Server Consolidation for SAP ERP* on IBM eX5 Enterprise Systems*
Executive Summary
For many years computer processor performance improvements have been increasing at relatively steady rates indicative of Moore’s Law first espoused in the mid 1960s. While this progression has not been purely linear, the recent introduction of the Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series and 7500 Series processors seem to deviate from this historic trend and offer significantly greater performance per dollar than previous generations of server processors. With support for six and eight cores per processor, the significant jump in performance and efficiency of these latest processors is causing many IT organizations to reexamine their historic server refresh cycles and consider replacing servers sooner than previously scheduled and to migrate from alternative server architectures to servers with these latest x86-based processors.
By replacing current servers with the latest generation of Intel Xeon processor based servers organizations are looking to reduce on-going expenses of their IT operations. In many cases these migration projects are able to reduce annual server related operating costs by up to 80% and pay for themselves in less than a year, based on the low costs of the server hardware. This paper reviews the business case a large chemical manufacturing organization recently put together for migrating their SAP ERP* system from Sun SPARC* based servers to the latest IBM System x eX5 enterprise systems.
The organization had recently acquired a smaller rival company and needed to integrate the information systems of the two organizations to achieve the improved efficiencies they desired from the acquisition. They were also interested in implementing SAP’s Unicode* multi-language support for international operations. These additional processing requirements drove the organization to investigate its upgrade options. The original server environment for the SAP ERP application consisted of a cluster of Sun Fire* V490 servers for the application tier and a pair of Sun Fire V890 servers for the Oracle database tier. Going forward the organization evaluated a Sun SPARC upgrade option and an IBM System x migration option.
Read the full Server Consolidation for SAP ERP* on IBM eX5 Enterprise Systems* White Paper.
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Server Consolidation for SAP ERP* on IBM eX5 Enterprise Systems*
Executive Summary
For many years computer processor performance improvements have been increasing at relatively steady rates indicative of Moore’s Law first espoused in the mid 1960s. While this progression has not been purely linear, the recent introduction of the Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series and 7500 Series processors seem to deviate from this historic trend and offer significantly greater performance per dollar than previous generations of server processors. With support for six and eight cores per processor, the significant jump in performance and efficiency of these latest processors is causing many IT organizations to reexamine their historic server refresh cycles and consider replacing servers sooner than previously scheduled and to migrate from alternative server architectures to servers with these latest x86-based processors.
By replacing current servers with the latest generation of Intel Xeon processor based servers organizations are looking to reduce on-going expenses of their IT operations. In many cases these migration projects are able to reduce annual server related operating costs by up to 80% and pay for themselves in less than a year, based on the low costs of the server hardware. This paper reviews the business case a large chemical manufacturing organization recently put together for migrating their SAP ERP* system from Sun SPARC* based servers to the latest IBM System x eX5 enterprise systems.
The organization had recently acquired a smaller rival company and needed to integrate the information systems of the two organizations to achieve the improved efficiencies they desired from the acquisition. They were also interested in implementing SAP’s Unicode* multi-language support for international operations. These additional processing requirements drove the organization to investigate its upgrade options. The original server environment for the SAP ERP application consisted of a cluster of Sun Fire* V490 servers for the application tier and a pair of Sun Fire V890 servers for the Oracle database tier. Going forward the organization evaluated a Sun SPARC upgrade option and an IBM System x migration option.
Read the full Server Consolidation for SAP ERP* on IBM eX5 Enterprise Systems* White Paper.
