Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 Certified for SAP®
Solution-based Production Environments; Maintaining Leading Benchmark
Results and Meeting Customer Needs
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the certification of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.1 for SAP® business applications running on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. This is a continuation of the companies' joint work on
virtualization and an expansion of SAP's certification of the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform release. The certification marks
the latest milestone in a 15-year alliance formed to help simplify
deployments of SAP applications on physical Red Hat servers, in
virtualized environments or in the cloud, bringing new choice to
enterprises worldwide.
Enterprise customers such as TCC Technology Co. Ltd., Thailand's leading
provider of commercial managed hosting and datacenter services, are
turning to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to achieve business
continuity, agility and cost efficiency for their deployments of SAP
applications.
"Although virtualization is an established global trend, we had not used
it to support mission-critical applications until we found Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and applied it to our hosted services for SAP
solutions," said Kosit Suksingha, managing director of TCC Technology.
"It has proven to be reliable, cost-effective and scalable, helping us
to offer commercially attractive hosted services for SAP solutions on a
pay-as-you-go basis."
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the only mission-critical
end-to-end, open source virtualization infrastructure designed for
enterprises that is available today. Providing an open virtualization
hypervisor with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and robust management
tools based on the open source oVirt project, the portfolio delivers
leading performance, scalability, flexibility and cost benefits. Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, available globally today, delivers new
features and integrations spanning scalability, networking, storage and
more.
In addition to achieving leading performance results on the two-tier SAP
Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark announced in
June1 — with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and its KVM
hypervisor running the SAP ERP 6.0 application — Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization has, as of Dec. 1, 2012, attained the seven highest
SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmarks (www.spec.org).
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is available globally for
production use with SAP solutions today.
Supporting quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization delivers industry-leading performance
and scalability. The advancements made in our 3.1 release today are
designed to especially benefit customers running large mission-critical
workloads like SAP applications. The scalability and performance gains
create an even stronger price/performance advantage, and new features
like storage live migration and dynamic resource allocation offer a
better user experience."
Tom Collett, global vice president, Global Technology Partners, SAP
"This marks another important milestone in the 15-year collaboration
between SAP and Red Hat. We continue to drive stronger performance and
compelling cost efficiencies that resonate with enterprise customers. We
look forward to continuing to evolve our collaboration to meet the needs
of our joint customers as they tackle virtualization and cloud computing
deployments."
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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.
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.
Red Hat, Inc.
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