SAP Note 26417 - SAP GUI Resources: Hardware and software
Note Language: English
Version: 70 Validity:
Valid Since 03.01.2011
Summary
Symptom
This note contains information on hardware and software requirements of SAP
GUI for Windows.
Other terms
Gui, SAPGUI, frontend, front, graphics, office integration, desktop
integration, SAPClient, resource consumption, CPU, memory, resources, SAP
GUI, recommendations, requirements, operating system, resolution, RAM,
installation, monitor, MSI, Windows Installer
Reason and Prerequisites
Important related notes
o
"SAP GUI for the Java environment" (for Linux, Mac OS, Unix,
Windows): 146505 and 1400273 (release 7.20).
o
"SAP GUI for HTML" (SAP Internet Transaction Server 6.20): 325616
o
"SAP GUI for HTML" (SAP Integrated ITS 6.40 and higher): 709038
o
"SAP GUI maintenance": 147519
Remarks:
o
Please refer to note 147519 regarding information about supported
platforms for SAP GUI for Windows and to note 146505 regarding more
information about supported platforms for SAP GUI for Java.
o
The requirements refer to the operation of the "SAP GUI" for "core"
SAP applications. The operation of additional components (such as
BW, SCM, KW, SEM) leads to partially deviating requirements (see
also the related notes).
o
The minimum requirements listed below may not be sufficient for a
productive usage of SAP GUI. Especially together with other
applications better equipped hardware may be required. You should
also check the corresponding recommendations and requirements
documented by the operating system vendors. If you are using Office
products please make sure to take the requirements and
recommendations from the vendors of these products into account as
well.
o
If your client PCs do not match the criteria defined in this note
you can evaluate WTS products as an alternative. Please see note
138869 for more information.
o
SAP SDN
For further information on the topic SAP GUI please refer to
http://sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sap-gui.
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Definitions:
o
"required": This means the resources required for using 1 session
of SAP GUI and 1 instance of a Web Browser to display the SAP
online help in parallel. However this is not a typical scenario,
but rather the absolute minimum.
o
"recommended": This means the resources required for using 3
sessions of SAP GUI, 1 instance of a Web Browser to display the SAP
online help and 1 Office product or mail client in parallel. This
would match most of the typical scenarios, but in case your users
usually need more SAP sessions of additional software you have to
take this into consideration as well. This may require individual
testing or estimations by you.
o
"processor": The requirements listed here use MHz specifications of
the Pentium processors created by Intel. However, in the context of
this note they stand for a processor performance class. This
includes both follow-up processors and compatible competitor's
products.
o
"Light" / "classic" / "new visual design" / "Enjoy design" / "SAP
Signature Design":
-
"classic" and "light" are synonyms. When using "classic" design
SAP GUI looks just like in older releases (old Windows style),
but also has slightly reduced requirements in regards to the
screen resolution.
-
"new visual design" and "Enjoy design" are synonyms
A user or administrator can decide which design of SAP GUI to
use at runtime (restart of SAP GUI required).
-
"SAP Signature" design is the new (as of Q4/2008) harmonized
SAP design (see note 1233328 for more information on SAP
Signature Design in SAP GUI for Windows).
The standard installation of SAP GUI includes support for all
three designs (see note 710719 for more information on these
designs in general).
Solution
Recommendations & Requirements for SAP GUI for Windows:
Network support
SAP GUI runs on Microsoft-compatible networks (TCP/IP protocol). The
installation requires a Microsoft-compatible network.
Monitor size / screen resolution
The specifications result from the requirement of a display without a
scrollbar (if possible). Here, the use of the default font size (SSAP
Signature / Enjoy Design "100%", Classic Design "Medium", font size 9 or 8)
is assumed.
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This does not take the integration of SAP GUI into a Web Browser (for
example into Enterprise Portal into account). If you are using SAP GUI
inside a Web Browser these requirements and recommendations apply to the
area available to SAP GUI inside the Web Browser (this is less than the
size of the Web Browser itself).
The recommendations for screen resolution, colors and monitor do not depend
on the SAP GUI release used.
Colors
Resolution
Monitor
Classic Design
required
recommended
256
256
800 x 600
1024 x 768
14" (CRT)
17" (TFT)
Colors
Resolution
Monitor
SAP Signature Design
required
recommended
64K
64K
1024 x 768
1280 x 1024
17" (CRT)
17" (TFT)
Enjoy Design
required
64K
1024 x 768
17" (CRT)
recommended
64K
1280 x 1024
17" (TFT)
The requirement for a 17" display results from the need to display the
corresponding screen resolution (1024x768) in acceptable quality and
conforming to norm. Smaller monitors which meet these criteria are
acceptable, especially laptop displays with the required resolution.
Scrollbars and therefore reduced usability may result from a lower screen
resolution.
When using 16:9 monitors you have to make sure to meet the minimum
requirements for both horizontal and vertical resolution given above. If
these conditions are met usage of these devices should not cause any
problems.
The requirement for a color depth of 64K when using Enjoy and Signature
designs is caused by the mechanism used by Windows to pick a suitable color
when the color originally used by the application is not part of the color
palette. With 256 colors it may happen that parts of the SAP GUI window are
incorrectly displayed (e.g. with wrong colors). If you are limited to
environments with 256 colors you have to use the Classic design of SAP GUI
for Windows.
With SAP Signature Design it is possible to increase the font scaling in
SAP GUI to values of higher than 150% (which was the maximum setting so
far).
Processor / Memory
When combining requirements of SAP GUI with requirements for other products
the following rules apply:
o
Processor: Take the maximum of all individual specifications
o
Memory:
Take the total of all individual specifications
The requirements and recommendations for processor, memory and hard disk
depend on the SAP GUI release that you are using. The SAP GUI resource
consumption is influenced by a number of factors including the release of
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the development environment (Visual Studio) used.
