For many organizations SAP applications are critical to business success. A stable infrastructure underpins all successful SAP deployments, but are very demanding of hardware resources. Therefore, it is challenging to virtualize the SAP infrastructure while retaining the desired performance. This possible hit to performance causes some companies to stay with dedicated, non-virtualized servers.
This end-user case study focuses on reducing performance overhead and examining the impact of new features for improving overall virtualization deployments with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500-based DP servers (“Nehalem” architecture) and the latest VMWare ESX. This proof of concept testing provides benchmarking of robust enterprise SAP ERP applications which challenge system resources, in both native (=bare metal) and virtualized scenarios. Results show material reduction of the virtualization overhead. The combination of Intel Xeon 5500 (EPT, VPID, Turbo and SMT features), with the latest VMware’s ESX provides a compelling value proposition for virtualizing resource intensive applications, like SAP, without any compromises in performance.
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Lecture (1 hour)
