SAP Virtualization Week
Controlling Change of SAP in a Virtual Environment
According to industry analyst firms, 50-80% of incidents are caused by poorly implemented change. Without a good understanding of run-time dependencies between SAP business applications and non-SAP applications, their software components and physical and virtual hosts, change control and manageability suffers. Firms must be able to automatically discover the relationships between applications and infrastructure components to fundamentally change the way IT operations assess and manage the impact of change – a challenge that is only complicated by the advent of server virtualization.
The proliferation of virtual machines creates ambiguity in the system structure and can lead to “virtual sprawl.” The more VMs a firm has, the more complex it becomes to efficiently manage the dependencies between SAP and other business applications, virtual machines and the supporting infrastructure.
In this session, Richard Muirhead, CEO and Founder of Tideway Systems will examine these manageability challenges in a virtual SAP environment and offer tips on how to:
• Track and compare changes over time to various components for SAP software packages
• Analyze business impact of changes in multi-tiered applications not only limited to SAP
• Map dependencies from SAP business applications down to the underlying infrastructure
• Index and visualize VMs, map their dependencies to physical hosts and identify application components on a VM
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