Virtualization for SAP Solutions

RE: SAP Global Support Anniversary

chreis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:45:02 GMT

Rodos,

thanks for the comment. Yes, I'm a VMware employee and the details I mentioned have been officially announced at VMworld in Las Vegas. Of course always with the disclaimer that the official release might offer different features/details.

Christoph

RE: SAP Global Support Anniversary

Rodos — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:20:33 GMT

Hi, is the details about support for more vCPUs public knowledge in regards to the next major release? Are you a VMware employee? If its public knowledge (like the FT) thats good to know. I believe many people are under an NDA in regards to new features and functions.

Rodos
Blog: http://rodos.haywood.org/

RE: Webcast: "Virtualize Your SAP Environment with NetApp and VMware" - Recorded Version Available on 11/14

jorad — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:21:36 GMT

Hello Bernd,

The webcast should be available at http://www.netapp.com/us/company/events/webcasts/33497259.html .

- Joachim

RE: Webcast: "Virtualize Your SAP Environment with NetApp and VMware" - Recorded Version Available on 11/14

Bernd — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:37:47 GMT

Hi Joachim,

is there a link to the recording yet?

Many thanks
Bernd

RE: SAP TechEd Las Vegas Recap

jorad — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:10:59 GMT

Hi Stuart,

A good percentage of our customers runs on Linux. One example of the public references is EFI (http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/customers/ss_efi.pdf), who runs SAP on RedHat Linux completely virtualized (all tiers, all environments). They are also using Oracle.

EFI also migrated from a Unix environment to x86/Linux with VMware with great results, hence it sounds like their story is very relevant to you.

'Hope this helps.

Joachim

RE: SAP TechEd Las Vegas Recap

macgreen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:36:28 GMT

Joachim,
Do you know of a reference customer that is running SAP using Oracle on Linux VM (Suse/Redhat Enterprise)?
All these case studies so far just seem to talk Windows Servers as the Guest OS.

We are a Unix shop and are looking for some references, experiences.

regards
Stuart

RE: VMware at SAP TechEd 2008 Las Vegas

jorad — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:12:18 GMT

Hi, this is going to be a great session, and we are looking forward to meeting you at VMworld!

RE: VMware at SAP TechEd 2008 Las Vegas

rscherer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:55:32 GMT

Ah, got so excited forgot to notice that this posting was for SAP TechEd... My breakout session will be at VMworld 2008. Thanks and hope to see you there!

RE: VMware at SAP TechEd 2008 Las Vegas

rscherer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:33:36 GMT

Don't forget about EA1562 - Virtualizing SAP / An in-depth look on how The City of San Diego utilizes VMware ESX --- this I believe is the only customer based breakout session on SAP

RE: Checkpoint Systems Success Story Now Available

macgreen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:36:38 GMT

2 Questions:

What Operating System is SAP running on.?
What Backup strategy/application was used for this environment?

Regards

RE: Efficient Disaster Recovery for SAP Landscapes

DR SAP test — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:56:46 GMT

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Indunil

RE: Webinar Announcement: "Streamlining SAP Upgrades with VMware Infrastructure 3" (May 28, 9 am PDT)

jorad — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:17:03 GMT

Hi Rudi, please try again the link in the blog.

RE: Webinar Announcement: "Streamlining SAP Upgrades with VMware Infrastructure 3" (May 28, 9 am PDT)

Rudi Wiesmayr (Austria) — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:13:25 GMT

How can I register for this webex?

"Join Event now as a panelist" says: "Your e-mail address does not match any of panelist's e-mail address specified by the event host. Please re-enter or contact the event host."

Other possibilites are not available.

Kind regards, Rudi

RE: VMware Best Practices for SAP installations

Walbert Broeders — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:08:27 GMT

Is SAP working together with there partners to get the 'SAP on VMWare' combination out there ?
Our software partner (Getronics Pink Roccade / Civility) keeps telling us that they don't recommend it.

RE: VMware Best Practices for SAP installations

Michael Hesse — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:34:45 GMT

Hello ncarde,

Please refer to the VMware knowledgebase Article 2021:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2021

I am not sure what you mean with "VMware does not support MSCS running on mulitple Physical Hosts " ?
My understanding is, that you can have two VM's, each running on a different Host participating in an MSCS Cluster. You have to use shared Storage and put the Disks into shared mode, but other than that it should work like any other MSCS Cluster.
It is also possible to use a Physical Host as the active node and a VM as the Failover node, so that you can consolidate the Failover nodes onto one VMware system.

Hope this helps
Michael

RE: VMware Best Practices for SAP installations

ncarde — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:21:53 GMT

What do you recommend for making the Enqueue Replication Service (for each App CI) Highly Available in a VMware Config?

i.e. if you have ECC CI installed on one Virtual Machine and you want to replicate the Enqueue table to another Guest in the event that ECC CI fails....

SAP recommends using Cluster Software; however, since VMware does not support MSCS running on mulitple Physical Hosts it seems foolish to have a two node VM cluster running on the same Physical Host, no?

RE: VMware Joins the SAP Co-Innovation Lab!

SAP Welcome VMware to COIL — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:04:57 GMT

SAP Co-Innovation team is very excited about VMWare joining the Coil community. In a short time, VMware has added significant value and contribution to multiple projects with SAP and other lab members and sponsors. From virtualization to applications and ESOA deployment, VMWare has proved to be an innovative and reliable partner of COIL. We are very eager to continue our collaboration with VMWare through this program. Welcome to coil!

RE: VMware Best Practices for SAP installations

jorad — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:46:54 GMT

Ramesh,

It depends on the specifics whether a production environment, or a part of it, is a good candidate for virtualization. Since the maximum size for a VM today is 4 vCPU (or four cores), in your example the database would not be a good candidate. However, in situations like that the application server tier almost always is a good area to virtualize.

On the second question: yes, this is certainly possible and it depends on the customer's preferences. Very frequently, Dev or QA servers are also used as fail-over targets for production instances. This is extremely easy to configure in VMware infrastructure.

Joachim

RE: VMware Best Practices for SAP installations

Ramesh — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:55:51 GMT

It is interesting to know on virtualizing the Production environment. In case of high SAPS requirement especially for SAP CRM (65% load of Quad core 4 way server), will virtualization has any effect.

Can the development and Quality environment server resources be virtualized with Production environment.

Ramesh

RE: One Week SAP Windows Production Support for VMware - Comments on Comments

villamor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:19:29 GMT

I agree about TCO savings. Additionally, aside from the savings in hardware and system administration, a huge impact on power consumption both in electricity & air conditioning. Enterprise Data Center spend a lot of money on cooling and power consumption. So those big companies with Data Centers that has SAP ERP solution running and wants to save money, migrating to x86 machines running on ESX would be great savings in the long run.

I believe right now it is estimated almost 70% of the market running on SAP is on UNIX environment running on Oracle Database.

I guess the bottom line is savings both in monetary and services.

Villamor