SAP HANA now available on VMware vSphere 5.5

Users of VMware vSphere can now use SAP HANA within this virtualization solution. Also new HANA instances should be possible to provision ' faster this way. Per vSphere instance memory and 32 cores supports up to 1 TB.

VMware and SAP HANA Platform to publish VMware vSphere 5.5 and roll the new version out now at users. vSphere is an important parts of the virtualization solution vCloud their IT environment to better utilization of the company. With the certification for HANA on VMware vSphere users now have even more flexibility.

 

HANA can now be used on VMware 

vSphere in virtualized environments.

vSphere is now available for SAP HANA appliances or on HANA data center solutions on certified hardware for Linux and Windows. Users can use up to 1 TB of storage and 32 physical and 64 virtual processing cores per vSphere instance. As a systems management HANA supported on vSphere vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High Availability (HA).

"Together with VMware, we can now allow users to make business-critical applications running in virtualized environments, and thus we can to switch to software - defined data centers and of course speed up to the cloud," said the newly appointed SAP Co-CEO Bernd Leukert.

Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer, VMware, commented: "Our users build their IT infrastructure from a physical environment to software - defined architecture to. Are you looking for a solution, the agility, availability, flexibility, efficiency and control for the most important and most demanding enterprise environments guaranteed? "

In addition, the two companies will continue to cooperate and allow more capabilities of SAP HANA in virtualized environments from VMware. As concrete Bob Gold of Bob Gold Sand, Staff Partner Architect, Global Strategic Alliances at VMware in a blog, this certification is the result of three years of joint tests. The test team has put special value that really occur any error in the operation.

One of the first pilot customers, Mercedes -AMG. “Mercedes -AMG is now SAP HANA and VMware vSphere 5.5 with a 1 TB storage configuration to accelerate the transition to software-defined data center," said Reinhard Breyer, CIO at Mercedes -AMG. Reinhard could simplify by virtualizing with VMware running in the data center.