Virtualize your SAP?

Only if you want to save money, Time, and your companies future

Presenter: Christopher M. Carter Of CCI

www.ccierp.com

ccarter@ccierp.com

SAP deployments can generate significant server sprawl due to its tiered architecture andthe need to provision separate systems for development, quality assurance/test andproduction 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 poweringa server will soon exceed its acquisition cost.SAP customers use virtualization to reduce their hardware and energy costs and dramatically increase hardware utilization

Easing SAP Solutions Upgrades and Platform MigrationsMany SAP solutions deployments will undergo a major upgrade over the next year or two as SAPends support for SAP R/3 Enterprise and SAP R/3 4.6c 32-bit applications. Many of these companies areusing 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 sourceoperating systems.Problems with the complex upgrade process can have a significant business impact. Upgradesmust be thoroughly planned and tested to ensure the smoothest and least disruptive transitionpossible. 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 theupgrade project is the setup of environments. The initial setup is one part of this task, but ad-hocdeployments 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 projectincludes a migration or an operating system upgrade. In a traditional native deployment, this processtends to be time consuming and can cause expensive project delays, particularly if available hardwareis not sufficient. “Configuration drift” may also become a source of problems for the non-SAP aspectsof the upgrade (OS, OS patches, database binaries, etc.).

Organizations need to

find ways to make their

IT budgets go farther

than ever.

Virtualization 1.0

• Closed architecture• Expensive• Complex• Heavy weight• Needs a driver

Next Gen Virtualization

• Open• Virtually free• Radically simple• Lightweight• Designed for ubiquity

Meeting SLAs for Availability, Application Performance,and Disaster RecoverySAP application owners, basis administrators and the IT staff are on the hook to meet Service Level Agreements that guarantee availability and performance targets for solutionusers. Virtualization works alongside SAP-provided functionality to deliver infrastructure and application performance and high availability for critical businessfunctions.

Data center

Evolution

Data center

Evolution

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 – Dynamic Datacenter

Some tier 1 applications

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Mobility

Phase 3 – Agility

Test/Dev

Encapsulation

Consolidation

“Craplications”

Phase 2 – Consolidate

Barriers to adoption

??

Cost prohibitive

Complexity

Mission critical readiness

Performance

Traditional concerns…

Platforms supportedVendor Lock In

Physical requirement

Windows

LinuxWeb tier servers

Test/DevDBMS

Physical boxes

ProductionTier 1 appsCustom Apps

86% Unvirtualized86% Unvirtualized

OLTP

Infrastructure Servers

Etc…

Dynamic Workload Streaming (Provisioning)

Networkstorage

Provisioning Server(streaming service)

Silo One

Silo Two

Silo Three

A

B

Reducing Server CountSolution: Virtualize the server

3-4x more users per server

16 GB RAMTwo Quad-core processors4 Virtual Machines (4 GB RAM, 2 Virtual CPU’s for each)

Physical Server4 GB RAMTwo processors

Before – 100 usersAfter – 300+ users

AA

A

A

A

Citrix, Microsoft & VMware – Three Horse Race

• VMware is feature-

rich, but expensive

& complex

• Hyper-V is

affordable, but lacks

key functionality

• Citrix is enterprise-

ready and priced for

ubiquity

Enterprise Ready

Val

ue

Citrix & Microsoft – Collaboration

Situation• Citrix & Microsoft are partners

• Hyper-V is new but incomplete

• XenServer is enterprise-ready

• XenServer & Hyper-V are complimentary

Strategy

• Collaborate first, compete as last resort

• Position XenServer as enterprise-ready for :

• HA/DR

• Critical workloads

• XenApp or XenDesktop

• Mixed Windows & Linux environment

• Dynamic application delivery (provisioning server workloads)

Mission-critical

Linux

Windows

Business Continuity

Business Continuity

With automated high availability integrated disaster recovery, and tools

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

business running.

Dynamic Data CentersWhere and What

• Heterogeneous server/storage data centers with complex IT environments

• Organizations struggling to manage server infrastructure proactively

• Organizations that want to treat application delivery as a service

• Data centers that need to scale computing resources up and down based on demand

Benefits

• Rapid, on demand provisioning of servers and applications

• Scalable, efficient management of server infrastructure

• End-to-end tools for desktop, application and server virtualization

• CCI makes pricing and packaging options to make server virtualization feasible across the enterprise

DynamicDatacenters

• 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 for SAP

• Build on the scalable and open support

• Unparalleled performance, economics, and ease-of-use

Key Customer Benefits

YOUR OPTIONS

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XenServer with XenAppReduce server count up to 75%...

Enhance Agility…

Increase Availability…

…without compromising performance

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 production environments running on VMware® ESX, the first and so far only virtualization platform to earn this distinction.

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 production environments running on VMware® ESX, the first and so far only virtualization platform to earn this distinction.

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 environments •Increase 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

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 on SAP 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.

Recommendations

Citrix & VMware

Enterprise Features VMware XenServer

Multi-server management

Role-based administration

Auto-placement of VMs (load balancing)

Live migration High Availability DR support Optimized for XenApp

Workload streaming (provisioning

Advanced storage integration

Proxy Server Backups

Workload streaming (provisioning)

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, we

support you through POC, to purchases to implementation and full testing before ANY go-live.

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