AGENDA

Breakfast

SAP Green IT Community

V01 — Comprehensive, Efficient, and Secure Data Management in Virtualized SAP Environments . . . and Beyond
Customers use SAP in virtualized environments to cut costs and to use IT resources more efficiently, but sometimes run their production sites in native mode or even move to cloud environments. The use of flexible, comprehensive and efficient data management, including backup, restore, archiving, replication, disaster recovery de-duplication or even data indexing for complex data search capability is mandatory for any large-scale, multi-tier SAP environment. Commvault’s customers, such as Shell, Yamaha or the City of Las Vegas are using extensively all these capabilities and more across their virtual SAP servers providing unlimited scalability and efficiencies through simplified management and better use of data and resources – all manageable from a single console. This session will explain in detail and based on customer experience and tangible TCO numbers why the use of a single-platform data management solution for all SAP environments will further reduce costs, time and resources and protect and manage SAP data 24x7 for higher productivity and high availability.

Axel Streichardt, Commvault

V19 — SAP on vSphere Performance Best Practices
This session outlines some best practice solutions and guidelines for running SAP on the VMware platform. Topics will include how to design for high availability in the vSphere environment, managing non-production systems using Lab Manager and deploying SAP GUI client using ThinApp. Performance results will be shown to enable you to conduct an approximate sizing using SAP QuickSizer. Performance monitoring concepts and recommendations will be given on how best to use the enhanced virtual performance counters in transaction OS07N. Two demos will be shown demonstrating deploying SAP GUI client with ThinApp and hot add of virtual CPU to a virtualized SAP system under load.

Vas Mitra, VMware

Andre Kemp, VMware

V04 — ACC Best Practices – Managing 100+ SAP Systems at K+S
K+S is one of the world's leading suppliers of specialty and standard fertilizers, plant care as well as salt products with more than 12.000 employees, the annual revenue exceeds 4.8 B€. K+S is managing more than one hundred SAP systems in a virtual environment end to end, using the SAP Adaptive Computing Controller to guarantee an easy and cost effective 24x7 operation. The customer together with the infrastructure provider Fujitsu will explain how this highly efficient environment is set up and report experiences from the daily business.

Ralf Klahr, Fujitsu

Marco Bluese, K+S

Hannes Kuehnemund, SAP

C18— Virtual SAP Upgrade Tools in the Cloud
Introduction of Texperts' value-added service tools using Virtualization and Cloud technology to achieve zero foot print in the SAP customer's data center and a Pay-as-you-Go flat cost structure. vUpgrade and vBreakFix are tools-as-a-service (taas) offerings through Texperts' private cloud and aim to increase business agility, cost reduction and optimization while facing an SAP upgrade. These solutions are built on VMware software and supplement the technical SAP upgrade process. It accelerates the SAP upgrade process and at the same time increase the flexibility by means of providing independence of fixed timelines as well as controllable costs. This is possible due to innovative SAP upgrade services injected with Virtualization and Cloud technology.

V17 — Virtualization and the Transformation of Data Centers
For the first time in SAP’s history we have been able to reduce the number of physical servers and power consumption, while meeting continuous growth for computing re-sources. This is an important milestone for SAP in taking virtualization to the next level and transforming the datacenter to a cloud computing ready delivery model.  The SAP Managed Services division operates the global enterprise data center infrastructure of the SAP group. This presentation shows how SAP implemented Virtualization into some of its internal business processes and discusses the transformation path to an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) compute cloud model. Technical infrastructure topics are discussed as well as some examples of the identified usage scenarios for virtualized environments. The session gives details on management benefits as well as the challenges of a large virtual infrastructure. It describes configuration, setup and management of large-scale virtualization environments and provides an insight into data center automation strategies to establish a corporate compute cloud. This session demonstrates how SAP operates one of the world’s largest IT infrastructures and explains some of the technology approaches on how to manage such a challenging business.

G08 — Why Sizing and Architecture Play a Big Role
If you are planning to virtualize your SAP environment and have concerns related to the optimal sizing of the virtual infrastructure needed to support the performance requirements of the SAP environment, then this session is for you. Optimal sizing of SAP landscape is of paramount importance so that the resources are not underutilized thereby negating one of the benefits of virtualization, or experience performance bottlenecks because of undersized infrastructure. Topics include metrics that need to be evaluated to decide if an environment can be virtualized, and how to design virtual infrastructure to handle spikes in workloads that are typical in a SAP environment. This session also covers the design of virtual infrastructure that enables you to migrate to Adaptive Computing framework in future, enabling improvements in flexibility and availability. An end user case study focusing on migrating an existing virtual environment to Adaptive Computing framework will also be discussed.  (You will also hear about the real-time experience of our customer who will also join to present with us.)

C05 — "I Can Do WHAT in Five Minutes?": A Story of SAP, Partners, Sales, and Moving Enterprise Apps into the Cloud
Almost a year ago, as Cloud Computing was just beginning to make headlines, SAP and VMware both quietly engaged in an experiment with a little-known stealth startup. The startup's claim: they could enable the companies to offer multiple virtualized SAP environments, fully linkable to on-premise datacenters, "in the Cloud," in five minutes or less. The startup delivered on the promise, enabling SAP partners today to obtain full certification environments online in seconds – powered by CloudShare. This session will discuss the challenges faced in putting Enterprise-class performant applications "in the Cloud," and the IT and sales benefits and ROI recognized in doing so.

V06 — A Case Study in Storage Virtualization
Ryerson, a leading distributor and processor of metals in North America, was looking to develop a more highly available, scalable, and flexible infrastructure that provided the most value to the business for their SAP infrastructure investment.  Hitachi Data Systems helped Ryerson design a tiered, virtualized infrastructure for SAP.  This infrastructure provided flexibility to dynamically provision storage to meet challenging Service Levels and easily scale to address growing business requirements.  This session will identify the key design elements, challenges, solution characteristics and provide an overview of the comprehensive production solution.  Come learn how to design and build a cost effective, flexible SAP infrastructure solution leveraging advanced virtualization and provisioning technologies.  You will also hear about lessons learned and unique elements when providing this kind of infrastructure for an SAP environment.