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Sun servers and storage provide the performance, scalability, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness that help you meet your business needs using SAP solutions. With Sun's complete family of servers and storage — you have a choice of architectures.

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The SAP Standard Application Benchmarks help you find the appropriate hardware configuration for you IT solutions. The benchmarking procedure is standardized and well defined. It is monitored by the SAP Benchmark Council made up of representatives of SAP and other technology partners including Sun. Sun is an active member of this council and actively engages in the benchmark process. Sun views this as an opportunity to strengthen quality assurance, as well as test and verify scalability, concurrency, and multiuser behavior of system software components, RDBMS, and business applications.

Understanding a SAP SD 2-tier benchmark result

“We have great confidence in Sun technologies and Sun's vision to continue to address customers' needs. With new market demands, businesses must find ways to leverage technology advancements while streamlining budgets.”

— S. Singh Mecker, senior vice president, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG

Perspectives

As of January 2009, Sun has run more Unicode benchmarks than any other vendor. Eighty percent of the posted Unicode benchmarks were run by Sun. HP and IBM have not run a single Unicode benchmark.

Sun Blade Servers

High-performance systems designed to handle large workloads in a small footprint

Sun Blade servers play an integral role in your SAP environment. These systems deliver fast performance, easy scalability, energy efficiency, and longevity. Sun Blade systems support your choice of architectures: UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processors, Solaris 10 OS, Linux, Windows, and VMware in a single common chassis.

Running SAP applications on Sun Blade Systems can help you make the most of your SAP infrastructure. The open architecture of the Sun Blade systems platform can help you respond quickly to changing business needs, with greater flexibility to expand your SAP infrastructure.

Benchmarks and News

Sun pushes into the enterprise market with 2-tier SAP-SD standard application benchmark using Sun Blade 8000 modular system.

Sun x64 Servers

Performance, density, scalability, and energy efficiency with lower costs and complexity

Sun and SAP offer an economical enterprise-class alternative. SAP supports SAP Business Suite on Solaris 10 OS for x64 platforms. Combining the scalable Solaris 10 OS and Sun's powerful, energy-efficient Intel and AMD processor-based systems creates a mission-critical platform that can cost-effectively deliver manageability, flexibility, security, and reliability.

Solution Brief — SAP on Sun's AMD processor-based systems

Solution Brief — SAP on Sun's Intel processor-based systems

Leveraging the Power of Solaris 10 on Intel Xeon Processors for SAP Solutions

Benchmarks and News

Sun Fire X4270 server delivers highest two-processor result on two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark with Enhancement Pack 4.

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Sun Fire X4450 Server — World Record for 4-processor systems running Unix on 2-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark

SAP Standard Application Benchmark Certification

How Does SAP perform on Solaris x64 compared to Linux?

Operating Systems

SAP supports the Solaris OS, Windows OS, and Linux on Sun platforms.

Desktops

Sun offers the ability to manage desktops and updates centrally, avoiding the high costs of traditional distributed desktops in SAP environments. Applications and data are hosted in the datacenter — secure and protected. You can provision new users in minutes, and they can access applications running on multiple platforms from a single device. Use your existing PC's and thin clients or deploy Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients for a completely stateless computing experience.

SAP Education Center improves service with Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software and Sun Ray Virtual Display Clients
Sun Secure Global Desktop software provides secure access to centralized Windows, UNIX/Linux, Mainframe and Midrange applications from a wide range of popular client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, Solaris OS Workstations, thin clients and more.
Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software 2.0 elivers access to a highly secure, resilient and available virtual desktop environment on a wide variety of client devices, from traditional PCs to Sun Ray virtual display clients.

CoolThreads Technology-based Servers

Advanced, built-in virtualization technology delivers the flexibility of 256 virtual systems on a single servers

Sun's CoolThreads technology-based server line delivers exceptional throughput for SAP applications, helping you deliver enterprise computing solutions with breakthrough performance.

Solution Brief — SAPon Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server

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Benchmarks and News

Mid-to-high-end Servers

Compute density backed by enterprise-class features, mainframe-class RAS, and more

Solaris OS running on SPARC servers brings mainframe-class availability and partitioning to the open systems market. Ideal for simplifying your SAP environment — whether you're a small, medium, or large-sized company. You can take advantage of affordable virtualization and consolidation, Web tier environments, smaller databases, and large-scale enterprise applications alike.

Benchmarks and News

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 sets new SAP-SD 2-tier World Record
- SAP Standard Application Benchmark Certification
- Blog — World Record SAP-SD 2-Tier: Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 SPARC64 VII SAP-SD 2-Tier ERP 6.0 (2005)
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server outperforms IBM System p5 595 on SAP SD 2-Tier Benchmark
The 64-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server beat the 64-way IBM p5+ 595 by 7%. The 64-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server achieved 3.4x more users than the 16-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server.
- SAP Standard Application Benchmark Certification
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Sets new SAP-SD World Record!
- SAP Standard Application Benchmark Certification
- Blog — Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 SPARC64 VI on SAP SD standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark

Storage

Sun offers a full portfolio of storage products for SAP solutions to help you decrease TCO and complexity while protecting your valuable SAP data.

Sun Storage and SAP Partnership Solutions
Read how Tessenderlo Group increased datacenter efficiency and storage utilization in their SAP environment using Sun storage virtualization solutions.

Databases

SAP supports the following databases running on Sun platforms

MaxDB
Oracle
And most recently, DB2 on Solaris for SPARC and x64 platforms

Benchmark Description

The SAP Standard Application SD (Sales and Distribution) Benchmark is a two-tier ERP business test that is indicative of full business workloads of complete order processing and invoice processing, and demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software on a single system. The SAP Standard Application SD Benchmark represents the critical tasks performed in real-world ERP business environments.

SAP is one of the premier world-wide ERP application providers, and maintains systems on the various SAP products. For more information see: sap.com/benchmark.