IBM PureFlex System for consistent SAP solution hosting and management

Highlights●● ● ●Support your critical SAP applications

with the flexibility of general purpose systems and the simplicity of an appliance with integrated expertise.

●● ● ●Combine native IBM server qualities like performance and reliability with best fit for your individual SAP landscape setup.

●● ● ●Balance, manage and optimize all elements for your SAP infrastructure—compute, storage and networking—with simple integrated management.

●● ● ●Accelerate cloud-based services for your SAP systems by integrating the IBM Flex System Manager with SAP NetWeaver® Landscape Virtualization Management.

Growing demand for compute power, ongoing budget challenges, rising customer expectations, threats from nimble competitors and more—are placing extraordinary demands on IT systems managers. In nearly every industry, IT is expected to play a central role in the business, helping you make better decisions, improve core business processes and prevent busi-ness problems. With over 100,000 installations, companies around the world rely on the SAP® Business Suite to help improve business decision making. To continue to meet changing business requirements with con-strained budgets, the teams who support these solutions must maintain f lexible and efficient infrastructures, hosting multiple enterprise critical SAP applications and business data.

Virtualized servers, storage and networks are a well established founda-tion for SAP solutions, providing a f lexible infrastructure that supports high resource utilization. However, the various IT layers and architec-tures of these solutions are often provided by multiple vendors and use different management tools. Each tool may require a distinct skill set and the tools may not support an integrated view of your solution across technologies. An IBM PureFlex System™ infrastructure, managed with the IBM Flex System Manager provides an integrated, easy-to-manage IT solution for heterogeneous SAP infrastructures.

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Integration of an SAP Data Center into a single rackThe IBM PureFlex System portfolio is designed so you can build a solution combining POWER7® and Intel processor-based compute nodes and storage technology to tailor the mix of technologies to your individual SAP application

requirements. The building blocks offer platform-specific advantages from the latest IBM POWER7 or Intel processor-based technology, meaning you get critical characteristics for SAP applications: reliability, performance and processor and memory scalability. Combined with standard virtualization

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layers and operating systems, you can be sure that SAP support is always aligned with newest available releases—no proprietary layers restrict SAP software compatibility.

The high density of PureFlex System supports physical consolidation to a small footprint and is designed to reduce the need for external components and cabling. With an efficient

virtualization implementation, using IBM PowerVM® or other virtualization technologies you can consolidate your systems and get the benefit of resource pooling and autonomous peak load compensation for your SAP components.

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IBM Flex System Manager offers simple administrationIBM Flex System Manager is designed to help you get the most out of your heterogeneous SAP solution while simplifying and automating repetitive tasks. From simplified system set up procedures with wizards and built-in expertise to consolidated

monitoring for all of your resources—compute, storage, networking, virtualization and energy—Flex System Manager provides core management functionality along with automation so you can focus your efforts on business innovation.

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Flex System Manager integrates and simplifies the management of the various physical and virtual architectures of your SAP solution. The most complex solutions, including SAP appli-ances can easily be consolidated in a single PureFlex System rack and administrated from a single user interface with Flex System Manager. This integration simplifies routine monitor-ing and cross-node utilization adjustment. New resources within your SAP solution—both for capacity and project reasons—can easily be assigned. As the IBM PureFlex System architecture was “born” virtualized, it provides an ideal base for managing your SAP infrastructure as a private cloud.

Support integrated management and cloud-based servicesWith an IBM PureFlex System, you get an ideal platform to consolidate and manage the infrastructure for virtually all of your business applications. The base infrastructure and its associated management processes are designed to be application agnostic. But with the optional combination of IBM Flex System Manager and the SAP Landscape Virtualization Management software you achieve an integration of infrastruc-ture and SAP base application management. Typical tasks for managing SAP ecosystems can be performed more quickly, more f lexibly and with fewer errors. You can accelerate key tasks like monitoring and visualization, cloning, copying, and refreshing of SAP systems while minimizing impact on source SAP systems.

This combination of the PureFlex System infrastructure and its native automation capabilities with the SAP management products establishes an excellent foundation for deploying and operating SAP landscapes in a private cloud environment. The SAP Landscape Virtualization Management software is designed to connect application management services with system virtualization and storage management services. The software can take advantage of compute and storage resources

through Flex System Manager and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager. As a result, administrative workflows which encompass both platform and application tasks now can easily be launched and supervised from an SAP-based user interface.

Why IBM?IBM has built on knowledge, expertise and technology gained from decades of experience and investment in IT solutions for business problems and integrated it into the PureFlex System. And with a commitment to open standards you can integrate IBM solutions with other elements of your own environment with your network of partners, customers and suppliers.

With the technical and industry expertise of IBM Business Partners like SAP and our combined ability and skill to integrate it all together for you—along with an unwavering commitment to your success—you can rely on IBM and your IBM PureFlex System for your SAP solution.

For more informationTo learn more about the benefits of an IBM PureFlex System configuration for your SAP solution, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website: ibm.com/pureflex

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