Virtualization Virtualization changes the way system hardware is used. Concept of virtualization has started in late 60 s and early 70 s. Today virtualization technology has progressed to see that most of the system physical resources can be shared. Virtualization & SAP It is possible to build powerful business process automation systems with today's technology by combining the advanced features in products from SAP and Virtualization products available in the market. The fleibility and powerful management features available in virtualization products helps SAP to achieve the kind of seamless and efficient network of interrelated processes like usage of CPU and Memory based on application performance needs, which is difficult to achieve in a non virtualized environment. As the virtualization technology advanced, SAP developed SAP LVM (SAP Landscape Virtualization Management) as add-on to SAP NetWeaver 7.3 in 2013 to simplify some of the SAP application related activities based out of virtualization. Below are some of the companies who have deployed virtualization solutions for their SAP landscape [Source: SAP] SAP Labs Mercedes-AMG EGIS LHI Leasing Revlon Solution Benefits SAP solutions-based development, test, training, and production environments can cost less using virtualization solutions and be more productive than within a purely physical infrastructure. The full range of virtualization benefits can be applied to any SAP deployments such as ECC, BI, CRM, etc. Major advantages of adapting virtualization are easy server consolidation, business process automation and simplified data center operations. Virtualization technologies such as VMware vmotion, VMware High Availability, and VMware vcenter Site Recovery Manager help to increase the availability of SAP applications. VMware allows dynamically rebalance system resources for applications while increasing resource utilization across SAP landscape.
Reasons To Run SAP on Virtualization Technology 1. Provides safe platform for easy upgrade SAP solutions 2. simplify the transition to 64-bit environments 3. Increase availability of all environments at lower cost 4. Create cost-effective disaster recovery systems 5. Quickly deploy cost effective new SAP solutions-based environments for development and test. 6. Moving or create SAP resources(etra application server or a new testing server) with business priorities with ease 7. Decrease SAP data center costs for space, energy, cooling, hardware, and labor 8. Increase SAP data center utilization, fleibility, availability, and agility 9. Increase uptime during planned maintenance 10. Realize immediate ROI Virtualization and SAP HANA SAP HANA combines database and application platform capabilities. By performing analytics in real-time along with the business transactions SAP HANA drastically reduces the time for analysis which helps in making quicker business decisions. SAP HANA s core performance improvement is because of the in-memory database. The hardware requirement is normally very demanding in this case, which further increases the cost of the server. With virtualization two or more virtual systems of SAP HANA for development and testing can be installed on a single physical system which reduces the installation & operational costs. Ease of assigning dedicated CPU and memory resources to specific databases is possible in virtualization making it possible to power systems on need basis. Virtualization supports both eisting SAP HANA infrastructure or a SAP HANA tailored data center integration validated hardware configuration. Some of the major goals that virtualization can help you reach are: Reduce IT infrastructure costs with higher physical resource utilization Fleibility and responsiveness through: - Dynamic adjustment of virtual resources - Application isolation - Application and VM provisioning with cloning Make Management faster and easier due to a reduced number of servers to manage Getting Cloud ready
SAP Landscape Virtualization Management SAP Landscape Virtualization Management is a powerful management tool that helps businesses reduce their total cost of operations, and enhance their fleibility and business agility Using virtualization deployment and management of SAP systems can be simplified. SAP Landscape Virtualization Management helps in reducing the IT operational costs for managing SAP landscapes by utilizing the system hardware to the maimum and reducing human effort in some SAP tasks. Business Benefits: Greater operational continuity through centralized management, visibility and control of your entire SAP landscape using a single console Reduced time, effort and cost to manage and operate your SAP systems through automation of time-consuming basis administration tasks Increased operational agility through acceleration of application life-cycle management operations and fast response to workload fluctuations Sustainable IT (reduced energy consumption and minimized e-waste) through optimized use of computing resources Standard edition Enterprise edition Start/Stop/Relocate Mass Operations on Systems/Hosts Validations Task Scheduler Service/Host Detection Basic Dashboards Virtualization Integration Custom Operations/Hooks/Services Custom Links Fine-Granular Access Control Inter-System Dependencies Application Server Provisioning Automatic Capacity Management Advanced Dashboards Landscape Visualization
Landscape Reporting Performance Monitoring Detect Multi-Node Databases Custom Notifications/Validations Custom Tabs Standalone PCA Custom Provisioning VM-based clone/copy/refresh Storage-based clone/copy/refresh Integration with nzdm Integration with SAP Solution Manager SAP Landscape Virtualization Management software is a licensed product and the product is available in two editions: Standard edition and Enterprise edition. Standard edition is available to all SAP customers with at least one active SAP application license and has no license cost associated with it. The customer will have to obtain a license for Standard Edition but, do not have to incur any additional cost.. Enterprise edition is available to all SAP customers as a separately licensed product. Please contact your SAP Account Eecutive or Sales Representative for further details.
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