1. The Next Generation SAP Data Center
Christoph Reisbeck
Director Global SAP Alliances
VMware Global, Inc.

2. World’s leading provider of virtualization solutions
VMware: Who We Are
World’s leading provider
of virtualization solutions
120,000+ customers worldwide
All sizes and industries; 100% of Fortune 100
Vision: transform computing through virtualization
Products: reliable, award-winning, most-deployed
Analysts: up to 5-year technology lead

3. Contents SAP and VMware Infrastructure Use Cases for SAP
Customer Examples
Deployment Guidelines
Summary
What does this broad support for virtualization mean for the customer?
It means greater innovation – if the resources of many companies are harnessed to develop and optimize solutions for virtualization
It means that adoption barriers are disappearing fast.
And means that virtualization will be pervasive in only a few years time. 3

4. Key IT Obstacles What’s Increasing What’s Decreasing Complexity
1990
1997
2007
# components
Numbers of components which need to be procured, provisioned, managed, secured, etc.
Complexity 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
1980
1990
2007
Server utilization rates*
Efficiency
Pressures
Resources
Comply with security and regulatory requirements
Do more with less
Less able to add new functionality or improve IT service levels
*Source: IBM Scorpion, VMware

5. Typical Utilization is <15%
Operational Cost Challenges
Typical Utilization is <15%
One Application = One Server 5

6. The Solution: Virtualization
“Enterprise SOA with SAP NetWeaver and Virtualization from VMware deliver the most flexible, reliable and cost effective business agility solution for the customers’ business needs today.”
Roland Wartenberg
Chief Virtualization Strategist
SAP Labs, Palo Alto
Christoph: “Roland, one of the most important strategic IT investment areas these days is Virtualization in all kinds of forms. Many Analysts are updating their positive quotes on expected adoption rates to even more positive ones. SAP itself has done significant investments in the area of virtualization and you are one of the drivers behind it. Please could you elaborate a little bit about SAPs virtualization activities?
Roland: “SAP has started a significant investment towards virtualization. [elaborate]

7. Hypervisor (ESX Server)
The Solution: Virtualization
VMware decouples software from hardware.
SAP
Operating System
Operating System
Hypervisor (ESX Server)

8. X Virtualization: Fundamentally Better Automated Resource Assurance
Increased Availability
On Demand Capacity
Non-disruptive Scaling
Flexible, Reconfigurable
Dynamic Balancing
Continuous Optimization
No stop and restart of
SAP applications
Automated
Across Applications
And across SAP deployments X

9. From Consolidation to Strategic Architecture
Software
Lifecycle
Provisioning
Business
Continuity
Desktop
Management
Resource
Management
Service Level
Management
Change
Management
Application
Availability
VMware Infrastructure
Consolidation & Containment

10. SAPs SOA Strategy
Process standardization and innovation on one platform.
End-to-end solution operations processes, support, best practices & training.
Continuous Innovation with Enhancement Packages ü
New user experiences
New functionality
New enterprise services
New NetWeaver capabilities, …
SAP Business Suite
SAP NetWeaver Composition
SAP NetWeaver Composition
SAP NetWeaver Composition
other
Web
3rd party
custom built
SRM
PLM
SCM
ERP
CRM
legacy
business partner
other
SAP NetWeaver Integration
SAP NetWeaver Integration
other
VMware Infrastructure

11. 12-Dec-2007: SAP Support for VMware
[….]
Christoph: “Roland, one of the most important strategic IT investment areas these days is Virtualization in all kinds of forms. Many Analysts are updating their positive quotes on expected adoption rates to even more positive ones. SAP itself has done significant investments in the area of virtualization and you are one of the drivers behind it. Please could you elaborate a little bit about SAPs virtualization activities?
Roland: “SAP has started a significant investment towards virtualization. [elaborate]
Production Support for Windows and Linux
VMware now a SAP Global Technology Partner

12. VMware and SAP
VMware Virtualization Competency Center for SAP at AddOn premises in Walldorf
Demos and Sales Presentations
Trainings and Customer Seminars
Virtualization Assessments and POCs
VMware member in SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto and Tokyo
Development of SAP on VMware solutions
VMware is member of SAPs Enterprise Virtualization Community
VMware runs SAPs ‘Center of Excellence’ infrastructure in Walldorf

