Virtualization for SAP Solutions

Call For Papers: SAP Virtualization Week 2009 - April 20-23, SAP Co-Innovation Lab, Palo Alto, CA

jorad — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:16:06 GMT

The call for papers is now out for the upcoming SAP Virtualization Week 2009, taking place April 20-23 in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, CA. This is the third event of its kind, and the predecessors in 2007 and 2008 were great successes. It is a great opportunity to learn about other customers who have virtualized their SAP systems, to share and discuss your own experiences, to meet with partners and vendors providing solutions in the SAP virtualization space, and/or simply to see what is new in this area.

Needless to say, VMware will have a strong presence.

The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2008, and you should send your abstract/presentation directly to SAP's Chief Virtualization Strategist Roland Wartenberg (roland.wartenberg@sap.com), or go to this link to learn more.

'Hope to see you there,

- Joachim

SAP UK & Ireland User Conference

m@t — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:57:43 GMT

Taking place at the Novotel London West, Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th November, the SAP UKI User Group’s annual conference and exhibition is the UK & Ireland’s premier SAP related event bringing together SAP professionals and business managers from across the UK, Ireland and Europe and is an event not to be missed! For its first time, VMware will also be present at this event. Do not miss to meet with us at the booth and please join us for our presentation on Tue, Nov. 11. Illustrated with customer references including Astra Zeneca and T-Systems, this presentation will show how running SAP on a virtualized platform can enhance availability, reduce operational costs and complexity, accelerate deployment and upgrade processes whilst mitigating risk and compliance issues.

Presentation: Deploying SAP applications in a virtualized environment

Date: Tuesday, 11. November 2008
Start Time: 14:05
End Time: 14:50

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

jorad — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:30 GMT

Today, NetApp hosted a webinar titled "Virtualize Your SAP Environment with NetApp and VMware.” It was a great discussion featuring Roland Wartenberg of SAP elaborating on SAP's virtualization strategy, Rick Scherer with the City of San Diego talking about their virtualized SAP environment, and Manfred Buchmann (NetApp) discussing the connection between NetApp storage solutions, VMware virtual machines, and SAP. I contributed a number of customer use cases and customer results. Of course, we als talked about our joint DR Solution (Efficient Disaster Recovery for SAP Landscapes).

You will be able to see the recording starting end of next week.

-Joachim

SAP TechEd Las Vegas Recap

jorad — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:59:00 GMT

It has been a busy and exciting 10 days, and it isn’t slowing down yet. Last week, we had a big presence at SAP TechEd, and this week VMworld is happening. Both events took (take) place in Las Vegas, extending the busyness into the evening hours. And as I write this, I am on my way to Nashville, TN, to speak together with Gunther Schmalzhaf, Product Manager for SAP Virtualization and Adaptive Computing, about the integration of the SAP Adaptive Computing Controller with VMware Infrastructure at the ASUG Conference 'Operations Optimization'.

But one thing at a time. Let’s start with our impressions and take-aways from TechEd (I will talk about the other events in my next post). Unfortunately, I was severely weakened by a bad cold, stopping me from spending much time at the VMware (and Intel) booth(s) talking to customers and partners. But that is what a team is for. So what are our impressions?

First of all, it is clear that VMware virtualization is becoming mainstream in SAP environments. In our booth we had twice as many customer contacts as last year, and we learned about many new customers who have virtualized their SAP environments. Overall, we spoke with more than 500 people, and we seriously need to think how we will handle the traffic next year (and ‘no’, we did not have any give-aways attracting people to our booth, these are all real interested practitioners). A good problem to have. We demoed our Efficient Disaster Recovery for SAP Landscapes (which we set up jointly with SAP and NetApp in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab), and it was enthusiastically well received -- a robust, testable, and cost-effective DR framework is extremely important for SAP customers. We also met partners interested in joining our VMware SAP Solutions Community , and we look forward to working with them. Customer comments included “We are using VMware for many months in production now, and it works just perfectly”, and even “please could you help to convince my IT guy that virtualizing my SAP environment is really a good thing!”.

In addition to our booth presence, quite a few Tech Ed breakout sessions dealt with virtualization in general and contained at least part of the VMware story.

