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SAP Capacity Planning
& Sizing
Geus Technology has the solutions, technical leadership and staff
necessary to successfully guide your organization through an effective
capacity planning to meet current and future need to maintain
performance level of SAP systems. Our consultants, who are recognized
experts in the industry, will provide you with knowledgeable answers,
analysis, recommendation and support for your capacity planning and
sizing requirements.
Capacity Planning
challenges
During the life cycle of SAP application many events triggering
capacity planning and sizing process such as:
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New SAP implementation |
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SAP Upgrade |
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Database growth |
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Increase in user volume |
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Implementing additional functional modules |
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Implementation of additional SAP
components such as BW, CRM, APO |
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Change in hardware, database
technology |
Capacity planning for SAP environment encompasses multiple components
of a SAP system.
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Server hardware capacity (cpu, memory
etc.) |
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Storage capacity and performance |
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Database capacity and performance |
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Database growth and archiving |
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SAP transaction and user load |
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Network capacity and performance |
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User desktop requirement |
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Additional load due to Interfaces
with
other SAP components |
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EDI and data exchange load |
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SAP web application server and portal
capacity requirement |
Capacity planning and sizing
has very important role to play in successful implementation and usage
of SAP environment to meet the company’s business needs with
stable performance and efficiency over a period of time.
One of the important aspect
of capacity planning and sizing is to translate SAP requirement into
available hardware, OS, database, storage, network and backup
technology and implement a flexible and scalable SAP landscape.
Geus’ Capacity
Planning and Sizing Service
Geus Technology has the experience, leadership, and resources to assist
you with a timely, cost-effective, and successful capacity planning and
sizing for all SAP components, interfaces, and add-on softwares. We
utilize SAP’s capacity planning and sizing tools, tools provided
by hardware, vendors, and our own tools, knowledge and experience. The
expertise and experience of our team with all SAP components on various
hardware, OS and database platforms, enables us to assist you with
optimizing the capacity requirement of your SAP environment.
Our approach at a glance
Analysis
If you are in process of implementing new SAP systems, during the
analysis phase of capacity planning, we assist you with reviewing:
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SAP business requirement |
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Transaction volume |
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User load |
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Future growth |
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Capacity requirement for interfaces |
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Add-on software requirements |
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Available hardware, OS, storage, backup
technology |
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High availability and disaster
recovery
requirement |
For existing sap
environment, during analysis phase, we assist you reviewing:
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Current SAP transaction and user load |
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SAP work load analysis and growth
projection |
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Area of capacity bottleneck |
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Database performance and growth |
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Backup performance and growth |
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Requirement due to increase in
transaction, adding users, adding SAP components/module |
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Changes in hardware, OS, and database
technology |
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Requirement due to SAP version
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During analysis phase, our
team will work with you to review various options with hardware,
storage, network, backup, Disaster recovery, SAP landscape, load
balancing, etc. Our team shares with you benefits and issues with
different options.
Recommendation
Based on analysis of business
requirement, current SAP environment and future growth, our team
recommends optimal option to meet your business need covering following
components:
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Server hardware and network architecture |
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Storage and backup hardware and software |
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SAP system landscape and load distribution |
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Disaster Recovery hardware and software |
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Add-on components and interfaces |
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Monitoring future growth and additional
capacity requirement |
Implementation
The implementation phase begins with
approval by customer on recommended options and solution. In this phase
we assist in implementing:
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SAP landscape |
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Server
setup and SAP installation/tuning |
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Database
setup and tuning Backup/restore component |
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SAP
load distribution on new hardware |
Our process is to implement
solution, perform sub-sequent monitoring, analysis and fine tuning to
verify the operation and performance of SAP environment.
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