13. SAP on VMware Training available

14. VMware Solutions for SAP
Integration of VC into SAP ACC
Presented as technical pre view during several presentations at SAP TechEd Las Vegas and Berlin
VMware used for Demo deployments at SAP events
Broad use within SAP Linux development
VMware Virtual Appliances for SAP Solutions
SAP NetWeaver CE
SAP NetWeaver Test Drive on Linux
SAP NetWeaver IDES on Linux
Available for download from service.sap.com (S-User required)

15. Application’s Performance Requirements
Powerful Enough for SAP Applications
CURRENT
100,000
9 Gb/s
64 GB per VM
4 VCPUs
FUTURE
200,000+
40 Gb/s
256 GB per VM
8 VCPUs
PAST
CPU
1 to 2 CPUs
Memory
< 4 MB at peak
% of Applications
Network
< 300 Kb/s
IOPS
< 100 at peak
Application’s Performance Requirements

16. Evolution of VI Performance for Large Apps
100%
Mission
Critical
Apps
ESX 2.x
VI 3.0
20-30% Overhead
2-way SMP Scaling
16 GB VM RAM
16 core support
64GB Phys RAM
800mbits
Gen-1 HW Virt
VI 3.5
10-20% Overhead
4-way VSMP Scaling
64-bit OS Support
64GB VM RAM
64 core hosts
256GB Phys RAM
100,000 IOPS
9 Gigabits
Gen-2 HW Virt
Future
2-10% Overhead
8-way VSMP Scaling
256GB VM RAM
128 core scaling
512GBPhys RAM
200,000 IOPS
40 Gigabits
512 VMs
30-60% Overhead
2-way SMP
3.6 GB VM RAM
16 CPU support
4 CPU scaling
64GB Phys RAM
<10,000 IOPS
380mbits max
General
Population Of
Apps
Ability to satisfy Performance Demands

17. SAP and VMware: Support Status
Full support for Production Environments
Windows and Linux
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 and 7.1 (SAP Kernel 7.10)
SAP NetWeaver 2004 (SAP Kernel 6.40)
Lower SAP versions supportable during an SAP upgrade
32- / 64-bit SAP Systems
64-bit SAP systems are fully supported
32-bit SAP systems are supportable during an SAP upgrade
All SAP certified Hardware is supported
SAP removed requirement to certify servers specifically with VMware due to stability and performance
Server certificates are no longer necessary

18. The Dynamic SAP Datacenter
SAP ERP Resource Pool
SAP BI Resource Pool
Test & Dev Resource Pool
SAP HR System
SAP ERP Cluster
SAP Business Intelligence
SAP Test & Development Systems
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
SAP HR
SAP ERP
SAP ERP
SAP CRM
SAP BI
Test & Dev
Test & Dev
Application
Servers
Application
Servers
Application
Servers
Application
Servers
Application
Servers
Application
Servers
Application
Servers
Windows
64 Bit
SuSE Linux
Red Hat
Linux
Windows
2003 Server
Red Hat
Linux 64 Bit
Windows
64 Bit
Windows
2000 Server
VMware Infrastructure
VMware® VMotion™ Technology
VMware ESX Server
VMware ESX Server
Storage
Network
Servers

19. Contents SAP and VMware Infrastructure Use Cases for SAP
Customer Examples
Deployment Guidelines
Summary
What does this broad support for virtualization mean for the customer?
It means greater innovation – if the resources of many companies are harnessed to develop and optimize solutions for virtualization
It means that adoption barriers are disappearing fast.
And means that virtualization will be pervasive in only a few years time. 19

20. SAP Customer Pain Points
Expensive & Complex
Business Continuity Solutions
Time-Consuming SAP Upgrades
High
Operational Costs
SAP Customer Pain Points
Addressing
Compliance

21. Core VMware Use Cases For SAP Solutions
Consolidation and Containment
Utilization & Serviceability
SAP Upgrades and Fast Deployments
Disaster Recovery
High-Availability & Fault Tolerance
[What is it?] VMware Infrastructure is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing IT environments through virtualization – from the desktop to the data center.
Focus on the keywords:
Suite
Optimizing and managing
From the desktop to the datacenter
[What are the unique differentiators?]: VMware Infrastructure is the only production-ready virtualization suite
Proven to deliver results at more than 20,000 customers of all sizes in the broadest range of use cases – development and testing, server consolidation and containment, disaster recovery and business continuity, enterprise desktop management, and rapid infrastructure provisioning.
Fully optimized, rigorously tested and certified for the widest range of hardware, operating systems and software applications allowing for enterprise-wide standardization independent of operating systems and hardware.
Delivering built-in management, distributed resource optimization, application availability, operational automation and security, unlike other products focused on single server partitioning.

