The advanced features in products from SAP and VMware combine synergistically to create perhaps the most powerful business process automation system that it is possible to build with today's technology.
Our customers who want to leverage the agility provided by SAP NetWeaver® enhancement packages also need the flexibility and powerful management features of VMware technology to achieve the kind of seamless, efficient network of interrelated processes that has long been envisioned but nearly impossible to achieve.
Chris Wolf, Research VP at Gartner, discusses the advantages of virtualizing SAP and how the barriers to virtualization are lie mainly with people and process rather than technology (2:28 mins).
Dynamically Rebalance Applications with SAP Virtualization
With VMware virtualization solutions, your SAP solutions based development, test, training, and production environments can cost less and be more productive than within a purely physical infrastructure. From server consolidation and containment to business process and data center automation, the full range of virtualization benefits can be applied to all sizes of SAP deployments.
Support
SAP has released a general support statement for virtual environments, including support for packaging the SAP GUI with VMware ThinApp. Visit the SAP Community Network for more information and resources.
You can dynamically rebalance applications while increasing resource utilization across your test development, Q&A, training and production environments. And VMware solutions increase the availability of SAP applications with technologies such as VMware vMotion, VMware High Availability and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
Top Ten Reasons To Run SAP Software Solutions on VMware Virtualization Technology
- 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
- Increase uptime during planned maintenance
- Realize immediate ROI
Read the TCO and ROI Analysis of SAP Landscapes using VMware Technology whitepaper
— Dr. Gregory Smith, Director of Dynamic Services, T-Systems North AmericaVMware solutions, combined with our own IP, give us high application availability, high server utilization and agile resource management, making it possible to give our customers using SAP solutions a true utility computing model at a lower cost than our competitors.
