SAP Performance on vSphere With IBM DB2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise

VMware vSphere 4.1 provides private cloud technology to IT organizations looking to save money on hardware costs, offer their companies a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, and guarantee uptime while maintaining and upgrading their software applications and infrastructure. This paper shows how a virtualized SAP environment with IBM DB2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise can support thousands of users by utilizing VMware vSphere 4.1. The results collected with vSphere 4.1 out-of-the-box showed excellent scale-up and scale-out performance.