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SAP customers around the world are leveraging virtualization to optimize their SAP
landscapes and address IT challenges. These customers are:
• Virtualizing SAP and other mission-critical applications as part of a private
cloud strategy.
• Deploying new SAP landscapes as first enterprise resource planning (ERP)
application, additional SAP applications, or migrations from existing applications
such as ERP, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Customer Relationship
Management (CRM), or data warehouse.
• Migrating from legacy server and OS platforms such as UNIX, AIX, HP/UX, or
Solaris-based servers with RISC processors to more cost-effective servers based
on open source Linux and x86 processor architectures.
• Driving down application infrastructure costs by consolidating and centralizing
resources across lines of business.
Customers who virtualize SAP benefit from improved performance, lower TCO, and
improved application availability.
VCE, in partnership with SAP, is leading the way with virtual SAP landscapes. Vblock™
Systems offer a factory-integrated, enterprise-class IT infrastructure that streamlines
acquisition, deployment, and operations. Strict design control enables Vblock systems
to meet specific performance and availability levels so that IT can easily meet busi-
ness requirements as environments scale. Customers who previously spent 70% or
more of their IT budgets and staff time on maintaining infrastructure now can focus
on more strategic efforts that add more value to the business.
SAP ON VBLOCK SYSTEMS
Virtualization is transforming the cost model in
mission-critical application environments.
• FASTER Deployments —
On your dock within 30 days
from PO
• HIGHER Availability —98%
reduction in server downtime
• LOWER OpEX — 63% reduction
in cost per user
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Why Vblock Systems are Ideal for SAP DeploymentsThe SAP Applications Performance
Standard (SAPS) provides a unit of
measurement used to define the perfor-
mance requirements of each SAP system
configuration. There are more than 15
SAP landscapes or application modules.
Typically eight servers are required for
each but this can vary based on the size
of applications and the user base.
Because they are modular, highly
scalable infrastructure, Vblock systems
fit the wide array of SAP deployment
requirements ranging from smaller
implementations to large, mission critical
production systems. VCE has validated
a maximum number of 7.1 million SAPS
on a Vblock System 700.
Another factor to consider in a Vblock
System deployment for SAP is business
continuity. Downtime can have a very
negative impact on business operations
and a company’s success. This makes
high availability and disaster recovery
crucial in SAP environments. Vblock
Systems provide a variety of VCE and
partner solutions for high availability
and fast operational recovery of SAP
applications from any infrastructure
component failure.
SAP applications are large and complex,
typically requiring a lot of manual labor
to deploy and support. This leads to
high operational costs. With Vblock
Systems, however, this complexity is
greatly reduced, operational efficiencies
are improved, and TCO is lowered.
Vblock System Benefits:
• Simplified provisioning of SAP
instances on Vblock System servers
is possible with the use of service
profile templates and an automa-
tion engine specifically designed for
Vblock Systems.
• SAP developers and testers can set
up new application servers and cloud
infrastructures quickly with a range of
Web-based self-service catalogs and
orchestration tools certified to run on
Vblock systems — such as VMware
vCloud Director and Cisco Intelligent
Automation for Cloud — which hide
the complexity of provisioning pro-
cesses from end users.
• The Vblock System Solution for SAP
Application Server Elasticity enables
IT organizations to better manage and
allocate their converged compute,
network, and storage resources.
• The Vblock System Solution for SAP
Mobility enables IT organizations
and service providers to migrate SAP
applications and resources between
Vblock Systems both locally and in
geographically separated data centers
in an automated, transparent, and
non-disruptive way.
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Vblock Systems include:
• Vblock™ Series 300 an agile and
efficient data center-class system
that features modular, scalable perfor-
mance. It has a high-density, compact
fabric switch; integrated fabric-based
blade servers; and best-in-class uni-
fied storage. There are also a range of
configurations customers can choose
from to get the performance and ca-
pacity they need to meet SAP require-
ments. Simplified provisioning allows
IT professionals to marshal resources
quickly and efficiently.
• Vblock™ Series 700 an enterprise-
class, mission-critical system for the
world’s most demanding workloads
and service levels. It features the best
director-class fabric switch, most ad-
vanced fabric-based blade server, and
most trusted storage platform.
Due to the typical size and mission-
critical nature of SAP applications, most
have been deployed on the Vblock Se-
ries 700. The Vblock Series 300 may be
well suited for SAP applications in small
and medium-sized organizations and for
a testing and development environment.
Case Studies for SAP on Vblock SystemsAn aerospace company with 600
mission-critical SAP enterprise applica-
tions was using manual processes to
back up data onto tape and then driving
the tapes to a disaster recovery site in
another state. Compute and virtualized
resources could not be backed up. After
exploring several solutions, the company
decided to deploy a Vblock System
700, which enables the company to
back up not only data but compute and
virtualization environments as well to
dramatically decrease business risk. The
organizations Recovery Time Objective
(RTO) is expected to drop from four
days to between 30 and 90 minutes. Its
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) will be
reduced from hours to milliseconds due
to the asynchronous replication capa-
bility provided by EMC RecoverPoint
software.
A major apparel manufacturer with
global operations chose a variety of SAP
applications. Seeking to avoid the com-
plexity of a multivendor server, storage,
and network environment and seek-
ing an SAP platform that could scale
flexibly and efficiently to meet busi-
ness requirements, the company chose
Vblock Series 700 configured with flash
drives to support maximum I/O perfor-
mance. A second Vblock Series 700 was
configured with Fibre Channel storage
for failover, development and quality
assurance. “The integration of compute,
network, and storage into a single stack
is transforming the way we as IT profes-
sionals view our SAP landscape,” said
the CEO, who reports significant new
efficiencies and operational cost savings.
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“ The integration of compute,
network, and storage
into a single stack is
transforming the way we
as IT professionals view
our SAP environment.”
—CEO of a major apparel
manufacturer
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