Today's SAP business requirements demand smarter infrastructures with less complexity, more automation, and more intelligence. Drawing on a history of storage innovation and our relationship with SAP that has lasted more than three decades, IBM works closely with SAP to provide a set of solutions designed to help simplify the task of running a dynamic SAP environment. IBM System Storage® solutions for SAP are well-suited for SAP applications such as SAP Business Suite, including SAP NetWeaver technology platform applications, SAP Business All-in-One, SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, SAP appliances, including HANA, Business Warehouse Accelerator and Enterprise Search, and SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Archiving. These solutions can help address your information management needs, enabling you to improve your IT infrastructure efficiency, leverage your business data effectively to innovate and create value, mitigate IT risk, and enable business flexibility.
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- All Storage: IBM and SAP archiving and data management solutions for Banking (282KB)
This brochure introduces the IBM System Storage Archive solution for SAP NetWeaver, R/3, and non-SAP information which can enable financial institutions to advance from individual, siloed risk and compliance projects toward an enterprise-wide risk management strategy.
- All Storage: IBM and SAP archiving and data management solutions for Insurance (300KB)
This brochure introduces IBM System Storage Archive solution for SAP NetWeaver, R/3, and non-SAP information which can help Insurers effectively manage risk and compliance issues in an environment of expanding regulatory requirements and standards.
- All Storage: IBM archiving and data management solution for SAP (862KB)
Introducing IBM archiving and compliance solutions for SAP which can improve SAP NetWeaver and R/3 database operations and protect data for the long term. The IBM System Storage Archive solution for SAP aligns SAP information with business value through management of retention policies and service levels to help ensure your data is available, accessible, compliant and protected.
- All Storage: IBM cloning solution for SAP (572KB)
Companies that run SAP need reliable data protection and automated post-processing when creating cloned instances. Based on IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager, IBM's fast and fully automated SAP cloning solution helps protect critical data and continuous application server availability.
- All Storage: IBM System Storage Solutions for SAP IT environments (223KB)
IBM System Storage solutions for SAP IT environments can help you create an infrastructure that responds to changing business requirements while enabling data sharing and collaboration across your enterprise.
- All Storage: IBM System Storage Virtualization solutions for SAP IT environments (430KB)
IBM System Storage virtualization solutions for SAP IT environments can help you maintain the availability of SAP data and applications and maximize resource utilization while keeping costs under control.
- All Storage: Retail Trilogy IBM Storage Architecture for Optimized SAP Retail Environments (376KB)
This Solution Brief highlights the IBM System storage solutions for SAP retail customers based on the joint Trilogy project with IBM and SAP. IBM System storage provides a scalable platform for SAP retailers.
- DS8000: SAP maintenance solution using IBM Open HyperSwap and IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
IBM for SAP Best practices guide describes leveraging IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility and IBM Open HyperSwap to move running SAP applications between two sites without downtime to prepare for system maintenance work. Open HyperSwap is a high-availability solution that leverages the IBM System Storage DS8000® Metro Mirror feature and is part of the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R) product family. Live Partition Mobility (LPM) allows customers to seamlessly move running partitions from one IBM POWER6 or IBM POWER7 processor-based server to another.
- DS8000: Logical configuration concepts for IBM System Storage DS8000 series in large data centers - Best Practices regarding logical volume layout for databases, ERP systems and data warehouses using DS8000. (2.1MB)
- DS8300: SAP Business Objects Scalability Test (945KB)
This Saturn Executive Report highlights SAP Business Objects Scalability test on IBM Power Systems and IBM Systems Storage DS8300. The report features SAP Business Objects XI on an IBM server and storage architecture for thousands of users.
- DS8800: IBM System zEnterprise, System Storage DS8800, with DB2 10 for z/OS: SAP Banking Services 7.0 150 Million Accounts Measurements
This White paper describes a set of measurements with 150 million loaded accounts, SAP AG’s most recent SBS 7.0, our most recent DB2 10 for z/OS, zEnterprise system, and IBM System Storage DS8800
- ITG Report: Detailed Report: Storage TCO Large Enterprise (534KB)
This detailed report provides a comprehensive analysis of IBM System Storage offerings compared to HP and EMC in large accounts. Complete details for Total Cost of ownership are included. The Competitive TCO detailed report from ITG includes: EMC V-Max vs. IBM DS8000 Systems and HP XP24000 vs IBM XIV Systems.
- ITG Report: Detailed Report: Storage TCO Midmarket (542KB)
This detailed report provides a comprehensive analysis of IBM System Storage offerings compared to HP in midmarket accounts. Complete details for the Total Cost of ownership are included. The Competitive TCO detailed report from ITG includes: HP EVA vs. IBM DS5000 Systems and HP EVA vs. IBM XIV Systems.
- ITG Report: Executive Summary: Storage TCO Large Enterprise (298KB)
This report provides an Executive overview of IBM System Storage offerings compared to HP and EMC in large accounts. This Competitive TCO Executive summary report from ITG includes: EMC V-Max vs. IBM DS8000 Systems and HP XP24000 vs IBM XIV Systems.