22. Use Case 1: Consolidation and Containment
Lower Cost of Ownership, lower management overhead
~5:1 consolidation ratio for SAP customers (numbers vary greatly)
Fast kick-start of new projects – start before new hardware has arrived!
[What is it?] VMware Infrastructure is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing IT environments through virtualization – from the desktop to the data center.
Focus on the keywords:
Suite
Optimizing and managing
From the desktop to the datacenter
[What are the unique differentiators?]: VMware Infrastructure is the only production-ready virtualization suite
Proven to deliver results at more than 20,000 customers of all sizes in the broadest range of use cases – development and testing, server consolidation and containment, disaster recovery and business continuity, enterprise desktop management, and rapid infrastructure provisioning.
Fully optimized, rigorously tested and certified for the widest range of hardware, operating systems and software applications allowing for enterprise-wide standardization independent of operating systems and hardware.
Delivering built-in management, distributed resource optimization, application availability, operational automation and security, unlike other products focused on single server partitioning.

23. Servers, Storage, Networking
Use Case 1: Consolidation and Containment
Aggregate collections of disparate hardware resources into unified logical resource pools
Failed server mean less resources not a failed application
Dedicated (virtual) infrastructure for each business unit; central IT retains control over hardware
Delegation of resource and virtual machine management down to the business unit
Management of an entire SOA application stack as a single entity
Business Unit
Department A
Department B
Resource Pool 2
Resource Pool 3
CPU 36GHz, Mem 58GB
Priority HIGH
CPU 12GHz, Mem 22GB
Priority LOW
Aggregate Resources
CPU 48 GHz, Mem 80GB
Servers, Storage, Networking

24. Use Case 2: Increasing Utilization & Serviceability
VMotion
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vega7066
SAP CI
Oracle
SAP CI
Oracle
SAP CI
Oracle
Windows
Srvr 2003
Windows
Srvr 2003
Windows
Srvr 2003
SOURCE
TARGET
“saplicense –get” returns SAME hardware key! (License specific to the virtual machine, NOT to ESX Server
SAP licenses per SAP user irrespective of underlying hardware. Hence, there are no license limitations

25. Use Case 2: Increasing Utilization & Serviceability
Dynamic and intelligent allocation of hardware resources with VMware DRS to ensure optimal alignment between business and IT
What is it?
Dynamic balancing of computing resources across SAP resource pools
Intelligent resource allocation based on pre-defined rules
Business Demand
Customer Impact
Align SAP resources with business priorities
Operational simplicity; dramatically increase system administrator productivity
Add hardware dynamically to avoid over-provisioning to peak load
Resource Pool

26. Watch the Demonstration: Distributed Resource Scheduling

27. Use Case 2: Increasing Utilization & Serviceability
Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Reduce data center power consumption by having DRS consolidate loads during non-peak hours and powering down the inactive hosts
The goal is to minimize total power consumption while still providing enough resource capacity to satisfy total resource demand, plus some user-specifiable amount of reserve capacity
Provides customers with significant cost savings from reduced power consumption
Business Demand
Power Off
Resource Pool

28. Watch the Demonstration: Distributed Power Management

29. Use Case 3: Upgrades and Fast Deployments

30. Use Case 3: Upgrades and Fast Deployments
Faster SAP Upgrades with more time and opportunity for test runs
Multiple snapshots can preserve VM status at different points in time
Very fast reversion to previous points in time
Schematic SAP Upgrade using virtualization: X
Problem occurs/
Retest needed
PREPARE
A.vmdk
Snapshots
Stored in Virtual Disk
UPTIME
DOWNTIME
POST
KEY MESSAGE: SAP Hosting manages the SAP on SAP infrastructure globally and hosts more than 330 additional customers around the Globe in 5 main data centers.
VMware virtualization is used partly in the SAP training department and gives them the flexibility to serve their customers faster and better e.g. to deploy and change training systems automatically on demand by the requesting training instructor. This led into an completely automated process which saves sgnificantly on labor costs.

