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Ensure Business Continuity By Embracing ] Virtualization For Your SAP Environment Timothy Yates Matt Lestock [ ERI C SYNSTELI EN ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE: 2000 [ RI CHARD RAUCH ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE: 1999 [ JENNI FER BUKO ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE: 2006

[ Learning Points  Understand the fundamental concepts of virtualization and the value it brings to your SAP infrastructure.  SAP in a virtualized environment can meet even the most rigid uptime and business continuity requirements.  VMware virtualization technology enables customer to realize immediate cost benefits, while deploying business continuity strategies which would otherwise be too costly to develop and implement. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 2

[ Presentation Roadmap  Presentation Background  SAP Virtualization Overview With VMware  Business Continuity Concepts and Value in an SAP Environment Leveraging VMware Virtualization  SAP Virtualization Examples ROI / TCO  Summary Real Experience. Real Advantage. 3

[ DATAXSTREAM • A Leader In SAP Technical and Integration Consulting • 100% Project Success Rate • SAP, VMware, Dell Certified Partner • Over 15 Years SAP Experience • Offices in California, Indiana, Virginia Real Experience. Real Advantage. 4

[ Example Companies For Our Discussion  DataXstream  Business: SAP Consulting, SAP Product Development, and SAP Infrastructure & Architecture  Virtualized Since 2004: Leverage Virtualization for Internal Systems as well as our SAP Product Development Systems  Lumber Liquidators  Business: Retail Flooring Products  Virtualized in 2010: Leverage Virtualization For Entire SAP Landscape and Support Systems  Firestone Diversified Products  Business: Automotive Parts, Fibers, Building Products  Performing Datacenter and Virtualization Assessment Real Experience. Real Advantage. 5

[ Understanding Virtualization with VMware  Understand the fundamental concepts of virtualization and the value it brings to your SAP infrastructure. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 6

[ Internal Cloud Infrastructure With VMware Application • SAP and Supporting Products Layer Abstraction • VMware Hypervisor vSphere 4 Layer Internal • Server, Storage, and Network Hardware Cloud Resources Real Experience. Real Advantage. 7

[ VMware Hypervisor Real Experience. Real Advantage. 8

[ VMware – vSphere 4 Offering Standard ESXi Essentials Advanced VMware VMware VMware VMware Enterprise VMware / Plus Essentials Plus VMware Application and Infrastructure Tools vCenter vCenter Site vCenter vCenter Lab vCenter App vCenter Lifecycle Recovery Server Manager Speed Chargeback Manager Manager Hearbeat Real Experience. Real Advantage. 9

[ VMware – vSphere 4 – Business Continuity Standard ESXi Essentials / Advanced Enterprise Plus VMware VMware VMware VMware VMware Essentials Plus • High Availability • vMotion • 8 Way vSMP • Update Manager • Hot Add • Storage vMotion • vStorage API’s • Fault Tolerance • DRS / DPM • Thin Provisioning • Data Recovery • Distributed Switch • VC Agent • vShield Zones • Host Profiles • 3 rd Party • 4 Way vSMP • VMware ESX or Multipathing ESXi VMware Application and Infrastructure Tools vCenter vCenter Site vCenter vCenter Lab vCenter App vCenter Lifecycle Recovery Server Manager Speed Chargeback Manager Manager Hearbeat Real Experience. Real Advantage. 10

[ VMware High Availability (HA)  Minimize unplanned Hardware Failure Event downtime and service disruption. VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX  Eliminate the need for VM VM VM VM VM VM dedicated standby hardware. VM VM VM VM VM VM  Enable affordable uniform high availability across the Software Failure Event entire virtualized SAP environment.  Automatic detection of VMware ESX operating system failures. VM VM VM  Easy to configure “Out of VM VM Box Solution”. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 11

[ VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) Hardware Failure Event  Automatically detects server failures and triggers instantaneous, seamless VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX stateful failover resulting in VM FT Protected VM VM VM VM VM FT Protected zero downtime, zero-data- VM VM VM VM VM VM loss continuous availability. No Disruption T o Service During  Ideal for Central Services Failover Event instances. Continuous availability of Central Services.  Automatically triggers the creation of a new secondary virtual machine after failover. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 12

