Virtual Reality
SAP’s Comprehensive Approach to
Support Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure
22.11.2010
Agenda
1. Today’s Challenges
2. SAP Virtualization & Cloud Management – Today and Future
3. Focus Area’s - Initiatives, Tools and Services
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Greater Performance Despite Shrinking
Resources
Flexibility
IT budgets have
Changes to
been frozen or
reduced
processes require
more flexible IT
Higher operating
“IT-to-market”
costs for IT
takes place at
increasingly
shorter intervals
A large part of the
IT budget is spent
on maintaining
existing equipment
Assurance of
service quality
despite budget
reductions
Costs
Top 10 Technology Priority
Virtualization
Cloud computing
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Ranking
1
2
We understood …
Customers have to:
Reduce IT capital investments and operational costs
Achieve faster time-to-value
Manage the transformation process to embrace virtualization and cloud technology
Customer expect SAP to:
Automate SAP system copy tasks
Enable automated capacity management
Make SAP landscape visible through all layers
Simplify provisioning
Break the barrier between private and public cloud infrastructure.
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Agenda
1. Today’s Challenges
2. SAP Virtualization & Cloud Management – Today and Future
3. Focus Area’s - Initiatives, Tools and Services
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Private Cloud - SAP Support for Virtualization
Technologies today
Application Virtualization
Application
SAP instances decoupled from OS.
Application Virtualization
Operating System
OS Virtualization
Server Virtualization
Hardware
Hypervisor
Virtualization
Server
Partitioning
Detailed information:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/virtualization
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SAP solutions supported on virtualization technology provided by SAP
Technology Partners.
Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure
Application
Automation
Operating System
Virtualization
Standardization
Accounting
Hardware
Cloud Infrastructure:
Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
Extended use of Virtualization
Highly standardized and automated landscapes
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Cloud Types
Private
Public
Hybrid
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Virtualization and Cloud Program
The Mission: Define and develop enabling technology, management tools and value
added services to help customers deploy and manage existing on-premise SAP
applications in virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructures.
TODAY
SAP systems supported to run
on virtualization platforms
SAP management solutions
for physical and virtual
infrastructures
Value Prototyping to provide
SAP landscapes services
Partner network and solutions
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OUTLOOK
Unify currently
available technologies
Extend operation
support to public cloud
infrastructures
Extend collaboration with
cloud partners
SAP landscape management
software (Single unified
management solution)
In Summary
The Solutions and Services will help SAP customers…
Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of their SAP systems
Improve their scalability and business agility
Hide complexity
…by…
Getting a coordinated set of solutions and services simplifying and
optimizing the effort required to provision, deploy, monitor and
manage their SAP systems in virtual infrastructures and cloud
environments
…and
With the input of our customers and partners.
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Agenda
1. Today’s Challenges
2. SAP Virtualization & Cloud Management – Today and Future
3. Focus Area’s - Initiatives, Tools and Services
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SAP Management Platform Overview
SAP landscape management software
SAP Solution
Manager
Virtualization and Cloud Management
SAP Virtual
Appliances
Market
SAP Solutions
Packaging & Deployment
Image Management
…
Application
Connect
SAP Solution
Manager
Applications
Appliances
Virtual Appliance
System Visibility
…
Policy & Governance
Usage
Billing
Virtualization
Connect
OS Connect
Configuration
Copy / Refresh
…
Network
Application
Connect
Partner
Framework
Licensing
Open API
Management
Frameworks
Storage
Connect
Cloud Connect
Physical
Resources
Virtualization
Private
Cloud
…
Custom Exit
Non-SAP
…
…
Storage
Public
Cloud
Hybrid
IT-Infrastructure
This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind,
either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement
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The Future
Future planned focus areas - SAP Landscape Management Solution for Virtualized and Cloud Infrastructures:
End-to-end provisioning of SAP landscapes
End-to-end visibility and management
Automated capacity management
Virtual appliance repository
SAP Solution Manager processes integration
Change-, problem-, incident-management / alerting / technical reporting
Virtual landscape map
Downtime management
End-to-End - system clone, - system copy, - system refresh
Billing
Flexible and Open:
Open API interfaces for easy integration with partners and customers
Support for broad range of operating system, storage, virtualization and adaptive enabled technologies
Solution for small, medium and large enterprise customers
This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind,
either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement
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Multumesc!
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