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SAP has released two SD Benchmarks based on VMware vSphere 4. The benchmark tests were performed by VMware partner Fujitsu using Intel processors and the latest SD Benchmark setup, which contains unicode, sub 1 sec. response time, and EHP 4.
Here are the results:
- * The setup of one virtual machine with four vCPUs (out of 16 native threads) was able to handle 1,144 SD users with a response time of 0.97 sec., which is equivalent to 6,250 SAPS (Certification Number :2009028).
- * The setup of one virtual with eight vCPUs (out of 16 native threads ) was able to handle 2,056 SD users with a response time of 0.98 sec., which is equivalent to 11,230 SAPS (Certification Number :2009029).
Currently a single virtual machine can have eight virtual CPUs, which means it only utilizes a subset of the available physical cores. Overall these results show that a single virtual machine can handle more than 11,000 SAPS with very good scaling when going from four to eight virtual CPUs.
The complete Benchmark certificates can be found at http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx. Both Benchmarks were run on : SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, on VMware ESX Server 4.0 , MaxDB 7.8, SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode), Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S5, 2 Processors / 8 Cores / 16 Threads, Intel Xeon Processor X5570, 2.93 Ghz, 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core, 8 MB L3 cache per processor.