SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com [Paperback]

Michael Missbach (Author), Uwe M. Hoffmann (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130280844 | ISBN-13: 978-0130280848 | Publication Date: November 30, 2000 | Edition: 3rd

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. 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. 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, 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. An 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. The mySAP.com Internet-based solutions are reviewed in the context of their impact on servers and networks.

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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!

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3rd edition (November 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130280844
• ISBN-13: 978-0130280848
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Book for beginners or experts, December 11, 2000

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This review is from: SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com (Paperback)

I wish that I had this book when we started our SAP project. This book will help anyone who is thinking about installing or upgrading SAP. It helps explain how SAP software will use the hardware. And how all of the pieces fit together. Even though this book is by HP press it stays true to the theme. They do try and "sell" HP hardware or solutions every once in awhile, but for the most part this book is generic in vendor. You won't go wrong with reading this book or just having it for reference the next time you have to upgrade your hardware or if you are having response problems and need to know how to evaluate your hardware. We have been an SAP customer for six years and have grown up with SAP in the US (started at version 2.1 and have just completed our 4.6 upgrade!).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, January 15, 2002

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This review is from: SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com (Paperback)

I really liked this book. It was very informative. Although published by HP Press, the book talks extensively about other Unix platforms as well as NT. The book is probably one year old by now, but I still recommend it. The authors cover almost every hardware option you can think of. A must read for any IT person planning an SAP Implementation.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference on SAP Infrastructure, May 25, 2001

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Mario Luna Arroyo (Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book to companies that are going to start an SAP project. The book provides the foundation to design and build a solid technical infrastructure for SAP. Moreover, it is easy to read, covers every aspect, and is plenty of examples.

I am an experienced SAP technical consultant and wish this book were available some years ago. On common problem I have seen is that companies don't understand, from the infrastructure point of view, what an SAP project involves. The objective of this book is to make them aware of what they don't know (and could hurt them) at the right time, which is before the project actually starts.