Our own session, “Running VMware in Production: From Consolidation to Disaster Recovery” was attended by about 150 people. We were very pleased to learn that the vast majority were already using VMware in their SAP environments. By a count of raised hands, roughly a third of them are running in production, which is quite consistent with our internal intelligence. Vas Mitra, SAP Solutions Architect at VMware, provided technical best practices. We talked about the four big reasons customers are running their SAP production environments on VMware: Consolidation, Performance, DR & Availability, and Serviceability. We have customer stories available that show all of these uses. For example, our latest reference customer, medical device maker NuVasive (running their SAP environment on 14 HP Blade servers), says:

“Our SAP implementation was a multimillion-dollar project, probably one of the most important ones we’ll do for years to come, so we were all pretty nervous about it. But SAP is running great on VMware. Everyone is very happy with the performance–including the SAP contractors we have here. They have given rave reviews. I think that speaks volumes for VMware.” (Bill Moore, IT Infrastructure Manager).

The main points of the presentation were a) many customers have already virtualized SAP production environments, and b) consolidation is just the beginning of the benefits they have gained.

The presentation from Suba Garlapati at EFI on how his company leveraged VMware Infrastructure during its SAP upgrade project led to a very animated discussion with the audience. Suba explained how EFI used snapshots to accelerate the upgrade. He also talked about their overall environment and how they use VMware now in production.

SAP offered a few sessions on related topics. Roland Wartenberg (Chief Virtualization Strategist at SAP Labs) talked, like last year, about the entire virtualization stack (storage, network, application, server, desktop, etc.), and we demonstrated our joint disaster recovery solution for a few minutes. This session was extended to two hours compared to last years’ one hour, and that was really required to cover everything that is going on. The big takeaway for VMware from Roland’s talk is that, apart from our own activities in the areas of server, desktop, and application virtualization, ‘Virtualization’ is a wide field, and there are many opportunities for us to work with our partners, as we do within (and outside of) the SAP Enterprise Virtualization Community. Our DR solution integrating VMware Site Recovery Manager with our storage partners technologies (see for example our work in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab) is living proof of that.

Last but not least, Gunther Schmalzhaf talked about SAP Adaptive Computing and its integration with VMware Infrastructure. Gunther’s first session was so crowded that the organizers had to lock the doors. I will talk more about this session in an upcoming blog after Gunther and I give a joint session at the SAP User Group Conference in Nashville on Wednesday Sept. 17.

So that was it from SAP TechEd. To summarize: great traffic, a lot of interest, a lot of new customer testimonials and partner discussion, and a lot of fun.

SAP solutions on VMware Infrastructure in production – beginning to be mainstream!

Joachim

Tell Us Your SAP Virtualization Story and Win a MacBook Air with VMware Fusion!

jorad — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:57:00 GMT

Win a MacBook Air with VMware Fusion just for taking a few minutes to explain how you use VMware solutions in your SAP landscape. If you've successfully virtualized any part of your SAP environment, you are eligible to enter the Tell Us Your Story contest. There are seven categories, including one for SAP deployments, and you can apply for as many categories as you qualify for. Obtain more details and the application forms for the contest, which runs until June 27.

Checkpoint Systems Success Story Now Available

jorad — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:51:00 GMT

The customer story we talked about last week, Checkpoint Systems, is now available as a case study.

Here's what Michael Nogger, IT Operations Manager Europe says about Checkpoint's SAP virtualization experience:

"Moving our SAP deployment on to VMware Infrastructure has made it easier to deliver a higher level of service to the business than was previously possible. We have moved our entire SAP environment onto VMware and our lives are now significantly easier. We spend far less time performing upgrades and maintenance tasks, and our service delivery processes are incredibly streamlined."

For more details, please read the story!

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

jorad — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:19:00 GMT

If you are interested in hearing about a customer deployment of SAP ERP on VMware Infrastructure, you may want to attend this Webinar, May 28, 2008, 9 am Pacific Time: Streamlining SAP Upgrades with VMware Infrastructure 3.

