Installing SAP Application Instances with Virtual Host Names on UNIX
You can install the current software provisioning manager implementations directly on the virtual host name. No preparation and subsequent work regarding the host names is necessary.
Prerequisites
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You have read the installation guide of the software provisioning manager, which is available with the Software Logistics Toolset.
For more information, see Software Provisioning Manager.
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You have downloaded the latest Support Package of the software provisioning manager.
Context
To install the central instance on a different host name as the database, it is important to use distributed installation.
SAP Landscape Management can run different instances of an SAP application instances in different computing nodes. For this, the instances must get their own virtual host names. This requires at least two different virtual host names for the database and the central instance. (This is valid for ABAP only; Java Enterprise Edition has no central instance.)
The convention used in SAP Landscape Management is as follows:
<instance type>[<no>]<SID>
Depending on the network setup (for example, user LAN, server LAN), more host names may be needed (for example, server, client network). In this case, a host name convention could be as follows:
<instance type>[<no>]<SID>[-network]
