Sap Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for Mysap.Com - Softcover

Missbach, Michael; Hoffmann, Uwe M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130280844 ISBN 13: 9780130280848

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

Most SAP books focus on software: this one focuses on the underlying hardware, offering practical, business-oriented recommendations for maximizing performance, availability, manageability, and cost-effectiveness. Written by two leading Hewlett-Packard SAP experts, it covers every hardware component that impacts SAP application components in mySAP.com, including servers, storage, desktop clients, LAN and WAN infrastructure, backup systems, even printers.KEY TOPICS:The authors begin by reviewing the server technologies commonly used today for SAP projects, covering support and certification requirements, the roles of the database, application server, and other servers typically found in the SAP environment; performance benchmarks, scalability, and server consolidation. They review server sizing in depth, covering information gathering, analysis, and planning for future growth, and presenting real-life examples. Next, they offer guidance on disk storage, including best practice tips for SAP database disk layout, and new technologies such as Storage Area Networks (SANs). The book includes detailed coverage of disaster recovery, including sophisticated zero-down-time backup and remote database mirror solutions; clustering and automated failover for high availability; and requirements for client PCs, printers, and output management systems. The book's extensive section on networking covers everything from network architectures and IP address structures to the physical components of a SAP network, including innovative high-availability approaches to cabling infrastructures. mySAP.com Internet-based solutions are reviewed in the context of their impact on servers and networks. MARKET:For every IT manager, hardware infrastructure and network planner, consultant, and business manager responsible for SAP implementation and/or performance.

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About the Author

MICHAEL MISSBACH, Ph.D., is a senior consultant at the SAP-HP International Competence Center in Walldorf, Germany, specializing in IT infrastructure solutions. He holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in material science from the University of Karlsrühe, Germany.

UWE M. HOFFMANN is a senior consultant at the SAP-HP International Competence Center in Walldorf, Germany, specializing in developing and delivering HP SAP training courses. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA, with a decision science focus, from Santa Clara University, California.

From the Back Cover

• Introduction to designing robust, rock-solid SAP hardware infrastructures!
• Maximize scalability, availability, and value
• Hardware sizing: review of techniques with examples

All you need to know for designing hardware solutions for mySAP.com: Maximizing performance, availability, and value!

This is the first SAP book to provide a comprehensive overview of the hardware solutions needed for your mySAP.com implementation! You'll find practical, business-oriented recommendations for maximizing performance, availability, and value, covering every relevant hardware component-servers, storage, front-ends, LAN and WAN infrastructure, backup solutions, even printers. Authored by two of HP's senior consultants specializing in enterprise SAP infrastructure design, SAP Hardware Solutions addresses all this, and more:

• Review of sizing techniques for servers, storage, LANs, and wide area bandwidth: practical examples and scenarios
• High availability: zero-down-time backup, remote database mirroring, clustering and other failover solutions, towards fault-tolerance, and more
• "Best practice" storage design techniques: optimizing database disk layouts, considering SANs, and a unique approach to disk system design for performance
• Translating business requirements into practical, cost-effective hardware solutions
• Leveraging the cost and management benefits of server consolidation

You'll even find never-before-published guidance on architecting networks for SAP—covering everything from IP address structures to high-availability cabling infrastructures.

With SAP Hardware Solutions, your most business-critical application can be designed to deliver every ounce of reliability and performance you've paid for. You can't afford anything less!

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130280844
• ISBN 13: 9780130280848
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 374