SAP Virtualization Solutions
SAP VirtualizationSelecting and configuring the right amounts of computer and storage hardware is essential to optimizing performance when deploying, upgrading, or expanding your SAP footprint. Virtualization technology not only dramatically lowers the total cost of deployment, but improves IT service levels, and provides greater flexibility as your system evolves. Through years of virtualization consulting services within SAP environments, DataXstream has streamlined a proprietary model to forecast the right hardware and software configuration specifically for SAP, and the tuning parameters necessary to insure optimal performance. |
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Optimizing your SAP Landscape with Virtualization
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Traditional SAP deployments for medium sized organizations allocate tens, if not hundreds of computer servers across multiple Development, Quality Assurance, and Production landscapes. The effort to acquire, configure, and then maintain these require an army of IT professionals, independent of those needed to support the actual SAP application. Its estimated that over 70% of IT resources are allocated toward keeping the hardware running and backed up, leaving little to improve business efficiency or gain competitive advantage. This effort and cost is further exacerbated by SAP’s recommendation to refresh these landscapes every 3-5 years, or whenever there is an upgrade. With the advent of virtualization, these headaches go away.
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Virtualization is a technology that logically groups servers together and then dynamically allocates the computing power as needed to maximize prioritized application performance. It changes the traditional paradigm from over-sizing computing hardware to handle peak SAP performance, to right-sizing the hardware to current SAP performance. As application usage increases, more computing power is applied, thereby guaranteeing optimal user interaction, even if one server fails. The same paradigm holds also for storage, enabling both improved access, as well as disaster recovery.
The Advantages of Cloud Computing
By leveraging the unused computing power held across your company’s datacenter, laptops and desktops, and even selected external hosting environments, the company maximizes its hardware and software investment, guarantees service levels, secures applications against unauthorized access, and offers disaster recovery options. As hardware is refreshed, it can be incrementally added into the cloud without any adverse performance impact.
Experience Matters
DataXstream has been working in virtualization since 2002, and converted its own SAP datacenter in 2004. Now a proud reseller of VMware, the worlds largest dedicated virtualization manufacturer, as well as Dell computer servers and storage, we have several years of experience helping organizations stage and optimize their SAP hardware landscapes. Through this experience, the company has built a streamlined solution to formulate the right hardware and networking configuration needed to run SAP within a customer’s unique environment; to virtualize it for increased savings; and then deploy and tune to optimize performance.
About VMware: VMware, the global leader in Business Infrastructure Virtualization, delivers proven virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud.
