Red Hat has announced new steps in its collaboration with SAP focused on virtualization. Red Hat is working with SAP to provide customers with easier deployments of SAP applications on physical Red Hat servers, in virtualized environments or in the cloud. The news comes as Irfan Khan, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sybase, an SAP company, delivers a keynote address at the Red Hat Summit event in Boston.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers a virtualization management solution for server and desktop virtualization. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is certified for running SAP business applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this, customers gain a virtualization platform with the ability to scale to support growing numbers of workloads and users as well as compatibility between Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the SAP ecosystem, all based on open source
virtualization technology.
In two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmarks, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor running the SAP ERP 6.0 application achieved leading performance results. These results were achieved using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on KVM with IBM System x processors and with Cisco UCS systems.