31. Use Case 3: Upgrades and Fast Deployments
Faster SAP Deployment through VMware Templates
CREATE VM
INSTALL GUEST OS
(Windows Server)
PATCH GUEST OS
INSTALL SAP ECC 6.0
SID = TEM
Create
Template
(in back- ground)
Install SAP in VM
DEPLOY VM
FROM TEMPLATE
(new hostname)
RUN SAP SYSTEM
COPY SID = DEV
KEY MESSAGE: SAP Hosting manages the SAP on SAP infrastructure globally and hosts more than 330 additional customers around the Globe in 5 main data centers.
VMware virtualization is used partly in the SAP training department and gives them the flexibility to serve their customers faster and better e.g. to deploy and change training systems automatically on demand by the requesting training instructor. This led into an completely automated process which saves sgnificantly on labor costs.
Deploy new SAP System from Template

32. Use Case 4: DR - Sources of downtime
Disasters .5%
Flood, fire, earthquake
Power outage
Contaminated building
Planned outages 80%
Firmware updates
Planned hardware maintenance
Backups
Unplanned Downtime 19.5%
Hardware failure
Software failure
Human error 32

33. Use Case 4: DR - Eliminating Planned Downtime
Use VMotion to evacuate hosts
Move running applications to other servers without disruption
Perform maintenance at any time of day
Automate with DRS maintenance mode
Automates moving virtual machines to other hosts
Automates re-balancing after maintenance complete
VMotion
VMotion
DRS migrates running virtual machines to other hosts
Activate Maintenance Mode for physical host
Shut down idle host and perform maintenance
Restart host; DRS automatically rebalances workloads

34. Use Case 4: DR - Eliminating Planned Downtime
Storage independent migration of virtual machine disks with Storage VMotion
Zero downtime to virtual machines
LUN independent
Supported for Fibre Channel SANs
Minimizes planned downtime due to storage
Complete planned downtime management solution across servers and storage with VMotion and Storage VMotion

35. Use Case 4: DR - Dealing With Unplanned Downtime
Automating Recovery from Server Failure
Physical Infrastructure
Rebuild server = Slow recovery
Redundant standby servers = Expensive
Implement clustering software = Costly and complex
VMware Infrastructure
Automates virtual machine restart
Independent of OS and applications
VMware Infrastructure
2-way System
2-way System
4-way System
8-way System 35

36. Install backup/ restore agent Start “Single-step automatic recovery”
Use Case 4: Disaster Recovery Challenges
Require identical hardware for recovery
Because of hardware dependencies
Double costs, increases complexity
Site A
Site B
Idle hardware
Need standby hardware for faster RTO
Repurposing servers at time of disaster is labor-intensive and time-consuming
Recovery Target
Slow, complex recovery process
Different solutions for different availability tiers
Separate procedures for system and data disks
Multi-step recovery processes
Configure hardware
Install OS
Config OS
Install backup/ restore agent
Start “Single-step automatic recovery” 36

37. Use Case 4: Disaster Recovery Management
Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware Infrastructure to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation X
PrimarySite
Secondary Site
Key virtualization advantages for disaster recovery:
Encapsulates OS + application
recovery site is hardware- independent
virtual machines are easily restarted on DR site
Improved DR Testing
easy spin-off of DR VMs for effective testing
A.vmdk
A.vmdk
Native or third-party
replication

38. Use Case 4: DR - VMware SRM Recovery Plan
SRM allows the ability to create detailed recovery plans specific to your datacenter

39. Use Case 4: DR - SRM Testing and Audit Functionality
Ability to monitor what is working and what is not.
Test as often as needed.

40. Core SAP Use Case 5: Disaster Recovery Management
Testing the DR framework:
Protection group with two SAP VMs on two servers replicated to DR site
DR site utilized
Start DR test plan – replicated SAP VMs started in isolated network
Test of recovered SAP applications
Cleanup
Site Recovery
Manager:
NetApp Adapter
FC or iSCSI
SnapMirror
Rep Data Volume 1
Data Volume 1
DR Test
FlexClone DR
Test
Primary
Site DR
Site
"FlexClone" created
from Snaphot copy
Data Volume 2
Data Volume 3 40

41. Watch the Demonstration: Site Recovery Management

42. Automated & Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery for SAP Implementations VMware® Site Recovery Manager and NetApp Storage and Data Management Solutions

