Speed Time to Value for SAP Solutions with Nutanix

SAP software is critical to the success of the world’s enterprises. Up to 75% of all transactions worldwide pass through an SAP system. SAP created it’s latest generation S/4HANA ERP software to address the needs of today’s digital businesses. Most organizations are either exploring their options or planning to move to S/4HANA.

This transition creates significant infrastructure challenges that can have negative impacts on all your SAP stakeholders, including Basis Administrators, developers, IT architects, business units, and infrastructure teams. Maintaining silos of infrastructure for classic and SAP® HANA® landscapes—built-on traditional architecture with discrete servers, networks, and storage—significantly complicates your environment, increasing time, effort, and costs and adding risk

The public cloud is often seen as a solution to these problems, but it can create new challenges in terms of cost, migration complexity, latency, and control. IT teams are looking for the best of both worlds and the ability to leverage both. What if you could get the speed, fractional consumption, and simplified infrastructure management of public cloud with on-premises control and reduced cost and be equipped to move to a hybrid cloud model when you’re ready? Nutanix provides a single hyperconverged infrastructure-based (HCI) platform that delivers exceptional SAP performance, while enabling private and hybrid cloud deployments for both S/4HANA and interim ECC refreshes.

ACCELERATE YOUR SAP JOURNEY

As a leading provider of HCI, private cloud, and hybrid cloud solutions, Nutanix puts your company on a path to greater SAP success. Nutanix was the first HCI vendor certified to run both SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA landscapes. As you plan your path to S/4HANA, Nutanix Enterprise Cloud provides a public cloud experience from your datacenter or colo. A recent IDC report found that Nutanix software delivers:

Faster time to value. Deploy infrastructure 10x faster with up to 82% less staff time required.
Increased business agility. Achieve up to 19% greater developer productivity, and develop apps 27% faster.
Maximum availability and security. Slash unplanned downtime by 85%, backup 72% more frequently, facilitate disaster recovery, and ensure security.
Greater operational efficiency. Manage everything from a single interface with 58% greater efficiency while reducing IT support up to 91% and slashing TCO by 62%.
Simpler path to hybrid cloud. Extend SAP operations to public cloud without losing control, visibility, or access to enterprise capabilities.

NUTANIX HCI: A FLEXIBLE FOUNDATION FOR SAP

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud is powered by the industry’s leading HCI software. Built on a web-scale architecture, Nutanix HCI delivers any SAP application at any scale, while giving you the freedom to choose the best hardware and virtualization software to address current IT realities, business needs, and SAP requirements. Nutanix AHV is built on proven technology and included free with purchase, elimiinating hypervisor licensing costs while further streamlining infrastructure operations.

Nutanix solutions are designed to deliver application performance without the constant tuning of traditional infrastructure. SAP landscapes benefit immediately from better performance, simpler migrations, and rich analytics.

Application and data security. Application-centric security—including microsegmentation, data-at-rest encryption, and automated compliance checks— protect against internal and external threats and help you comply with regulatory mandates.

Advanced data management. Software-defined storage is an integral part of the Nutanix platform, so you can securely store vast amounts of SAP data in block, object, or file format according to your needs. Flexible storage pools simplify provisioning and capacity planning.

Backup and disaster recovery. Nutanix provides native backup and disaster recovery, ensuring that valuable data and critical workloads are always protected and quickly recoverable. Flexible replication options address a broad range of needs. Nutanix also works with native capabilities like SAP BackInt and HANA System Replication (HSR). Partnerships with leading backup vendors including Veeam, Commvault, HYCU, Veritas, and others ensure your data protection needs can be met.

INTELLIGENT IT OPERATIONS AND ADVANCED AUTOMATION

Nutanix software streamlines management activities across the infrastructure lifecycle. Intelligent, one-click operations take the pain and effort out of daily tasks, including installs, upgrades, and workload placement.

Identify and eliminate inefficiencies such as under-utilized resources, overprovisioned VMs, and other hidden cost sinks
Greater operational efficiency. Manage everything from a single interface with 58% greater efficiency while reducing IT support up to 91% and slashing TCO by 62%.
Simpler path to hybrid cloud. Extend SAP operations to public cloud without losing control, visibility, or access to enterprise capabilities. Nutanix improves the efficiency of your IT operations by adding meaningful automation, IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), and easy integration with development pipelines.

Nutanix improves the efficiency of your IT operations by adding meaningful automation, IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), and easy integration with development pipelines.

STREAMLINE HYBRID CLOUD OPERATIONS

Many companies want to move some SAP operations into the public and hosted cloud—for example to support a short-term project or a new geography. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud allows you to extend workloads beyond your on-prem cloud without losing control, visibility, or capabilities. And Nutanix provides data-driven insights that make it easier to choose the right location and infrastructure for each application based on expected costs, operational policies, and SLAs.

DEPLOY WITH CONFIDENCE

Nutanix is the first HCI platform certified for SAP HANA and NetWeaver landscapes. Deploy SAP in production with confidence, with a fully supported solution. A collaborative technical support agreement between SAP and Nutanix ensures joint customers receive seamless support—from setup to operations to optimizing the application stack.

For further information and updated support information, please refer to www.nutanix.com/sap.

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KEY BENEFITS

Run all SAP applications and databases, including SAP HANA, on a single platform to achieve:

Higher Performance and Scalability
Start small and scale business applications, databases, and infrastructure as needs grow, enabling rapid application provisioning and software-as-a-service.

Superior Availability
Keep SAP application servers and databases protected and running with native high-availability, nondisruptive upgrades, support for SAP tools like HSR, snapshot-based data protection, and simple, affordable DR options.

Faster Time to Value
Get up and running in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional infrastructure and reduce overhead using simple, yet powerful management tools providing unprecedented operational insight.

More Confident Deployments
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud is certified for SAP HANA and NetWeaver landscapes, and you benefit from a seamless support experience from SAP and Nutanix.

Infrastructure and Virtualization
Support Fujitsu, HPE, Lenovo, and Dell EMC have certified their platforms to run SAP HANA with Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere. SAP NetWeaver® landscapes currently run on AHV, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V on all supported hardware platforms. For the latest supported platforms, see the SAP HCI certification list here.

A Partner for Your Success
Nutanix is committed to your success. In addition to delivering the industry’s leading HCI platform as recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, Nutanix offers a wide range of services, including assessment and design, application deployment, and optimizing operations, as well as custom services tailored to your needs.
Contact your Nutanix representative or authorized reseller for more information and continue the conversation on the Nutanix Next online community (next.nutanix.com).

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