Organizations have historically run mission-critical SAP applications on expensive, high-performance UNIX systems, but impressive performance increases made by Linux on x86 hardware are allowing organizations to deploy SAP on the more cost-effective and easy to manage x86 platform while maintaining up-time and performance.
Costs are significantly lower with x86 than with any other CPU architecture, and analysts have found that on a performance level, x86 CPUs from Intel are likely the best solution for SAP applications and databases. In this paper we’ll show you three different example architectures of SAP applications running on the SAP NetWeaver platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system and Dell x86 PowerEdge servers.
The small, medium and large examples that follow will help you see what your organization’s SAP application might look like on SUSE and Dell. Accurate sizing for SAP solutions is an intricate and detailed process, and there are multiple methods to determining how many SAPS you will need. For detailed sizing work you can use SAP’s Quick Sizer tool to translate usage in to SAPS.
Costs are significantly lower with x86 than with any other CPU architecture, and analysts have found that on a performance level, x86 CPUs from Intel are likely the best solution for SAP applications and databases. In this paper we’ll show you three different example architectures of SAP applications running on the SAP NetWeaver platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system and Dell x86 PowerEdge servers.
The small, medium and large examples that follow will help you see what your organization’s SAP application might look like on SUSE and Dell. Accurate sizing for SAP solutions is an intricate and detailed process, and there are multiple methods to determining how many SAPS you will need. For detailed sizing work you can use SAP’s Quick Sizer tool to translate usage in to SAPS.