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works, Inc. White Paper
ENHANCING SAP® PERFORMANCE WITH
SOLID STATE STORAGE
Executive Summary
Running SAP can provide many advantages for anization. It provides a unified
framework that permits all departments to get the information required by that group and
allows upper management to review the entire operation of anization without having to
interface with many different systems to collect data.
The advantages SAP brings to anization may, however, be reduced because SAP is an
application that is extremely demanding on system resources, particularly those of the disk
storage subsystem. One method of improving SAP performance is adding a solid-state disk to
house the most frequently accessed files. This approach has the advantages of being easy and
quick to install, provides immediate improvements in the range of 30%, is portable so it can be
installed on puter system without regard to the manufacturer and without requiring any
changes to the operating system or the installation of special drivers.
Background & System Configuration
A major semiconductor equipment manufacturer located in Silicon Valley had installed SAP R/3
version in 1995 and later upgraded SAP to R/3 . The system consisted of an HP 9000
model T520 Database Server with 8 CPUs, 2 GBytes of RAM and an EMC Symmetrix that h