2008 Virtual SAP Presentation_a

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Virtualize your SAP?Only if you want to save money, Time, and

your companies future

Presenter: Christopher M. Carter Of CCI

www.ccierp.com

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SAP deployments can generate significant server sprawl due to its tiered

architecture and

the need to provision separate systems for development, quality assurance/test and

production environments. As a result, SAP implementations often span 50, 100 or

more servers, and even smaller implementations feel the burden of a relatively large IT

footprint.

In a typical deployment, every layer of the environment is hosted on dedicated

physical systems that are not fully utilized much of the time. SAP implementations on

Microsoft Windows have an average application server CPU utilization rate of 15-20

percent.Underutilized hardware resources take up space and eat energy.

Computing equipment has become increasingly dense, energy costs are on the rise and

many datacenters simply lack the power or space IT services require. Industry analysts

estimate the annual cost of powering

a server will soon exceed its acquisition cost.

SAP customers use virtualization to reduce their hardware and energy costs anddramatically increase hardware utilization


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Easing SAP Solutions Upgrades and Platform Migrations

Many SAP solutions deployments will undergo a major upgrade over the next year or two as SAP

ends support for SAP R/3 Enterprise and SAP R/3 4.6c 32-bit applications. Many of these companies are

using the upgrade window as an opportunity to move their SAP solution-based landscape from older,

proprietary platforms to cost-effective industry standard servers and Microsoft or open source

operating systems.Problems with the complex upgrade process can have a significant business impact. Upgrades

must be thoroughly planned and tested to ensure the smoothest and least disruptive transition

possible. You can accelerate and improve the planning and testing phase with virtualization,

achieving faster and more cost-efficient upgrades while reducing risk to the business.

Streamline provisioning of development, testing, and staging instances: An important task in the

upgrade project is the setup of environments. The initial setup is one part of this task, but ad-hoc

deployments of new environments for test or development purposes are commonly required as well.The ability to provide new environments as quickly as possible is especially important if the project

includes a migration or an operating system upgrade. In a traditional native deployment, this process

tends to be time consuming and can cause expensive project delays, particularly if available hardware

is not sufficient. Configuration drift may also become a source of problems for the non-SAP aspects

of the upgrade (OS, OS patches, database binaries, etc.).


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Organizations need to

find ways to make their

IT budgets go farther

than ever.


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Virtualization 1.0

Closed architecture Expensive Complex Heavy weight Needs a driver

Next Gen Virtualization

Open Virtually free Radically simple Lightweight Designed for ubiquity


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Meeting SLAs for Availability, Application Performance,

and Disaster Recovery

SAP application owners, basis administrators and the IT staff

are on the hook to meet Service Level Agreements that

guarantee availability and performance targets for solution

users. Virtualization works alongside SAP-provided functionality to

deliver infrastructure and application performance and high

availability for critical businessfunctions.


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Data centerEvolution

Under utilized

hardware

Increasing costs of

ownership

Difficult management

Barriers to expansion

Phase 1 Recognize

Dynamic Workload

Delivery

Automation / Policy

Chargeback / Utility

Pervasive

Virtualization

Phase 4 DynamicDatacenter

Some tier 1

applications

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Mobility

Phase 3 Agility

Test/Dev

Encapsulation

Consolidation

Craplications

Phase 2 Consolidate


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Barriers to adoption

?

Cost prohibitive

Complexity

Mission critical readiness

Performance

Traditional concerns

Platforms supported

Vendor Lock InPhysical requirement

Windows

LinuxWeb tier servers

Test/DevDBMS

Physical boxes

ProductionTier 1 apps

Custom Apps

86% Unvirtualized

OLTP

Infrastructure Servers

Etc


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Dynamic Workload Streaming (Provisioning)

Network

storage

Provisioning Server

(streaming service)

Silo One

Silo Two

Silo Three

A

B


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Reducing Server Count

Solution: Virtualize the server

3-4x more users per server

16 GB RAM

Two Quad-core processors

4 Virtual Machines

(4 GB RAM, 2 Virtual CPUs

for each)

Physical Server4 GB RAM

Two processors

Before100 usersAfter300+ users

AA

A

A

A


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Citrix, Microsoft & VMware Three Horse

Race VMware is feature-

rich

Hyper-V is

affordable, but lacks

key functionality

Citrix is enterprise-

readyEnterprise Ready

Value


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Business Continuity

Business

Continuity

With automated high availability

integrated disaster recovery, and tools

forzero-downtime server maintenance,Virtualization makes it easy to keep a

business running.