Electronics for Imaging (EFI), SAP and VMware are discussing the use cases, best practices and benefits of deploying SAP software on VMware Infrastructure.

New Customer Proof Point for 'SAP on VMware': Checkpoint Systems

jorad — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Check out the new 'SAP on VMware' success story on Checkpoint Systems, published by Manufacturing Computer Solutions. The article illustrates why customers turn to VMware virtualization for their SAP landscapes, and what kind of results they are seeing.

Checkpoint's problem areas - maintenance, upgrades, and provisioning - have been fully addressed by VMware virtualization. The entire ERP environment was virtualized, including database and central instance in production and non-production landscapes. What are the results? Among the most important are improved ability to deliver on internal SLAs and accelerated disaster recovery. The article also cites an 8:1 consolidation ratio, 34% reduction in power and cooling costs, and a reduction of provisioning times from six weeks to one hour. Truly great results, and very typical.

-Joachim

Efficient Disaster Recovery for SAP Landscapes

jorad — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:00:00 GMT

VMware announced Monday that VMware Site Recovery Manager will be available for order next week. Site Recovery Manager is a new product for disaster recovery management and automation that leverages the storage technologies of our storage partners. Clearly, business continuity and disaster recovery are critical for SAP customers, so this is a great time to talk about the DR project that we have been conducting at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab together with SAP and NetApp. See also the NetApp press release.

What are the issues with 'traditional' DR as we know it? First of all, many SAP (and non-SAP) customers do not have a proper DR plan in place, because it is too complex and cost-prohibitive for them. Investing in a heavily under-utilized infrastructure simply does not make sense to them. And if they have plans, they rarely get around to actually testing the framework. I generally hear from customers that they carve out time for this important effort once a year, at best. Concerns about impact on production are another issue. The DR framework is another huge challenge since it usually consists of a long list of manual steps which are often executed by multiple groups, making it very hard to minimize recovery time. Given the critical importance of having a functioning datacenter, these issues leave customers with significant exposure if unexpected failure events occur.

Site Recovery Manager addresses these issues by enabling you to easily create and manage centralized disaster recovery plans, allowing for mouse-click automated testing of these plans without impacting your production systems, and automating the site fail-over in case of a disaster.

In the SAP Co-Innovation Lab (see also VMware Joins the SAP Co-Innovation Lab!) , we tested this scenario for SAP, as it is a critical feature for our joint customers. The DR setup we staged in the lab gives a good example of the product in the SAP context, and it also shows the way Site Recovery Manger integrates with storage partner technologies (NetApp in this case).

Below we illustrate how easy it is to test the DR setup with Site Recovery Manager.

Starting Point:

We start with two SAP applications on the production site: IDES-prd and SCM-prd. The applications are located on two separate physical servers. On the DR site, we only have one physical server, which already is used by a sandbox system, SCM-sbx. The two SAP production instances are 'protected' and a DR plan is created automatically (although it is still customizable) to govern the fail-over steps in case of a disaster. In this case, we want both system to fail over to the one physical node on the DR site, and we choose to keep the sandbox system running. The protected systems are replicated in short intervals to the DR site.

Testing:

To illustrate the testing, we open VMware VirtualCenter in both the production and the DR sites. In the production VirtualCenter window, we open an SAP GUI from the console and look at the SAP sales orders, shown in the upper left window in Figure 1 below. In the DR VirtualCenter window, we execute the DR test scenario. Testing steps is as easy as pressing the button "test" for the appropriate plan. The test plan integrates with the underlying NetApp storage to create a FlexClone of the replicated VMs, boots them in an isolated (for test purposes) network, so that there is no interference with the production systems. The picture below (click on it for a better resolution) shows that the SAP VMs (IDES-prd and SCM-prd) are “recovered”, which means that the VMs have been started.

Figure 1: SAP DR plan in Action (upper left: production site, lower right: DR site - please click on the image for better resolution)

Now we are ready to test the systems. We go to the Inventory at the DR Site and open the console for the IDES-prd system. We login to the SAP UI and look up the sales orders. Note that the prd system and the DR system are running simultaneously, but that there is no interference, since the DR systems are created from a clone of replicated environment in an isolated network (try doing all of that in a physical environment!).

