At a Glance
- Dramatically reduce the cost of desktop maintenance
- Reduce the number of servers in the SAP environment
- Quickly respond to changes in demand
- Easily access storage and archived data
- Minimize downtime for upgrades and maintenance
Server Virtualization
Sun's server virtualization technologies — Dynamic System Domains, Logical Domains, and Sun xVM Server — allow users to partition servers to run different types and versions of systems and SAP applications on a single server. This helps reduce the number of servers you need for production, testing, quality assurance, training, and upgrades. Solaris Containers provide advanced OS and application virtualization features across Sun's entire server line.
Sun and SAP fully support SAP applications running on Solaris Containers and Sun LDoms.
Learn more about Sun Server Virtualization Solutions
Use Solaris Containers and ZFS file system to easily minimize downtime in SAP environments.
- Feature Story — Learn how Solaris Containers and ZFS file systems can cut downtime from hours to days to just seconds.
- SAP NetWeaver Magazine Article — Downsize Your System Downtime
- Solution Sheet — Minimized Planned Downtime on SAP Systems [link to http://www.sun.com]
- White Paper — Using the Solaris OS to Upgrade SAP Environments White Paper
“After an operating period of two years, we can confirm that virtualization goes hand in hand with consolidation. We need less physical hardware and less energy than before, and we continue to use an environment with a stable response and good performance.”
— Dr. Holger Wittges, Executive Director at SAP UCC, Technical University of Munich
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Storage Virtualization
The open, ZFS file system pools together storage resources to manage storage as a single resource, so SAP applications can easily access storage when needed.. Energy-efficient tape virtualization solutions minimize the overall cost of protecting SAP data through improved tape utilization, shared tape resources, and reduced complexity.
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Managing Virtualized Environments
Cross-platform virtualization management technology, Sun xVM Ops Center, provisions and manages pools of resources that users can share and allocate to many SAP instances. Resource management features enable applications to use resources from other applications, bringing server usage close to 85% of capacity.
Sun Virtualization Suite of Services
Sun offers a complete set of virtualization services that help you run you SAP datacenter more efficiently. Sun's architectural experts can help you choose the right technologies from Sun's end-to-end virtualization portfolio to build your company's next-generation virtual environment.
Learn more about the Sun Virtualization Suite of Services
Working With SAP
Sun is continuing to work with SAP to integrate and certify Sun's virtualization technologies Sun LDoms and Solaris Containers are currently supported with SAP software. Sun is also working to provide the ability to create, start, stop, and move SAP instances across pools of hardware with Sun xVM Ops Center.
Most recently, Sun helped form the SAP Enterprise Virtualization Alliance and Green IT Community. Sun continues its strong tradition of co-innovation through active participation within the SAP communities and through joint projects with SAP's Co-Innovation Lab to offer an efficient and flexible IT infrastructure for SAP environments.
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