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User Guide
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1 SAP Adaptive Computing Overview
This chapter describes the following:
• Application Integration Software for SAP ACC
With the increasing complexity and inflexibility of the traditional SAP® environment, it has become
necessary to rethink the way that a SAP environment is managed. With the SAP Adaptive
Computing Controller (ACC), SAP has taken the first steps in improving the management of the SAP
Landscape and has provided a number of integration points for vendors to extend the Adaptive
Computing Controller functionality.
This document describes the solution from Hewlett-Packard (HP) to extend SAP Adaptive Computing
environment enabling the support of Storage Area Network (SAN) attached storage from HP. The
document provides background information about the adaptive computing concept and the specific
integration points used by HP. This user guide also describes the usage of the integrated solution
with the SAP ACC in detail.
The basis of the SAP ACC is to virtualize the SAP application from the underlying computing
environment and to arrange the software services together in a group of resources that can start,
stop, or be moved from any system, at any time, when needed, where needed. The process of
abstracting the SAP software from the underlying hardware is known as Service Virtualization, and
it requires that the SAP instance and all resources necessary for the virtual resource be independent
of any physical system or system resource. This includes the IP address or host name for the software
service, as well as any storage used by the service.
The benefits of implementing an adaptive computing environment include the following:
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Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Better server utilization
• Better control of IT landscape
• Higher service levels at lower cost
• A standard approach to the four basic building blocks of your IT landscape: computing,
network, storage, and management
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Productivity
• Faster response time to business-driven needs
• Reduced operation complexity
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Flexibility
• Ability to assign and use hardware resources when needed
• Ease of adding or modifying hardware components in the landscape