Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Certified for SAP®
Solution-based Production Environments; Red Hat Achieves New
Virtualization Performance Records
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT AND JBOSS WORLD 2012 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT),
the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced
new steps in its collaboration with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) focused on
virtualization. Red Hat is working with SAP to provide customers with
easier deployments of SAP® applications on physical Red Hat servers, in
virtualized environments or in the cloud. The news comes as Irfan Khan,
senior vice president and chief technology officer, Sybase, an SAP
company, delivers a keynote address at the Red Hat Summit event in
Boston.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers a comprehensive virtualization
management solution for server and desktop virtualization. With version
3.0, delivered in January 2012, Red Hat delivered the first
enterprise-ready, fully open source virtualization platform. Today, Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization is certified for running SAP business
applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this, customers gain a
virtualization platform with the ability to scale to support growing
numbers of workloads and users as well as compatibility between Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and the SAP ecosystem, all based on open
source virtualization technology.
In two two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application
benchmarks, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and its Kernel-based
Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor running the SAP ERP 6.0 application
achieved leading performance results. These results were achieved using
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on KVM with IBM System x processors1
and with Cisco UCS systems2.
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is available for production use
with SAP solutions today.
Supporting quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization is providing an open virtualization
alternative to enterprises around the world, and the latest technology
delivered through the 3.0 platform earlier this year provides
exceptional performance, scalability, security, manageability and cost
benefits. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization available for
production for use with SAP solutions, we're now able to offer these
benefits to joint Red Hat and SAP customers worldwide."
Tom Collett, global vice president, Technology Partners, SAP
"Today
SAP solutions running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization help enterprises to address their challenges of
flexibility and price/performance. This is an excellent step forward
with Red Hat to provide enterprises access to optimized technology from
both companies for customers' virtualization infrastructures."
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1 Two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark
configuration and results for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 on KVM on
Cisco UCS B230 M2 (2 processors/20 cores/40 threads): Running SAP
enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0, Intel Xeon Processor E7-2870,
2.40 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core, 30 MB L3 cache
per processor, 128 GB main memory, one virtual machine using 40 virtual
CPUs and the SAP MaxDB® 7.8 database. Achieved 5,100 SAP SD benchmark
users and 28,080 SAPS. SAP certification number: 2012013.
2 Two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark
configuration and results for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 on KVM on IBM
System x3850 (4 processors/40 cores/80 threads): Running SAP enhancement
package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0, Intel Xeon Processor E7-8870, 2.4 GHz, 64 KB
L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core, 30 MB L3 cache per processor, 512
GB main memory, one virtual machine using 80 virtual CPUs and DB2 9.7.
Achieved 10,700 SAP SD benchmark users and 58,750 SAPS. SAP
certification number: 2012020.
Both results valid as of June 26, 2012. For more details, visit http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
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