Microsoft Hyper-V Wh

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Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 SAP ERP*

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Virtualization Performance of SAP ERP*Intel Solutions on the ®Series with Microsoft Hyper-V Xeon® Processor 5500 *

Overview

SAP, one of the leading vendors of enterprise software, offers a broad portfolio of solutions addressing key business functions such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),* Customer Relationship Management (CRM),* and Warehouse (BW).* SAP solutions give local and global companies the power to adapt quickly and cost-effectively to changing business, market and industry requirements.

Running large-scale enterprise solutions in a data center — especially mission-critical solutions such as ERP — requires significant amounts of hardware infrastructure. It requires servers for testing new programs and functionality, servers to verify and implement upgrades and patches, and others to run the production systems. But by running supported SAP solutions in a virtualized environment, all these needs can be met with fewer servers, maximizing benefits from your SAP software while lowering data center costs and increasing business agility.The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500Δ series with a new generation of Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, helps achieve near-native performance and near-linear scalability for SAP ERP in a virtualized environment, to help lower IT costs and increase agility without compromising performance. With automated energy-efficiency features, the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series also scales energy usage to workload requirements, delivering optimal performance/watt.