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First SAP SD Benchmark on vSphere 5

Posted by jasondinalt on Aug 3, 2011 1:49:51 AM

Results: 4600 SD Users and 25150 SAPS* in a 2tier setup with 24 vCPU's

 

 

This is the largest 2 tier virtualized benchmark in history, and an excellent proof-point for:

 

  • VMware vSphere  scalability

  • Large  virtualized databases

  • Supportability  of large SAP systems

  • Extremely low overhead of just 6% compared to the same native System

 

Details on the SAP SD benchmark certificate :

 

Virtualized:

http://download.sap.com/download.epd?context=40E2D9D5E00EEF7C28E4E62D4CB15EA689A3B74B610938E909A53777CAF358AA

Native:

http://download.sap.com/download.epd?context=40E2D9D5E00EEF7CEBCA4322831E3B23C8D4D48DEFCCF18AA0175E55AFB03057

 

We have created two Benchmarks on the exact same Hardware.

Virtualized: 1 VM with 24 vCPU's on 24 threads and 25120 SAPS*

Native: 1 Server with 24 threads and 26630 SAPS*

 

This  is the "worst case scenario" since the VM takes all the native  resources without additional resources for the Hypervisor and enables a one to one comparison, resulting in an overhead of only 6%.

With vSphere 5 even the most demanding SAP workloads are ready for virtualization.

 

 

We worked with Fujitsu to create a Benchmark report:

 

https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/docs/performance-report-vmware-em-en.pdf

 

*SAP ECC 6.0 with EHP 4 on Fujitsu Primergy on SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP1, database was MaxDB 7.8.

SAP certificate 2011027 and 2011028

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Aug 3, 2011 2:53 AM Rudi Wiesmayr… Rudi Wiesmayr…    says:

Please fix the "virtualized" link, it fails.

Kind regards, Rudi
Aug 3, 2011 2:55 AM Rudi Wiesmayr… Rudi Wiesmayr…    says:

Will you do another benchmark with Windows and SQLServer on this machine?

Would be interesting if the overhead is similar or different.

Kind regards, Rudi

Aug 3, 2011 3:02 PM rcobas rcobas    says:

The virtualized certificate link is broken...
Aug 4, 2011 10:37 PM jhanekom jhanekom    says:

Excellent news.  Can you please check the link for the Virtualised benchmark, though?  Seems to be dead.
Aug 5, 2011 2:37 AM jasondinalt jasondinalt    says in response to Rudi Wiesmayr…:

sorry, sap changed it.

Should work now.

Thx

Michael
Aug 5, 2011 2:40 AM jasondinalt jasondinalt    says in response to Rudi Wiesmayr…:

Hello,

No ,we won't. Benchmarks are pretty expensive.Previous experience shows, that the overhead is not much depending on the OS, but on the capabilities of the CPU and the Hypervisor.

Michael

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