure the system but it´s possible to configure your instance running in VMWare so that it´s reachable from another PC.

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Markus

[ryosukemouri]

Hi

By any chance, does anyone know which port is used by SAP GUI and how to setup port forwarding on Windows?

My environment is

SAPGUI(Laptop PC) -> SAP Instance (Virtual OS on Desktop PC / NAT)

Due to our network policy, I couldn't allocate an IP (as in Public IP) from DHCP to the virtual os so that I'm having to use NAT (private IP).

Any idea is appreciated.

Thanks,

Ryosuke

[markus_doehr2]

It depends on your instance number, if it´s 00 you need to forward the following ports:

3200/tcp (SAPGUI DIAG protocol)

3300/tcp (Gateway)

3600/tcp (Messageserver)

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Markus

[Former Member]

the easiest way is to have a DHCP server on the network and use the briged network configuration.

But sometimes you can't use DHCP (MSCS configurations).

In this case you have to do all that IP-configuration manually.

How - that depends on wether you are using DNS for hostname resolution or the old style method /etc/hosts (windows: %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)

But it would be much easier for all of us if we do not have to discuss such basic network configuration questions here. people trying to setup SAP server software should be familar with networking questions more than ever if you are talking about VMware.

regards

Peter

[Former Member]

no, but:

where is SAPGUI installed and running?

within the VMWare Virtual Machine?

If outside, how is the Network of the VMWare VM configured.?

regards

Peter

[Former Member]

The SAP GUI was installed at the same VMWare Virtual Machine. Also with IE6, i cannot connect over Port 50000 to the J2EE Engine

regards

Herbert