Hardware Pre-requisites

Host Operating System (Personal Computer)

• 2 GHz dual-core, x86 64-bit processor, or better.
• 8 GB system memory, or more.
  • 16 GB preferred; 4 GB minimum.
• 20 GB for hard-drive swap memory, or more.
  • 8 GB minimum.
• 190+ GB of free hard-drive space, or more.
  • 30 GB for the downloads and manuals.
  • 160 GB for the Guest Operating System.
    • OpenSUSE OS, virtual memory (swap), MiniSAP and room to explore.
• 10 GB hard-drive space already used by your current host operating system.
• Internet access for downloads, updates and this course.

Guest Operating System (Virtual Machine)

• 2 GHz dual-core, x86 64-bit processor, or better.
• 8 GB system memory, or more.
  • 16 GB preferred; 4 GB minimum.
• 20 GB for hard-drive swap memory, or more.
  • 8 GB minimum.
• 130+ GB of free hard-drive space, or more.
  • 115 GB officially recommended for this MiniSAP Developer Edition.
  • 5 GB for the maximum database size (license max).
  • 10 GB for general use and growth of log files.
• 10 GB of hard-drive space for the guest operating system.
• Internet access for updates to the guest operating system, Eclipse Tools (developer add-ons) and searching the web.

FAQ: But I don’t have 220GB of hard-drive space!

That’s ok, you won’t need it all at once to get MiniSAP installed. 

• The Virtual Machine Image (VMI) of the Guest Operating System will dynamically grow when required. Only ~50 GB of the recommended 160 GB is required at the beginning of the journey.
• Save ~20+ GB by moving all of the originally downloaded files off to external backup drives.
• Save ~15 GB by deleting the Unrared/decompressed MiniSAP installation files (once installed).
• Hard-drive housekeeping:
  • When was the last time you deleted the historical system restore points you’ll never ever use?
  • When did you last delete all the windows update installers?
  • When did you last delete all the known temporary files? Not just garbage.

Consider Using External SSD Drives

The standard capability of today’s modern computers, especially those with USB C connectors running USB v3 protocols, opens up a few creative configurations that really work. The entire Guest Operating System, the Virtual Machine Image (VMI) can be created, configured and run directly from an external SSD drive with little to no perceptible performance issues. 

Advantage: Leverage the current computer operating system, without sacrificing much of the internal hard drive space.

Advantage: Easier to backup, duplicate, restore the entire Guest Operating System. 

Advantage: Suitable for exploring ABAP code, BW Data Models and UI5 User frontends.

Congratulations, keep going.