On March 19th, 2013 Cisco announced thebest 2-socket virtualized SAP SalesandDistribution (SD) Benchmark resultina Linux environment with the Cisco Unified Computing System? (Cisco UCS?)deliveringhigh scalabilityandlow latencyinvirtualized SAP Business Suite deployments.

Cisco's benchmark result for the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server show support forup to 5530 concurrent usersand a SAP Application Performance Standard(SAPS) score of 30,270derived from the processing of 605,330 order line items per hour and 1,816,000 dialog steps per hour. This result demonstrates that a Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server configured with a LSI 400-GB SLC WarpDrive can deliverhigh scalability and low latency in virtualized SAP Business Suite deployments.

The tested configuration consisted of a Cisco UCS chassis equipped with oneCisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Serverrunning Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4 on KVM. The server was configured with two 2.90-GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2690 CPUs and 256 GB of 1600-MHz memory. The blade server ran both the SAP Business Suite application software and the 64-bit Sybase ASE 15.7 in a single virtual machine. SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 6.0 was used in this scenario. The Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server recordedthe best two-way virtualized SAP SD Benchmark resulton SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 and Sybase ASE 15.7. In the test,5530 SAP SD Benchmark userswere supported while a consistent applicationresponse of less than one secondwas maintained.

 The "Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: High Performance and Flexibility for Virtualized SAP Business Suite Deployment" Performance Brief provides additional benchmark configuration details.Official Benchmark Certification is available at the SAP? Standard Application Benchmarks certification web site.

Many business organizations currently struggle with the cost of maintaining RISC processor-based servers running proprietary operating systems and third-party database management systems. Cisco UCS enables organizations to uselower-cost industry-standard x86-architecture servers, open source operating systems,database management systems,and allows organizations to run SAP Business Suite applicationsin virtualized environments.With Cisco UCS, organizations caneasily balance workloadsacross a pool of servers tomanage service levelsaccording to business priorities,scale environments up and downas needed, andcontain costs by consolidating workloadsonto a smaller number of servers.

Using the Cisco UCS, IT departments can run virtualized SAP Business Suite applications with theflexibility, scalability, and lower cost of virtualized environments.Theseinnovationsdeliveringhigh scalability and low latency in virtualized SAP Business Suite deployments and the dramatic reduction in the number of physical components requiredillustrates the value created by Cisco UCS solution for customers planning migration away from proprietary RISC/Unix based systems to open source operating system software and standards-based computing infrastructure.

For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS solutions please visit www.cisco.com/go/ucs

Girish Kulkarni

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Unified Computing System 

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