43. Core SAP Use Case 6: Out-of-the-box High Availability
Virtual Machines
Clustering for all environments
High-Availability without expensive/complex cluster software in all environments
No project down-time due to server failure
Cost effective High Availabilty for SAP test environments, not just production
ESX Server X
ESX Server
Physical Servers
Storage
[What is it?] VMware Infrastructure is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing IT environments through virtualization – from the desktop to the data center.
Focus on the keywords:
Suite
Optimizing and managing
From the desktop to the datacenter
[What are the unique differentiators?]: VMware Infrastructure is the only production-ready virtualization suite
Proven to deliver results at more than 20,000 customers of all sizes in the broadest range of use cases – development and testing, server consolidation and containment, disaster recovery and business continuity, enterprise desktop management, and rapid infrastructure provisioning.
Fully optimized, rigorously tested and certified for the widest range of hardware, operating systems and software applications allowing for enterprise-wide standardization independent of operating systems and hardware.
Delivering built-in management, distributed resource optimization, application availability, operational automation and security, unlike other products focused on single server partitioning.
A.vmdk

44. Roadmap Example: VMware HA
App OS
App OS HA HA
VMware ESX
VMware ESX

45. Roadmap Example: VMware HA
App OS
App OS HA HA
VMware ESX
VMware ESX X

46. X X X Roadmap Example: VMware HA HA HA App OS App OS VMware ESX

47. X Roadmap Example: VMware HA VMs Reboot App OS App OS VMware ESX

48. X Roadmap: VMware Fault Tolerance FT App OS App OS VMware ESX

49. X Roadmap: VMware Fault Tolerance No Reboot – Seamless Cutover App OS
VMware ESX
VMware ESX X

50. Roadmap: From Virtual Infrastructure to VDC-OS
Linux
Windows
Future …
Management vServices
Application vServices
Availability
Security
Scalability
Infrastructure vServices
Cloud vServices
vCompute
vStorage
vNetwork
Datacenter
Infrastructure
Off-Premise Cloud

51. Moving forward: Industrialization of IT
C. Benz & Söhne, 1910: in the record year 1900, 430 employees assemble 603 Benz-Automobiles*1
VW Zwickau, 2002: 650 robots welding car bodies for Golf and Passat*2

52. Contents SAP and VMware Infrastructure Use Cases for SAP
Customer Examples
Deployment Guidelines
Summary
What does this broad support for virtualization mean for the customer?
It means greater innovation – if the resources of many companies are harnessed to develop and optimize solutions for virtualization
It means that adoption barriers are disappearing fast.
And means that virtualization will be pervasive in only a few years time. 52

53. SAP Hosting: Using Virtualization to Serve a Huge User Base
The Challenge SAP Hosting manages SAP-on-SAP infrastructure globally and hosts more than 330 additional customers around the Globe in 5 main data centers. Need to manage SAP systems cost-effectively and provide excellent service levels.
The Solution
VMware virtualization results in lowers costs, enables development and and automation of user services, provides better hardware and software lifecycle management, and improves production and capacity planning across a more unified infrastructure.
“VMware Infrastructure has many benefits for a hosted environment such as ours that offers software as a service. We’ve been able to automate internal business processes and increase service levels to internal customers. In addition, we have reduced costs with consolidation and automation of system deployment, as well greatly reduced the required hardware for internal training and test systems.. ”
Markus Winter Head of Strategic Projects SAP Hosting
virtual machines/~300 ESX Server hosts/~200 TB storage on Linux and Windows
• Flexible resource assignments for training department
Great fit for offshore strategy
Flexible internal server provisioning
Increase customer services with less effort

54. SAP ERP Upgrade The Challenge The Solution Saved 30% on hardware costs
EFI employs several SAP modules to build integrated business solutions and services. EFI planned to upgrade its SAP modules and at the same time move from a proprietary hardware and software environment to industry-standard x86-based hardware and Red Hat Linux operating system.
The Solution
EFI used VMware® Infrastructure 3 to minimize the complexity and reduce the cost of developing, testing, and deploying its upgrade to this multi-tiered environment.
“…our developers have the resources they need, when they need them, and we’ve really mitigated ‘budget creep.’ That flexibility has to do with the functionality and responsiveness of VMware products, which enables us to serve our customer better and ultimately to save my company money.”
Dave Swan
Senior Manager, IS&T Server Operations
EFI
Saved 30% on hardware costs
Reduced energy costs by one-third
Avoided project budget creep
Cut off-hours workload in half

