Configure SAP installation parameters
The Ansible playbooks use a combination of default parameters and parameters defined by the Terraform deployment for the SAP installation.
Default parameters
The following tables contain the default parameters defined by the framework.
User IDs
This table contains the IDs for the SAP users and groups for the different platforms.
| Parameter | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
| HANA | ||
sapadm_uid |
The UID for the sapadm account | 2100 |
sidadm_uid |
The UID for the sidadm account | 2003 |
hdbadm_uid |
The UID for the hdbadm account | 2200 |
sapinst_gid |
The GID for the sapinst group | 2001 |
sapsys_gid |
The GID for the sapsys group | 2000 |
hdbshm_gid |
The GID for the hdbshm group | 2002 |
| DB2 | ||
db2sidadm_uid |
The UID for the db2sidadm account | 3004 |
db2sapsid_uid |
The UID for the db2sapsid account | 3005 |
db2sysadm_gid |
The UID for the db2sysadm group | 3000 |
db2sysctrl_gid |
The UID for the db2sysctrl group | 3001 |
db2sysmaint_gid |
The UID for the db2sysmaint group | 3002 |
db2sysmon_gid |
The UID for the db2sysmon group | 2003 |
| ORACLE | ||
orasid_uid |
The UID for the orasid account | 3100 |
oracle_uid |
The UID for the oracle account | 3101 |
observer_uid |
The UID for the observer account | 4000 |
dba_gid |
The GID for the dba group | 3100 |
oper_gid |
The GID for the oper group | 3101 |
asmoper_gid |
The GID for the asmoper group | 3102 |
asmadmin_gid |
The GID for the asmadmin group | 3103 |
asmdba_gid |
The GID for the asmdba group | 3104 |
oinstall_gid |
The GID for the oinstall group | 3105 |
backupdba_gid |
The GID for the backupdba group | 3106 |
dgdba_gid |
The GID for the dgdba group | 3107 |
kmdba_gid |
The GID for the kmdba group | 3108 |
racdba_gid |
The GID for the racdba group | 3108 |
Windows parameters
This table contains the information pertinent to Windows deployments.
| Parameter | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
mssserver_version |
SQL Server version | mssserver2019 |
Parameters
The following tables contain the parameters stored in the sap-parameters.yaml file. Most of the values are prepopulated via the Terraform deployment.
Infrastructure
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
sap_fqdn |
The FQDN suffix for the virtual machines to be added to the local hosts file | Required |
Application tier
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
bom_base_name |
The name of the SAP Application Bill of Materials file | Required |
sap_sid |
The SID of the SAP application | Required |
scs_high_availability |
Defines if the central services is deployed highly available | Required |
scs_instance_number |
Defines the instance number for ASCS | Optional |
scs_lb_ip |
IP address of ASCS instance | Optional |
scs_virtual_hostname |
The host name of the ASCS instance | Optional |
ers_instance_number |
Defines the instance number for ERS | Optional |
ers_lb_ip |
IP address of ERS instance | Optional |
ers_virtual_hostname |
The host name of the ERS instance | Optional |
pas_instance_number |
Defines the instance number for PAS | Optional |
web_sid |
The SID for the web dispatcher | Required if web dispatchers are deployed |
scs_clst_lb_ip |
IP address of Windows cluster service | Optional |
Database tier
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
db_sid |
The SID of the SAP database. | Required |
db_instance_number |
Defines the instance number for the database. | Required |
db_high_availability |
Defines if the database is deployed highly available. | Required |
db_lb_ip |
IP address of the database load balancer. | Optional |
platform |
The database platform. Valid values are ASE, DB2, HANA, ORACLE, and SQLSERVER. | Required |
db_clst_lb_ip |
IP address of database cluster for Windows. | Optional |
NFS
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
NFS_provider |
Defines what NFS back end to use. The options are AFS for Azure Files NFS or ANF for Azure NetApp Files, NONE for NFS from the SCS server, or NFS for an external NFS solution. |
Optional |
sap_mnt |
The NFS path for sap_mnt. | Required |
sap_trans |
The NFS path for sap_trans. | Required |
usr_sap_install_mountpoint |
The NFS path for usr/sap/install. | Required |
Azure NetApp Files
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
hana_data |
The NFS path for hana_data volumes | Required |
hana_log |
The NFS path for hana_log volumes | Required |
hana_shared |
The NFS path for hana_shared volumes | Required |
usr_sap |
The NFS path for /usr/sap volumes | Required |
Windows support
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
domain_name |
Defines the Windows domain name, for example, sap.contoso.net | Required |
domain |
Defines the Windows domain Netbios name, for example, sap | Optional |
| SQL | ||
use_sql_for_SAP |
Uses the SAP-defined SQL Server media, defaults to true |
Optional |
win_cluster_share_type |
Defines the cluster type (CSD/FS), defaults to CSD | Optional |
Miscellaneous
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
kv_name |
The name of the Azure key vault that contains the system credentials | Required |
secret_prefix |
The prefix for the name of the secrets for the SID stored in the key vault | Required |
upgrade_packages |
Updates all installed packages on the virtual machines | Required |
use_msi_for_clusters |
Uses managed identities for fencing | Required |
Disks
Disks define a dictionary with information about the disks of all the virtual machines in the SAP application virtual machines.
