IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP overview

IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP (IDI) is an IBM on demand solution for a 

heterogeneous environment that can enable clients to run SAP environments 

more efficiently by dynamic provisioning of SAP systems. It provides automated, 

policy based, end to end management of resources, availability, accounting, and 

metering information about resource consumption across heterogeneous 

systems, driven by service level agreements. IBM Dynamic Infrastructure can: 

Reduce the high management effort for growing SAP landscapes 

Speed up the deployment of new SAP systems 

Improve the utilization of systems 

One of the main tasks of IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP is to provision 

additional SAP dialog instance servers. It does this by taking servers from a pool 

of free servers and installing an SAP dialog instance server on it. At logon, new 

users are directed to that server, avoiding bottlenecks on the existing ones. The 

provisioning is done dynamically based on the response time defined in service 

level agreements. In detail, for the intent of this paper, the IBM Dynamic 

Infrastructure for mySAP solution provides the following functionality: 

Dynamic provisioning

By allocating and de allocating application server resources based on a 

predefined policy (for example, 80% of dialog steps should take less than one 

second), the system infrastructure shrinks and grows on demand. The 

utilization is increased, the deployment time is reduced, and at the same time 

the systems management is simplified. 

Server consolidation

Sizing of the infrastructure is no longer oriented on peak workload. The usage 

of virtual servers (shared pools instead of dedicated resources) significantly 

reduces the investments in hardware and systems management.

Data security

De provisioned servers are immediately scrubbed, thus ensuring that no 

customer data is transferred between environments. This is a requirement for 

hosting environments, and also has growing importance for internal service 

providers.

Increased average server utilization

IBM Dynamic Infrastructure for mySAP performs automatic resource 

requirements prediction based on predefined service level objectives and 

agreements, and automates infrastructure deployment. This ensures that 

each application has the resource it needs, when it needs it, without static 

overprovisioning.

Dynamic Provisioning of SAP Environments using IBM DI for mySAP and Tivoli Provisioning Manager

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