Figure 2: Test of Recovered SAP Systems (upper left: production site, lower right: DR site - please click on the image for a better resolution)

The sales orders exactly match between production site and recovery site, since in this case we haven’t created new sales orders since the last replication.

So the test is successful! Note also that both SAP systems started on the same host, while the pre-existing sandbox system was still running on that host as well. Of course, you can automatically suspend all existing VMs as part of the plan so that the recovered production instances have maximal resources.

Conclusion:

How long did it take to test the DR scenario?
In this case, a few minutes.
How complex was the test?
Very simple, one mouse-click followed by some testing. Even non-technical people can easily accomplish that.
Was there an impact on production?
Absolutely not.
How often can I run the test?
As often as you want.

So VMware Site Recovery Manager really should help you to improve your existing disaster recovery setup, or even to implement the framework you wish you had.

Interested in a demonstration? Please send me a private message.

Joachim

P.S.: The SAP Co-Innovation Lab is a great place to create these proof points, and it really helps in bringing innovation much quicker to customers.

Announcing: VMware SAP Solutions Partner Community

jorad — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:08:00 GMT

We have recently been very busy with SAP activities and events, including SAP Virtualization Week in Palo Alto, SAP Sapphire Orlando, the completed VMware Site Recovery Manager project with SAP and NetApp at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, and the announcement of the SAP Enterprise Virtualization Community. We're not done yet: SAP Sapphire Berlin happens in less than two weeks. All will be discussed shortly when we get a few minutes to write about them.

But first, I want to announce the VMware SAP Solutions Partner Community. We created this growing community of VMware consulting/SI partners specifically to address the needs of customers who want to virtualize their SAP environments. All partners have demonstrated their SAP and VMware expertise, and they are well-qualified to support our customers. We will work with them to extend best practices, develop new use cases, and build new solutions for virtualized SAP landscapes. The partners are also encouraged to collaborate with each other. In short, it's an outstanding group of diverse, qualified, and enthusiastic partners and VMware is very excited to work with them!

If your organization needs a service partner/integrator to assist you in virtualizing your SAP landscape, this is a great place to start. And if you are a service partner, consider joining the community!

Joachim

SAP Virtualization Week - April 7-10 in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto!

jorad — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:45:00 GMT

If you haven't yet, please have a look at SAP's announcement of the SAP Virtualization Week April 7-10! This great virtualization event takes place in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab (see also my previous blog) of SAP Labs in Palo Alto. You can learn how other customers have virtualized their SAP environments, evaluate new technologies, and of course you will hear from SAP about their virtualization strategy. There are many great sessions.

VMware will have two sessions. The first, presented together with HP, provides a lot of great information resulting from an 'SAP on VMware' workload characterization study with HP. Test scenarios cover multi 2-tier and 3-tier scenarios of ECC 6.0 on NUMA and UMA based HP X86-64 ProLiant servers with results demonstrating scalability, ESX Server NUMA optimization and performance improvements from ESX Server 3.0.2 to ESX Server 3.5. Really good stuff.

In our second presentation, we will discuss service automation provided by VMware technologies. Very specifically, with NetApp as co-presenter, we will talk about disaster recovery facilitated by the upcoming VMware Site Recovery Manager, which will simplify protection against disasters by leveraging and extending the VMware virtualization framework. We will also discuss other new VMware products that will provide SAP service management. The presentation is in part based on one of the two projects on the way in the SAP Co-Innovation Lab -- more details to follow).

Several customers will present their experiences with VMware in an SAP environment. If you're interested in virtualization in an SAP environment it will be a great event!

Note: you only have until March 16 to register!

- Joachim

P.S.: If you miss it... all of the presentations will be available on SDN. And we will also surely write about it in this forum.

VMware Joins the SAP Co-Innovation Lab!

jorad — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:19:00 GMT

As you may know, VMware recently not only announced SAP production support, but also our new status as an SAP Global Technology Partner. This new level of partnership has already spurred many new initiatives with SAP, and significantly accelerated our engagement with other partners in the SAP ecosystem as well. To convert these initiatives into proven and documented solutions, VMware has joined the SAP Co-Innovation Lab (or COIL) as a member, also providing key infrastructure to the lab. (In fact, just about any project hosted in the lab will now run on a VMware virtual machine.)