| Attribute | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
host |
The computer name of the virtual machine. | Required |
LUN |
Defines the LUN number that the disk is attached to. | Required |
type |
This attribute is used to group the disks. Each disk of the same type is added to the LVM on the virtual machine. | Required |
Example of the disks dictionary:
disks:
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 0, type: 'sap' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 10, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 11, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 12, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 13, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 20, type: 'log' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 21, type: 'log' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 22, type: 'log' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l084', LUN: 2, type: 'backup' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 0, type: 'sap' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 10, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 11, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 12, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 13, type: 'data' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 20, type: 'log' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 21, type: 'log' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 22, type: 'log' }
- { host: 'rh8dxdb00l184', LUN: 2, type: 'backup' }
- { host: 'rh8app00l84f', LUN: 0, type: 'sap' }
- { host: 'rh8app01l84f', LUN: 0, type: 'sap' }
- { host: 'rh8scs00l84f', LUN: 0, type: 'sap' }
- { host: 'rh8scs01l84f', LUN: 0, type: 'sap' }
Oracle support
From the v3.4 release, it's possible to deploy SAP on Azure systems in a shared home configuration by using an Oracle database back end. For more information on running SAP on Oracle in Azure, see Azure Virtual Machines Oracle DBMS deployment for SAP workload.
To install the Oracle back end by using SAP Deployment Automation Framework, you need to provide the following parameters:
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
platform |
The database back end, ORACLE |
Required |
ora_release |
The Oracle release version, for example, 19 | Required |
ora_release |
The Oracle release version, for example, 19.0.0 | Required |
oracle_sbp_patch |
The Oracle SBP patch file name | Required |
Shared home support
To configure shared home support for Oracle, you need to add a dictionary that defines the SIDs to be deployed. You can do that by adding the parameter MULTI_SIDS that contains a list of the SIDs and the SID details.
MULTI_SIDS:
- {sid: 'DE1', dbsid_uid: '3005', sidadm_uid: '2001', ascs_inst_no: '00', pas_inst_no: '00', app_inst_no: '00'}
- {sid: 'QE1', dbsid_uid: '3006', sidadm_uid: '2002', ascs_inst_no: '01', pas_inst_no: '01', app_inst_no: '01'}
Each row must specify the following parameters:
| Parameter | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
sid |
The SID for the instance | Required |
dbsid_uid |
The UID for the DB admin user for the instance | Required |
sidadm_uid |
The UID for the SID admin user for the instance | Required |
ascs_inst_no |
The ASCS instance number for the instance | Required |
pas_inst_no |
The PAS instance number for the instance | Required |
app_inst_no |
The APP instance number for the instance | Required |
Override the default parameters
You can override the default parameters by either specifying them in the sap-parameters.yaml file or by passing them as command-line parameters to the Ansible playbooks.
For example, if you want to override the default value of the group ID for the sapinst group (sapinst_gid) parameter, add the following line to the sap-parameters.yaml file:
sapinst_gid: 1000
If you want to provide them as parameters for the Ansible playbooks, add the following parameter to the command line:
ansible-playbook -i hosts SID_hosts.yaml --extra-vars "sapinst_gid=1000" .....
You can also override the default parameters by specifying them in the configuration_settings variable in your tfvars file. For example, if you want to override sapinst_gid, your tfvars file should contain the following line:
configuration_settings = {
sapinst_gid = "1000"
}
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