SAP supports VMware as a platform for applications based on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform running in all environments on Windows or Linux on industry standard x86 servers. In Walldorf, Germany,VMware has an office at the SAP partner port and a Virtualization Competency Center (VCC).

Alliance Overview

VMware Infrastructure supports SAP solutions on both Windows and Linux, on industry-standard hardware in all environments. SAP and VMware provide cooperative support services, backed by dedicated support staffing and processes.

VMware, with AddOn Systemhaus GmbH, offers the VCC for SAP where prospects and customers can:

• Learn about virtualizing their SAP solutions
• Perform proofs of concept
• Get assessments of SAP landscapes and recommendations about possible cost savings through virtualization
• Get training on VMware software

VMware is a member of the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, California, where, together with their partners, VMware and SAP develop the latest virtualization solutions and customers can see the benefits provided by these solutions first-hand. VMware is also a charter member of the SAP Enterprise Virtualization Community, an initiative to help customers create and manage virtual environments to meet evolving business needs.

Key Customer Benefits

VMware solutions constitute a flexible, cost-effective platform for SAP implementations. With VMware Infrastructure, SAP solution- based environments can cost less and be more productive than within a purely physical infrastructure. From server consolidation to business process automation, the full range of virtualization benefits can be applied to all SAP deployments.

Capabilities and Industry Expertise

• Upgrades: Deliver faster, safer upgrades to SAP solutions-based environments
• High availability and business continuity
• System monitoring and maintenance: Provide live system data on the entire landscape with VMware VirtualCenter
• Operational flexibility and cost savings:
• Deliver faster deployments with VMware templates
• Facilitate serviceability with VMotion and VMware Storage VMotion
• Consolidate and contain server sprawl
• Set up a wider patch testing framework
• Match resources with business requirements
• Enterprise Services Oriented Architecture:
• Facilitate integration of different applications and data
• Easy transport of business processes
• Enable ESOA at reduced cost
• Regulatory compliance:
• Simplify legacy system maintenance and migration
• Faster deployment of approved server configurations
• Defined systems provisioning with VMware templates
• Documentation of approved deployments with snapshot technology

SAP Testimonials

"We are very pleased with the results of virtualizing our SAP environment. With VMware VMotion, we can do both scheduled and on-the-fly maintenance with zero downtime. We get excellent stability, as well; we can allocate resources as necessary to meet changing workloads without interruptions to our users.... VMware software has changed our whole concept of how to support SAP solution-based infrastructure, and we're able to serve the company much better than we could before...."
Dave Swan, senior manger of IS&T Server Operations, EFI

Alliance Focus Areas

• Upgrades
• Landscape consolidation, optimization, maintenance, and management
• Application life-cycle management
• Enablement of eSOA

About VMware

VMware is a global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. Organizations of all sizes use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments, and respond faster to changing business demands.

Contacts

Christoph Reisbeck
Director, Global SAP Alliances
+49 89 3706 17 074 (office)

Matthias Czwikla
Sr. Business Development Manager, SAP
+49 6227 381 214 (office)

Joachim Rahmfeld
Sr. Business Development Manager, SAP
1-650-427-2348 x72348 (office)

Wee Meng Thoo
Sr. Technology Alliance Manager, APAC
+65 6501 2025 (office)

Michael Hesse
Staff Systems Engineer, SAP
+49 89 3715 64049 (office)