55. Delivering on Uptime Requirements
The Challenge
Checkpoint needed to create a more robust and flexible SAP solutions based environment. The company was also trying to reduce ongoing maintenance overhead and ensure reliable IT infrastructure for remote sites. In addition to all of that, it needed to provide enhanced DR capabilities.
The Solution
VMware Infrastructure 3 accelerated provisioning, simplified management and improved disaster recovery by providing a more robust and scalable platform for Checkpoint’s SAP software deployment.
“VMware is certainly our platform of choice; in terms of reliability we have a very robust infrastructure which is currently delivering 99.99% uptime for our critical systems. As far as manageability is concerned, running SAP on VMware means our IT department spends far less time on mundane maintenance tasks and can focus on more strategic projects.
Michael Nogger IT Operations Manager Europe Checkpoint Systems International GMBH
Resource utilization increased from 15% to 70%
Provisioning times reduced from 4-6 weeks to 1 hour
Accelerated disaster recovery at secondary site

56. SAP Upgrade in a Regulated Industry
The Challenge
Hardware supporting the SAP environment at AstraZeneca’s Plankstadt datacenter was aging and needed to be replaced. This upgrade was made more difficult by requirements for high application availability and a more efficient business continuity process, and the regulatory requirements imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
The Solution
AstraZeneca worked with AddOn Systemhaus to deploy VMware® Infrastructure 3 on HP Proliant servers. VMotion is used to achieve high availability, and virtual machine templates mean server certification can be done in less time
“…VMware Infrastructure is proving to have a lot of benefits for us. We are already using VMotion to achieve high availability and 24/7 uptime... And we’re exploring the ways virtualization can help us provide better service levels with Consolidated Backup and quicker restarts. ”
Askin Karatepe
Server and Database Administrator, AstraZeneca
10:1 server consolidation ratio
• Server deployment dropped to 30 minutes
• Reduced time and complexity of regulatory server certification process
• Expect 3-year cost savings of > €1M

57. Project Duration: 18 Months
Q3/Q4 FY06
Assessments, Sizing, and Design
Q1/Q2 FY07
Setup, Pilot, and Training
Q3/Q4 FY07
Datacenter Consolidation and Migration of SAP Systems

58. Astra Zeneca - Cost Calculation
Hard- and Software Investment
Storage Virtualization
Implementation
High Availability
TCO over 3 Years
1.4M EUR Cost Savings over 3 years

59. Contents SAP and VMware Infrastructure Use Cases for SAP
Customer Examples
Deployment Guidelines
Summary
What does this broad support for virtualization mean for the customer?
It means greater innovation – if the resources of many companies are harnessed to develop and optimize solutions for virtualization
It means that adoption barriers are disappearing fast.
And means that virtualization will be pervasive in only a few years time. 59

60. 2 – Tier vs. 3 – Tier

61. SAP General Guidelines
Work with your hardware vendors to get detailed sizing for your solution and follow the normal SAP Quick Sizer sizing process.
Scale the SAP application tier horizontally across multiple virtual machines as it is typically done on physical servers in the native world.
For larger SAP implementations (above 4 vCPU on the database) deploy SAP application instances in virtual machines, but leave the database on native hardware (CI can be moved off and clustered).

62. Sample SME Configuration

63. Sample Large Configuration

64. SAP Design and Deployment Considerations
Use smaller-size (1 or 2 vCPU) virtual machines where possible (more CPU will not necessarily make it faster).
Follow SAP rules for setting up file systems for the database; for example, distribute database files over different virtual disks.

65. SAP on VMware Guidelines
SAP Note Virtualization on Windows
SAP on VMware on Windows deployment tips: see SAP Note “VMware ESX Server 3.x config guide”
Use the latest processor generations
Use VM's with one or two virtual CPU‘s ,start small
Use a physical Host for the DB if VM resources are not sufficient
Distribute database files over different disks (as per SAP’s normal recommendations)
Don’t over commit memory to the point where VM paging starts
Use the SAP flat memory model with memory protection switched off (SAP Note ) for test and dev systems
Use large Memory Pages. (em/largepages=yes) (best for ESX 3.5)
With new Processor Generations that support RVI (AMD) or EPT (Intel) memory performance is greatly improved. This is especially important for the use of mprotect.

