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06.05.2009
Adaptive Computing Connects
By: Gottfried Welz
Using applications flexibly
The Adaptive Computing Controller tool in SAP NetWeaver acts as a central point of control for processing the tasks initiated (the adaptive computing use cases), while all the infrastructure components, including management software, are provided by HP.
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“Virtualized application services can be used flexibly based on the adaptive computing landscape,” explains Ronny Zimmermann, project lead at UCC Magdeburg. Most notably, the applications are not assigned to a certain server, but can be shifted backwards and forwards to where free server capacities are, depending on need. Furthermore, SAP applications can be dynamically assigned to different servers.
Zimmermann adds, “This enables us to tap the existing resources and spread the load in an optimized and dynamic way.”
Decoupling brings greater flexibility
UCC replaced its previous classic infrastructure with the adaptive computing solution. UCC team lead André Faustmann outlines the reasons for the new approach: “We had to manage our SAP growth on the one hand, and on the other hand, we had to optimize our management of fluctuation in IT utilization to cater to future needs.
We were also required to consolidate – or modernize – our SAP infrastructure. It was important for resources to be used as optimally and flexibly as possible, and increasing cost efficiency played a role, too.”
Consultations and discussions with SAP and HP resulted in an adaptive computing solution concept with the following structure: use of version 7.1 of the Adaptive Computing Controller tool as a central point of control, a division into SAP instances and database instances (with the corresponding servers), and use of a SAN storage pool with the plug-in HP Storage Essentials Application Integration Software for SAP ACC. The concept includes the necessary storage pool mechanisms to make the SAP databases (currently totaling around 46 terabytes) for an SAP system available in the adaptive computing environment.
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