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Business and technology considerations influence the sizing of the hardware infrastructure. Work with Dell representatives to determine a solution design that includes business requirements for performance, response times, availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for your SAP systems.
The following table describes the steps for sizing the infrastructure requirements for your solution.
Step | Activity | Performed by |
1 | Determine the number of SAP production systems that you need. | Dell Technologies completes these steps when collecting your business requirements.
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2 | Define the SAP system landscape. Typically, each SAP production system (ERP, BW, CRM, and so on) has its own SAP system landscape, consisting of a DEV, QAS, SBX, and PRD environment. | |
3 | Determine if virtualization is to be used. | |
4 | Determine the high availability requirements. | |
5 | Determine the disaster recovery requirements and the number of data centers or sites involved. | |
6 | Consider data protection requirements for backing up the SAP systems. | |
7 | Determine an expected annual data growth and the number of years of maintenance required. | |
8 | Size each of the SAP systems and system landscapes using the SAP Quick Sizer tool on your production systems. | You complete this step and then provide the results to Dell Technologies. |
9 | Calculate the total compute requirements and determine the number and models of servers (CPU, memory, storage) that are required to support the workloads. | Dell Technologies completes these steps using the information that you provide in step 8.
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10 | Calculate the total storage requirements based on capacity or IOPS or both, and use the PowerMax Sizer tool to size the PowerMax array. | |
11 | Determine the backup capacity requirements for Data Domain. |