SAP Hardware Solutions: Servers, Storage, and Networks for mySAP.com (HP Professional Series) (Paperback)

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

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Provides an extensive overview of the hardware needed for a mySAP.com implementation, with a review of sizing techniques for servers, storage, and more. Offers guidance on architecture from IP address structures to cabling infrastructures. Softcover. DLC: SAP R/3.

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!

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• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 3rd edition (November 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130280844
• ISBN-13: 978-0130280848
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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