- ITG Report: Executive Summary: Storage TCO Midmarket (282KB)
This report provides an Executive overview of IBM System Storage offerings compared to HP in midmarket accounts. This Competitive TCO Executive summary report from ITG includes: HP EVA vs. IBM DS5000 Systems and HP EVA vs. IBM XIV Systems.
- Quick Start Guides to FlashCopy Manager for SAP® on IBM DB2® or Oracle® Database with SVC and DS8000
These papers cover the installation and configuration of FlashCopy Manager 2.2 for SAP on an IBM DB2® or Oracle® database, the IBM Power AIX® operating system, DS8000® Storage Server and SAN Volume Controller.
- Quick Start Guides to FlashCopy Manager for SAP® on IBM DB2® or Oracle® Database with IBM XIV® Storage System
These papers cover the installation and configuration of FlashCopy Manager 2.2 for SAP on an IBM DB2® or Oracle® database with the IBM Power AIX® operating system and XIV® storage servers.
- Storwize V7000: Disaster recovery for SAP with VMware Site Recovery Manager on IBM Storwize V7000 storage system
This paper describes the steps how to install and configure a disaster recovery environment using VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.1 (SRM) in an existing VMware environment with SAP as the main application. VMware Site Recovery Manager, together with the IBM Storwize V7000 system and the FlashCopy and Metro Mirror function, provide the ability to easily implement a disaster recovery solution for virtualized environments.
- Storwize V7000: IBM Workload Optimized Solution boost SAP Order-to-Cash using IBM System Storage V7000(524KB)
This solution brief highlights specific performance capabilities of IBM Storwize V7000 with SAP applications developing a Proof of Concept (POC) reference architecture. The tested IBM Solution configuration during the POC used the following components: IBM DB2, SUSE®Linux Enterprise Server, IBM System x eX5 servers and IBMStorwize® V7000 with Easy Tier. IBM DB2 delivers strong value to SAP customers.
- Storwize V7000: Quick-start guide to FlashCopy Manager for SAP with IBM Storwize V7000, IBM SAN Volume Controller or IBM DS8000 Storage System
These papers cover the installation and configuration of FlashCopy Manager 2.2 for SAP on an IBM DB2® or Oracle® database, AIX® operating system as well as DS8000® Storage Server and SAN Volume Controller.
- XIV: Best Practices for SAP Applications on an IBM XIV® Storage System
This paper describes the benefits, features and best practices using a XIV in a SAP environment. Benefits include: Balance data and I/O across all physical resources, instant snapshots without significant impact to performance for the Backup and Restore of SAP applications.
- XIV: Best Practices Guide for SAP Applications with IBM XIV Storage System Advanced Features XIV Snapshots for Backup/Restore using TSM for Advanced Copy Services & Thin Provisioning (4.8MB)
The paper describes the key benefits of XIV Storage System Advanced Features for Snapshots Backup/Restore and Thin Provisioning in the SAP environment. It walks through the configuration steps of TSM for ACS in creating the XIV snapshots for the backup and restore in an SAP environment. It also describes using XIV thin-provisioning in achieving improved and optimum storage utilization, and in managing the growth of data in a thin-provisioned storage pool.
- XIV: BigX – An IBM solution for SAP landscapes on Linux that helps reduce complexity, improve utilization, and cut costs (964KB)
Solution brief highlights the IBM SAP joint BigX Proof of Concept demonstrating how the IBM infrastructure stack offers a uniquely integrated, easy to manage and virtualized platform to implement, protect and support multiple mission-critical SAP applications.
- XIV: IBM XIV Storage System for SAP IT environments - Solution brief (227KB)
IBM XIV is a revolutionary high-end disk storage architecture designed to eliminate the complexity of administration and management of tiered storage and information lifecycle management.
- XIV: Migrating an SAP environment from legacy storage to IBM XIV Storage System (191.9KB)
There are many options available for migrating data from one storage system to another. This white paper describes two methods of data migration from legacy storage to IBM XIV Storage System in an SAP environment. The first method describes a procedure for data migration in conjunction with a volume layout change such as logical unit number (LUN) consolidation. A reason for LUN consolidation can be that it might help to gain more advantage of the XIV Storage System architecture. The second method describes the embedded XIV migration feature that enables the easy movement of data from an existing storage system to the XIV Storage System.
- XIV: SAP Implementation and Operation in Integrated Environments
Detailed Technical white paper highlights joint IBM and SAP Proof of Concept combining IBM System x, IBM XIV Storage, IBM DB2 on Linux and VMWare vSphere showing how to help increase SAP application business performance and reduce operational effort for SAP IT landscapes. Joint Proof of Concept by IBM SAP International Competence Center (ISICC), SAP (Center of Excellence / Value Prototyping) and VMware.
- XIV: Utilizing IBM XIV Storage System snapshot technology in SAP environments (1.58MB)
This paper describes a proof of concept conducted to demonstrate utilization of IBM XIV Storage System snapshot technology to backup and provision SAP systems in virtualized SAP environments.
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