Network overview

As stated in 

IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Enterprise Edition for mySAP Business 

Suite Planning,

 BOEE EUIPL, several LANs should be set up for optimum 

performance security and availability. The recommended LANs are ADMINLAN, 

CUSTLAN, and DBLAN. As Tivoli Provisioning Manager requires the use of 

VLANS, and to keep our scenario as simple as possible, we chose to combine all 

LANs described above into a single VLAN. 

In a production environment it is strongly recommended that several LANs (or 

VLANs) should be set up to enhance overall network performance and security. 

To keep the Linux on zSeries network setup and configuration simple and to 

ensure minimal system changes after the provisioning operations complete, we 

chose to make use of a vswitch in z/VM. This enabled definition of the SUSE 

SLES 8 Linux for zSeries servers with a virtual device address for the network 

that could be duplicated for each and every additional system we needed to 

provision, without having to perform additional customization work.

Integration implementation overview

The goal of this paper is to implement an environment similar to Figure 3 on 

page 13.

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Dynamic Provisioning of SAP Environments using IBM DI for mySAP and Tivoli Provisioning