Why IBM Power for SAP by John Hedge
- 1. © 2014 IBM Corporation Power Systems Deliver Dynamic Efficiency Business Analytics Enhanced Compliance IBM Power Systems is the ideal platform for SAP Leadership SAP performance and scalability combined with Enterprise class virtualization enables lower costs and greater flexibility Lower TCO leveraging the isolation, resilience, and flexibility of PowerVM to consolidate SAP production, non-production and HA landscapes together to achieve greater utilization and IT efficiency – leading to lower CapEx Enhanced Active Memory Expansion can increase memory capacity 100%, lowering costs or increasing flexibility Less capacity needed with Power to address peak rates with Elastic Capacity on Demand compared to x86 (requires capacity provisioning for peaks) Higher performance across all classes of systems, e.g. 107% more SAP users on Power 2S system compared to IvyBridge EP, 116% more SAP users/core compared to IvyBridge EX 2S system Comprehensive database support allow full virtualization of all components and fewer systems compared to limited support for x86 virtualized environments Resiliency with up to 1/6 of the planned and unplanned outages of x86, Itanium and SPARC platforms and 85% fewer performance problems*** Unconstrained and seamless scalability to enable largest SAP instances demanded by huge transaction rates and growth; near linear scalability proven by SAP SD 2-tier benchmark vs. only 63% scalability published by VMware Trusted Security - Up to 90% cost reduction in avoiding vulnerabilities vs. x86 No reported security vulnerability in PowerVM Hypervisor An order of magnitude fewer vulnerabilities in AIX compared to competition PowerSC reduces OpEx for “trusted” environment and compliance enforcement Streamlined operations leveraging SAP Landscape Virtualization Manager and System Director/VMcontrol *** Business Impacts on SAP Deployments Solitaire Interglobal Ltd (All rights reserved); October 2013. Power 770 Power 780 Power 750 Power 795 Power 760 Open Innovation to put data to work Power S814/824 Power S822