[ VMware vMotion  Perform hardware maintenance without VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX scheduled downtime. VM vMotion VM (Moved) VM VM VM VM  Proactively migrate virtual VM VM VM VM VM VM machines away from failing No Disruption T o Service During or underperforming servers. Virtual Machine Move  Automatically optimize and allocate entire pools of resources for optimal hardware utilization and alignment with business priorities. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 13

[ VMware DRS / DPM Dynamic Resource Dynamic Power Scheduler Management Continuously balanced capacity  Cut ongoing power and  will ensure that each virtual cooling costs by up to 20% machine has access to in the datacenter during low appropriate resources. utilization time periods.  Add additional capacity to a  Automate management of resource pool without system disruption. energy efficiency in the  Automatically migrate all virtual datacenter machines off physical servers to enable scheduled server maintenance with zero downtime. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 14

[ VMware Hot Add  Enables CPU and memory to be added to virtual machines when needed without downtime.  Hot plug enables virtual storage and network devices to be added to or removed from virtual machines without downtime.  Hot extend of virtual disks allows virtual storage to be added to running virtual machines without downtime. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 15

[ VMware vStorage API  Provides greater flexibility for VM data access to VMware ESX backup vendors (block-level VM access to VMDK files). VM VM VM (1) Snap Shots  Implements new vSphere VM functionality that is not available through VCB, like (2) Backup Agent Backup Server Mounts Snap Shots changed block tracking Backup Agent (today), and fault-tolerant • Server Can Be Physical or Virtual VM backups (in future).  Single-vendor support for (3) Backup To Media your backup solution. Tape Disk  No extra application to monitor. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 16

[ VMware Snap Shots  A snapshot preserves the state and data of a virtual machine at a specific point in time.  You can create snapshots, revert to any snapshot in the chain, and remove snapshots. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 17

[ VMware Site Recovery Manager  Discover and display virtual Primary Site Recovery Site machines protected by storage replication. vCenter Server vCenter Server  Create and manage recovery SRM Server SRM Server plans. ESX Resource ESX Resource Pool Pool  Extend recovery plans with custom scripts.  Monitor availability of remote site and alert users. Replicated Storage SAN SAN  Store, view and export Infrastructure Infrastructure results of test and failover execution from vCenter Server. Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Hardware Capability  For approx $50,000 it is possible to spec a 32-core quad Xeon X7560 system with 512GB of RAM. For comparison, to achieve similar  performance benchmarks utilizing an IBM Power 750, one would have to spend well over $125,000. The latest generation Intel  Processors can now perform as well as their RISC counterparts in high performance computing applications at a much more reasonable price. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 19

[ Review of Supported OS & DB Operating Systems Databases Microsoft Windows 2003 DB2 for LUW 9.X   Microsoft Windows 2008   Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Microsoft SQL Server 2008   RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5  SAP MAXDB 7.6+  SUSE Linux Enterprise 9   Oracle 10.1+  SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11  Real Experience. Real Advantage. 20

[ Uptime and Business Continuity  SAP in a virtualized environment can meet even the most rigid uptime and business continuity requirements.  Let’s look at an example: Lumber Liquidators Implementation. Real Experience. Real Advantage. 21

[ Lumber Liquidators SAP Environment Development Quality Production • ECC • ECC • ECC • BW • BW • BW • PI • PI • PI • Portal • Portal • Portal • Solution • Solution Manager Manager Real Experience. Real Advantage. 22

[ Lumber Liquidators ECC Landscape ECC ECC Quality ECC Development Production • CI/DB • ASCS • ASCS • PA • PA • DB • DB Real Experience. Real Advantage. 23

[ Lumber Liquidators VM Infrastructure Application Layer and Hypervisor Development Quality Production • ECC • ECC • ECC • BW • BW • BW • PI • PI • PI • Portal • Portal • Portal • Solution Manager • Solution Manager vSphere Hypervisor Hardware Cloud Host Layer Storage Layer Real Experience. Real Advantage. 24