66. SAP on VMware Guidelines (contd)
SAP Note Virtualization on Linux
SAP on VMware on Linux deployment tips: see SAP Note
“VMware ESX Server 3.0 configuration guide”
Use the latest processor generations
Use VM's with one or two virtual CPU‘s ,start small
Use a physical Host for the DB if VM resources are not sufficient
Distribute database files over different disks (as per SAP’s normal recommendations)
Don’t over commit memory to the point where VM paging starts
Use the “map” memory model in your Instance Profile (es/implementation = map) for best memory throughput.
Use Memory „Large Pages“ for optimal Memory throughput
We HIGHLY recommend to use Novell SLES 10 UP2 and REDHAT RHEL 5.2 or higher to avoid time conflicts.
With RHEL 5.1 and higher we recommend to use the new Boot parameter “divider = 10” to reduce the amount of timer interrupts to 100 Hz.

67. Sizing
Start with small units. Smaller units are better manageable and load balancing is easier.
Use the scaling features of SAP. e.g. deploy additional Application Servers if necessary
Virtualization does fit every customer, but some times it is necessary to leave a highly utilized Database on a „native“ host and virtualize the remaining components.
SD Benchmark results are around 540 SD users for 2 vCPU with 8GB and around 800 SD users for 4 vCPU with16GB. When using the latest Processors.
We are working with the Hardware Vendors to determine sizing numbers.Please work with the Hardware Vendors to get latest numbers.

68. Ten Steps to a Successful SAP Virtualization
Understand the Vision of a Virtualized SAP Infrastructure
Virtualization Check/Assessment
Decision and Budgeting
Setup of VMware Infrastructure
Workshop/SAP-on-VMware Training
Virtualize Non-critical SAP Systems (dev, QA)
Pilot of SAP Test and Dev Environments
Virtualization of SAP Production Systems
Go-Live Check
Application Lifecycle Management
Business Process Automation

69. VMware SAP Solutions Partner Community
Who Can Help?
VMware
SAP
VMware SAP Solutions Partner Community
AddOn Systemhaus GmbH
AtosOrigin – Belgium & Netherlands
Bechtle AG & Co.KG
Bristlecone Labs
cenit AG
Computacenter
Deloitte Consulting
Didas AG
EDB
Fritz & Macziol GmbH
Genilogix
Hitachi Information Systems
Melillo Consulting
OnTrack Solutions
S&T Austria GmbH
Sysdat GmbH
T-Systems North America
TExperts, Inc.
Wharfedale Technologies

70. Contents SAP and VMware Infrastructure Use Cases for SAP
Customer Examples
Deployment Guidelines
Summary
What does this broad support for virtualization mean for the customer?
It means greater innovation – if the resources of many companies are harnessed to develop and optimize solutions for virtualization
It means that adoption barriers are disappearing fast.
And means that virtualization will be pervasive in only a few years time. 70

71. SAP & VMware: Joint Customer Successes
Forest City Enterprises
FutureFuel Chemical Company
Hitachi Information Systems
Moen
MTU Aero Engines
NuVasive
Peerless Clothing
SAP Hosting
Southwestern Great American Inc.
Tasty Baking Company
T-Systems ….
Hundreds of customers, including:
ABB Grain
Arinso
AstraZeneca
Bender
City of San Diego
Checkpoint
Colgate
Deutsche Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit
Dow Chemical
Energie AG
EFI
Favrille Pharma
[….]

72. Resources SAP Alliance Site: http://www.vmware.com/sap
White Papers, Success Stories, Webinars, Links, etc.
SAP VMware Blog:
DRS Demo: .

73. Resources SAP Notes SAP VMware (and other) benchmarks
– Virtualization on Windows
– Virtualization on Windows: Enhanced Monitoring
– VMware ESX Server configuration guidelines
– Linux: VMware ESX Server 3 configuration guidelines
– Linux: Supported Virtualization technologies with SAP
– SAP support in virtualized Linux environments
SAP VMware (and other) benchmarks

74. Over 30 Awards in 2007 Most Reliable: VMware ESX
(#2: IBM Mainframe)
Best Breakout Technology: VMware
Easiest to Use/Manage: VMware Workstation
Biggest "Wow" in an IT Product: VMware Fusion

75. Questions?