COIL is a well-resourced facility with expert, knowledgable staff, and it provides a focal point for many of our SAP activities, particularly in the Americas. Partners have instant access to the SAP systems they need, which greatly reduces ramp-up and development times for new solutions and integrations. Just as important, SAP is intimately involved in the projects, which enhances the solutions. COIL also allows VMware to demonstrate solutions to our customers without having to maintain a complete SAP infrastructure in our own facilities. Please see their website for more information.

In the end, this is really a great benefit to our joint customers, as innovation finds its way faster into their datacenters.

As I write this, VMware is working with SAP and other partners on two exciting projects, which I will blog about very, very soon.

Last but not least, the lab is right across from our headquarters in Palo Alto. So if you come to visit VMware and you are interested in our SAP activities, please let us know and we will show you around!

Joachim

SAP Windows Support Note Updated!

jorad — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:20:00 GMT

The news of support has been out for about ten days, and SAP has just now updated the support note 674851 "Virtualization on Windows".

Here are key passages:

"VMware ESX Server 3.0 is the first virtualization solution for Industry Standard Server and Microsoft Windows that meets the prerequisites of SAP applications..."

"..In internal tests, SAP applications could be reliably used under VMware without affecting the system stability. Currently, no problems are known that restrict the use of SAP applications under VMware. In addition, published benchmarks from Dell, HP, IBM and Fujitsu Siemens display good performance...."

(Let me add that Sun has a certified benchmark as well. See http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx for a complete current list.)

Also important is note 1104578, which describes how SAPOSCOL, the SAP kernel, and transaction OS07 need to be adjusted so that important key figures are visible in the SAP System Monitoring.

This is all very good. But how does the support framework work in practice? Generally, per the note, the call is opened with SAP. If the cause is suspected to be related to the VMware software component, "... SAP will transfer the problem to VMware support. [...] SAP and VMware have defined a process for a common solution to this problem."

Note though that the note specifically refers only to VMware ESX Server. If the question concerns higher-level VMware Infrastructure elements, like VMware High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduling, live migration with VMotion, etc., VMware support should be contacted directly.

This should be a very clear framework for our customers!

Happy holidays,

Joachim

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

jorad — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:46:00 GMT

The SAP Windows support announcement is now one week old, and what a busy week it has been. Many existing and prospective customers have called to express how important the SAP support announcement is for them, new partners have reached out to us, and the news was also very positively discussed in the press and the blogs (see for example “VMware goes to Germany” at the Motley Fool). More than 300 customers also dialed into our webinars discussing the announcement. For me, as VMware’s Business Development Manager responsible for our SAP activities in the Americas, truly an exciting week.

Today, I want to discuss some of the blogs which have picked up on the news.

Larry Dignan of ZDNet is asking: "VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier?". He comments on the fact that there are obvious (and large) savings in hardware costs, but that there should be more savings to be had around testing and SAP uptime.

And Vinnie Mirchandaniwants to know: “Can it also cook breakfast?". Vinnie writes:

“….Sizing and provisioning and administering hardware is a very small part of labor in an SAP implementation. Process design, table configuration, data conversion, integration, end-user training, testing, change management - are the big bad boys...."

While the comments disagree a bit on the size of the hardware savings (and Larry has got it right!) they bring up a very important and valid point: in the big scheme of SAP implementations/upgrades, hardware savings and reduced sizing risk are good, but there are other major ticket items. Can VMware also help with these?

And the answer is a clear “yes". Certainly, SAP customers will still need to configure their tables, convert data, write their custom code if required, and so forth. But VMware offers great benefits in a variety of other critical areas, such as:

- increased opportunities for test cycles
- mitigation of project risk
- improved application up-time across all environments
- increased business continuity and simplified disaster recovery

The ROI of all of these benefits scale with the criticality of your SAP implementation to your business, and not with the price of the underlying hardware. Therefore, massive savings can be derived from virtualizing your SAP implementation with VMware from benefits going far beyond hardware savings. (And let us not forget about operational savings - more on that in an upcoming blog).