SAP GUI for Windows Release 7.10 and 7.20 using Classic or Enjoy
Design
o
o
o
Windows 2000 (only SAP GUI for Windows 7.10)
required
recommended
Processor
200+ MHz
500+ MHz
Memory
128 MB
192 MB
Windows XP / 2003 Server
required
recommended
Processor
233+ MHz+
500+ MHz
Memory
128 MB
192 MB
Windows Vista / 2008 Server / Windows 7
required
recommended
Processor
800+ MHz+
1+ GHz
Memory
512 MB
1 GB
SAP GUI itself does not consume more resources under Windows Vista or
Windows XP than under Windows 2000, but the hardware requirements of
operating systems differ regarding resource consumption.
SAP GUI for Windows Release 7.10 and 7.20 using SAP Signature Design
When SAP Signature Design is activated SAP GUI uses about 12MB additional
memory and the average CPU utilization by SAP GUI increases to between 140%
and 175% of the utilization when using Enjoy.
Therefore we increase the recommendations for SAP Signature Design to:
o
o
Windows 2000 (only SAP GUI for Windows 7.10) / Windows XP / 2003
Server
required
recommended
Processor
500+ MHz
1+ GHz
Memory
192 MB
256 MB
Windows Vista / 2008 Server / Windows 7
required
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Processor
1+ GHz
2+ GHz
Memory
512 MB
1 GB
Hard disk requirements (independent of SAP GUI release)
o
Server-dependent installation (not available for SAP GUI for
Windows 7.10 and higher)
From 15 MB, if operating system files (MFC, IE, Office) do not have
to be updated, up to 50 MB if these files have to be updated.
o
Local installation
110 MB (minimum packet SAP GUI + SAP Logon) up to 510 MB (70 MB 470 MB, if operating system files (MFC, IE, Office) do not have to
be updated).
The amount of disk space required will increase if additional components
like Adobe Lifecycle Designer have to be installed as well, but the size of
SAP GUI itself does not differ much when releases 6.20 and 7.10 are
compared.
Web Browser
o
SAP GUI for Windows requires Microsoft Internet Explorer because
SAP GUI needs operating system components which are installed
together with the Internet Explorer. SAP GUI requires an
appropriate "level" of operating system which is only available
after the IE has been installed. Microsoft only delivers these
components together with the IE. Microsoft does not support a
customized installation (for example ifonly individual DLLs are
installed).
After the installation of SAP GUI has been sucessfully completed,
the Internet Explorer iexplore.exe file can be removed in case you
do not want your users to be able to use the Microsoft Internet
Explorer. You can of course continue using other browsers (for
example Firefox).
o
A prerequisite for using SAP GUI for Windows is an installation of
IE 6.0 SP1 or higher on the client computer (earlier versions of
Internet Explorer are not supported by Microsoft anymore).
o
For SAP GUI for Windows 7.10 and higher IE 6.0 SP1 or higher is an
installation prerequisite.
o
Internet Explorer 7 is supported by SAP GUI for Windows 7.10 and
7.20 as of the initial versions (patchlevel 0).
o
Internet Explorer 8 is supported as of SAP GUI for Windows 7.10 (as
of patchlevel 13) and higher.
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Header Data
Release Status:
Released on:
Master Language:
Priority:
Category:
Primary Component:
(see note 1322184)
Released for Customer
03.01.2011
08:56:30
English
Recommendations/additional info
Installation information
BC-FES Frontend Services - use subcomponents
Secondary Components:
BC-FES-GUI Graphical User Interface
Valid Releases
Software Component
Release
BC-FES-GUI
BC-FES-GUI
60
60
From
Release
620
640
To
Release
620
640
and
Subsequent
Related Notes
Number
1233328
1013958
1013957
961487
929300
722513
710720
710719
642523
539675
525936
508649
402189
390330
369626
355426
354294
203924
200694
196998
189086
166130
164102
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Short Text
SAP Signature Design for SAP GUI for Windows
Planning Grid: SAP GUI for Java: Hardware and Software
Planning:Planning Grid:SAPGUI f Windows: Hardware & Software
SAP GUI for Java: Requirements for Release 7.10
SAP GUI for Windows 6.20: Limited support
Desktop Office Integration: Maintenance information
SAP GUI for Windows 6.40: Delivery and new functions
SAP GUI family and new visual designs
RTL SAPGUI for Hebrew: Limitations and Hardware requirements
CPCC 2.x: Installation Pre-requisites
FAQ GUI in General and support strategy
Diagnosis of frontend installation problems
SAP GUI 6.20: Features and Changes
WF Builder/WF Explorer: Hardware/software requiremts
WF builder: Screens not complete with small screen resolutio
Workplace: SAP GUI recommendations
WP 2.11: SAPGUI for Windows in mySAP.com Workplace
Performance 4.6 - collective note
Notes on SAP GUI when used via terminal server
SAP GUI resources (APO): Hardware and software
Front end requirements for CIC as of IS-U/CCS 4.6
SAP front end: Delivery and compatibility
Network load between application server and front end
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Number
161993
161053
154156
147519
146505
111442
103174
66971
Short Text
SAP GUI resources (BW): Hardware and software
Using SAPGUI in WAN
Parallel operation of different SAPGUI releases
Maintenance strategy / deadlines 'SAP GUI'
SAP GUI for the Java environment (Platform Independent GUI)
Window for strategy profile is too large
Compatibility of Office products
Supported SAP GUI platforms
Attributes
Attribute
Transaction codes
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Value
HIER
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