Recall from the product architecture discussion (See Reference Architecture) that in addition to the VLA Appliance and VCO workflows that this document discussed installing in previous sections, the VLA product includes a VMware Adapter for SAP LaMa system. This section, and its sub-sections, discuss how to install said VMware Adapter for SAP LaMa where said system is running on a supported SUSE or Redhat Linux operating system.
Before you can deploy said adapter, ensure that the LaMa system is running, that you can SSH to it and logon to its Netweaver web user interface.
VMware currently supports two methods for deploying the VLA Adapter to the LaMa system:
Using the vla_adapter command, discussed in the next sub-section (See Deploying the VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management via the vla_adapter command)
Issuing a series of shell commands as discussed in section Deploying the VMware Adapter for SAP Landscape Management via Several Shell Commands
The next two sub-sections provide details for each of these options.