To make this more concrete, I want to briefly highlight how VMware Infrastructure has helped customers with SAP upgrades, a critical activity which many SAP customers will be undertaking very soon. A great case study is provided by the customer we mentioned already in our first blog. Here, VMware virtualization was introduced in an SAP upgrade project (R3 v4.7 to ECC 6.0, plus Unix to x86/Linux migration, plus Oracle Unicode – needless to say a major endeavor). It is also important to stress that in this case virtualization was not a goal by itself, but a means to improve the SAP upgrade process.

How did it help? Which VMware features were used? First, by utilizing the VMware Snapshot technology, the customer was able to very quickly roll-back to known good versions if a problem occurred during the upgrade steps. A lot of flexibility was gained, more new features could be tried, and the project was progressing much more rapidly and effectively. Also, more test cycles could be run. Secondly, new environments could be created with a few mouse-clicks, also greatly benefitting the upgrade project and reducing its risk.

Overall, the customer realized the following benefits (over and above infrastructure TCO savings!):

- 100% more opportunity for test/dry-run cycles
- 20% reduction in development/deployment time
- 'Project creep' mitigation
- On-the-fly unforeseen environment spin-up

Thanks to VMware virtualization, the project came in on-time and on-budget. And, oh yes, they are now able to support 1800 SAP users with only two SAP administrators, and they have reduced their hardware footprint despite a lot of new features.

These benefits combined with other standard VMware features, like high-availability across all environments and distributed resource scheduling to ensure adequate compute resources for all application components, very much address some of bigger items in SAP implementations and upgrades.

To summarize: "VMware for SAP – much more than hardware savings!"

Joachim Rahmfeld

SAP and VMware: Global Technology Partners. Support for Windows in production!

jorad — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:20:00 GMT

VMware just put out a press release announcing that SAP is providing support for Windows production applications running on VMware ESX Server. Here is the first paragraph:

“VMware, Inc., the virtualization software leader, today announced that SAP AG will provide immediate full support to its solutions in 64-bit Windows- and Linux-based production environments running on VMware ESX Server. Servers from Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM and Sun have achieved hardware platform certification for SAP® solutions running on Windows and Linux with VMware ESX Server, a component of the VMware Infrastructure software suite. VMware Infrastructure supports SAP solutions with both Windows and Linux on industry-standard hardware. SAP and VMware will assist joint customers in cooperative support services and problem resolution, backed by a global technology partnership agreement and dedicated support staffing.”

We are very happy to be able to announce this news. The negotiations took some time to complete because both companies wanted to create a framework that would have the systems and processes in place to guarantee the relationship would mean a better experience for our joint customers. Finalizing the contract is gratifying for me especially as the alliance director, but the whole team celebrated together last week in Walldorf where we were gathered to talk about our plans for 2008.

What this agreement means is that, with NO limitations, SAP supports

SAP Netweaver-based applications, industry solutions, components, and add-ons (Linux for NetWeaver 2004 and NetWeaver 7.0, and Windows for NetWeaver 7.0)
running in any environment (dev, test, or production)
running on Linux or Windows 64-bit on VMware Infrastructure, as long as the hardware on which the stack runs has been certified by SAP.

See also the SAP support notes 1122388,1122387, 895807 for Linux. We will update this information with the appropriate Windows notes as soon as they have been posted/updated.

Also, with the agreement VMware is now a Global Technology Partner of SAP.

Talking with customers we’ve heard about multiple pain points that VMware Infrastructure is a great solution for, such as server and infrastructure sprawl in the multiple SAP component landscape, impending upgrades to 64-bit, provisioning dev and test environments that sometimes require more hardware than production environments, availability (“job one” for the SAP administrator), and integrating new technologies like NetWeaver, ESOA and xApps.

In September we gave a webinar called “The benefits of deploying SAP Enterprise Applications on Virtual Infrastructure” and if you’d like to replay it you can find it on the VMware-SAP web page (www.vmware.com/sap) or you can go directly to it here .

- Christoph Reisbeck