VMworld 2015 EMEA: Short list of major announcements and resources
Here’s a summary of the major announcements I’ve captured from VMworld 2015 Barcelona DELL / EMC Short video message in the beginning of the general session from Micheal Dell about the transaction to...
View ArticleLego for the SAP Data Center of the Future (Part 1)
Bring-your-own OR converged infrastructure? More and more IT organizations are choosing the converged infrastructure path in order to free up time for application automation, self-service and business...
View ArticleLego for the SAP Data Center of the Future (Part 2)
If you are looking for a Lego approach to build VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center efficiently, then EVO SDDC will be the right choice for you. This turnkey, hyper-converged solution enables the...
View ArticleVirtual HANA: How to configure storage, implement HA and build a shared...
How do I configure storage for vHANA in scale-up and scale-out deployments? How do I implement application aware SAP HANA host auto-failover in virtual environments? What steps need to be taken in...
View ArticleAnother Lego Brick for the SAP Data Center of the Future
EMC and VMware have combined forces to take converged and hyper-converged infrastructure to the next level. As a result of their exclusive partnership they launched the VCE VxRail hyper-converged...
View ArticleSAP on VSAN in a Nutshell
The hyper-converged racks and appliances that I’ve been introducing to you in my blog posts about “Lego for the SAP data center of the future” are based on EMC ScaleIO or VMware VSAN. Whereas earlier...
View ArticleVirtustream xStream with App Director Service Module for SAP
I had the pleasure to develop a hands-on lab for Virtustream xStream and the App Director Service Module for SAP. These are the kind of projects that I love: building out a ton of value-add use cases...
View ArticleSAP on vSphere 6 – an Update
Great news from from SAPPHIRE in Orlando: VMware vSphere 6.0 is now in General Availability with SAP HANA SPS 11 (or later releases) for production single-VM use cases. This allows you to assign up to...
View ArticleBusiness Value of VxRack and ScaleIO
IDC interviewed 10 customers running ScaleIO software-only and/or VxRack FLEX Nodes. These customers represented a cross-section of industries and were evenly split between enterprises and providers of...
View ArticleEnterprise Hybrid Cloud for SAP – an Update
The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud for Solution has been updated to 3.5 a couple of weeks ago, so let’s take a look at SAP specific enhancements to this release, especially the current architecture,...
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