Adaptive Computing Capabilities

Adaptive
Adaptive Computing
Computing Controller
Controller (Release
(Release 7.20)
7.20)
 Automatic landscape detection  Resource Management  Integration of infrastructure
 Scalable and secure mass start /  Landscape wide resource and technologies: OS / storage /
stop / relocate operations instance availability monitoring hypervisor

Traditional Landscapes Adaptive Landscapes Virtualization based Landscapes

Virtual host OS OS
names Virtual Virtual
OS OS OS OS
Machine (VM) Machine (VM)
HW … HW HW … HW
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Landscapes

HW … HW
SAP instance
Local FS Local FS Central Storage Central VM
located on central
images with
storage installation Central Storage

SAP systems run on physical computing SAP systems run on physical computing SAP systems run on virtual computing resources:
resources: resources with virtual host names:
SAP installation within virtual machine template
Functions

Installation sources on local file systems

Coupling of software and hardware

Start, Stop and Mass Operations
Partner Technology
Partner

Installation sources on central storage system

De-coupling of software and OS through use
of virtual host names

Flexibility (start, stop, relocate) on application
level
Partners provide libraries with their
or de-coupled from the OS (“according to
adaptive concept).

High flexibility: Virtual machine based (live)
migration

Relocate across physical & virtual servers
Collaboration currently with the following

Traditional Partner Relations technologies: partners:

OS (AIX, HPUX, Linux, Solaris, Windows)
VMware, IBM, Novell

Storage (NFS, Fiber channel, iSCSI)

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