The September 2023 Open Enrollment for the VMware Guru Licensing Program will begin on September 11th, 2023 and end on September 30th, 2023. What is The VMware Guru Licensing Program? The VMware Guru License Program is one of VMware’s Communities-focused recognition initiatives created specifically for members of the Technical Communities who are not primarily VMware … The post VMware GURU Licensing Program: September 2023 Open Enrollment appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

vSphere 8 for SAP NetWeaver and AnyDB is supported and certified since March this year. In August, Lenovo, Pure, Intel, SAP, and VMware have successfully finished the vSphere 8 validation for SAP HANA on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor 2-socket based server systems, codenamed Sapphire Rapids. I am happy to announce SAP HANA support … The post SAP HANA on vSphere 8 and 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

Happy to announce that VMware vSphere 8 is by now, as part of the General Support Statement for Virtual Environments (SAP Note 1492000), supported for Windows and Linux SAP NetWeaver and AnyDB based SAP applications. For details please refer to the VMware specific SAP Note 1409608 (Windows OS) and SAP Note 2369910 (Linux OS). I also would … The post vSphere 8 for SAP NetWeaver and AnyDB supported and certified appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

  What is The VMware Guru Licensing Program? The VMware Guru License Program is one of VMware’s Communities-focused recognition initiatives created specifically for members of the Technical Communities who are not primarily VMware Products and Solutions specialists but have directly and indirectly made significant contributions to the VMware Users Communities. Started in 2010, participation in … The post VMware GURU Licensing Program: March 2023 Open Enrollment appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

Our last public Scale-Out benchmark was done some years ago with vSphere 6.7 using Broadwell CPUs on 8-socket hosts and 4-socket wide VMs. We have been limited by the vSphere 6.7 configuration maxima’s (128 vCPUs) and the SAP HANA Appliance memory size for Broadwell OLTP workloads, which was 2 TB for a 4-socket SAP HANA … The post SAP HANA Scale-Out support for VMware vSphere 7.0 U3 8-Socket wide VMs with up to 48 TB total Memory appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

Happy to announce SAP HANA support for vSphere 7.0 U3c and later, including vSAN on Intel Ice Lake based server systems. See SAP support notes 2937606 (vSphere) and 2718982 (vSAN) for details. After a challenging validation, a virtual SAP HANA system based on vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 on Intel Ice Lake with up to 40-CPU cores now … The post SAP HANA support for VMware vSphere and vSAN 7.0 U3c on Intel Ice Lake appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

With the successful validation and SAP support for up to 8-socket wide, 12 TB VMs with vSphere (ESXi) 7.0 U3c and later, new scalability and performance heights are now attainable. Our partner HPE recently performed two SAP BW benchmarks on the Superdome Flex 280 server, with 6 TB and 12 TB large SAP HANA 2.0 … The post New Scalability and Performance Highlights of SAP S/4 and BW/4 HANA 2.0 Workloads running on VMware vSphere 7.0 U3c and Cooper Lake 8-Socket Systems appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

While VMware extended the general support period for vSphere 6.5/6.7, which was originally scheduled to reach EoGS (End of General Support) on November 15, 2021 to October 15, 2022, now also this extended time is closing and all customers still running vSphere 6.7 or even vSphere 6.5 are advised to plan the migration to vSphere … The post SAP HANA vSphere 6.5/6.7 Customers – Call to Action (vSphere 6.5/6.7 EoGS) appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

While Cascade Lake 8-socket wide 12 TB VMs with vSphere (ESXi) 7.0 U2/U3 are supported since October 2021, VMware removed the ESXi 7.0 U3 release from our Product Downloads site in November 2021 since select customers had encountered issues while upgrading their environments to the ESXi 7 U3 release. For details please read following vSphere … The post VMware vSphere 7.0 U2/U3c and Cooper Lake 8-Socket Support for SAP HANA appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more

The public cloud is a dichotomy of choice for most companies. On the one hand, organizations prefer to have the flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and simplicity of running systems in a cloud environment. Meanwhile, not every application in their existing on-premise landscape is suitable for the public cloud. SAP customers are certainly no exception. Any IT strategy … The post Virtualization: On-Premise Control with the Flexibility of the Cloud for SAP Solutions appeared first on Virtualize Applications ..read more