HP Storage Essentials SRM Enterprise Edition 6.0 Microsoft Windows Application Integration Software for SAP ACC version A.02.00 User Guide (T4283-96336, July 2008)

User Guide 1
1 SAP Adaptive Computing Overview
This chapter describes the following:
• SAP ACC overview, page 2
• Application Integration Software for SAP ACC, page 10
With the increasing complexity and inflexibility of the traditional SAP® environment, it has become
necessary to rethink the way that a SAP environment is managed. With the SAP Adaptive
Computing Controller (ACC), SAP has taken the first steps in improving the management of the SAP
Landscape, and has provided a number of integration points for vendors to extend the Adaptive
Computing Controller functionality.
This document describes the solution from Hewlett-Packard (HP) to extend an SAP Adaptive
Computing environment to support Storage Area Network (SAN) attached storage from HP. The
document provides background information about the adaptive computing concept and the specific
integration points used by HP. This User Guide also describes the usage of the integrated solution
with the SAP ACC in detail.
The basis of the SAP ACC is to virtualize the SAP application from the underlying computing
environment, and arrange the software services together in a group of resources that can start, stop
or be moved from any system, at any time, when needed, where needed. The process of abstracting
the SAP software from the underlying hardware is known as Service Virtualization, and it requires
that the SAP instance and all resources necessary for the virtual resource be independent of any
physical system or system resource. This includes the IP address or host name for the software
service as well as any storage used by the service.
The benefits of implementing an adaptive computing environment includes:
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Better server utilization
• Better control of IT landscape
• Higher service levels at lower cost
• A standard approach to the four basic building blocks of you IT landscape: computing,
network, storage, and management
• Productivity
• Faster response time to business-driven needs
• Reduced operation complexity
• Flexibility
• Ability to assign and use hardware resources when needed
• Easy to add or modify hardware components in landscape