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Dynamic Data Centers

Where and What

Heterogeneous server/storage data centers withcomplex IT environments

Organizations struggling to manage serverinfrastructure proactively

Organizations that want to treat application deliveryas a service

Data centers that need to scale computing resourcesup and down based on demand

Benefits

Rapid, on demand provisioning of servers andapplications

Scalable, efficient management of serverinfrastructure

End-to-end tools for desktop, application and servervirtualization

CCI makes pricing and packaging options to makeserver virtualization feasible across the enterprise

Dynamic

Datacenters


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Simplest, efficient ways to virtualize servers

Virtualization decreases costs and increases IT agility

Builds on virtualization to deliver dynamic data center

Best virtualization partners platform forSAP

Build on the scalable and open support Unparalleledperformance, economics, and ease-of-use

Key Customer Benefits


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YOUR OPTIONS


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VMware and SAP

VMware Infrastructure 3 is a flexible and cost-effective industry-standard hardware virtualization suite for SAP solution

implementations, helping you introduce and manage a smarter

SAP application-based landscape.SAP AG provides full support

to its solutions in 64-bit Windows- and Linux-based productionenvironments running on VMware ESX, the first and so far

only virtualization platform to earn this distinction.


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Top Ten Reasons to Run SAP Software Solutions on VMware Infrastructure

Upgrade safely to the latest SAP solutions and simplify the transition to 64-bit

environmentsIncrease availability of all environments at lower cost

Create cost-effective disaster recovery systems

Quickly deploy new SAP solutions-based environments for development and test

Align SAP resources with business priorities

Decrease SAP data center costs for space, energy, cooling, hardware, and labor

Increase SAP data center utilization, flexibility, availability, and agility

Increase software quality at lower cost for your own SAP application-based

development

Inrease uptime during planned maintenance

Realize immediate ROI


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Xenserver5.com


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XenServer with XenApp

Reduce server count up to 75%...

Enhance Agility

Increase Availability

without compromising performance


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Microsoft Hyper-V:

Performance tests at SAP and with H/W partners went very well and the

performance numbers we have seen are very good. Current test results are based onSAP Web Application Server 7.00 on Windows Server 2003 in a VM with 2 virtual

processors. I expect soon to have the first published benchmark results on

http://www.sap.com/benchmark. SAP provides feedback on these tests as well as tips

for optimal configuration on their URL https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/windows .

There is a general White Paper about virtualizing SAP applications on Windows as

well as specific Hyper-V info. Additionally, you can check SAP note 674851 which

is frequently updated.
http://www.sap.com/benchmarkhttps://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/windowshttps://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/windowshttp://www.sap.com/benchmark


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Recommendations


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Citrix & VMware

Enterprise Features VMware XenServer

Multi-server managementa a

Role-based administration a

Auto-placement of VMs (load

balancing)a a

Live migration a a

High Availability a a

DR support a a

Optimized for XenApp a

Workload streaming (provisioning a a

Advanced storage integration a a

Proxy Server Backups a

Workload streaming (provisioning) a


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CCI is the ONLY certified SAP partner to support,install and manage Virtualized SAP environments

around the world

CCI will provide SAP certified staff with Virtualized

certified staff from all virtualization products, wesupport you through POC, to purchases toimplementation and full testing before ANY go-live.


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Please feel free to ask any and all questions thatyou may have?

Q&A Session


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