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Development costs are one of the primary culprits for the high cost of maintaining an ERP system. One way of reducing costs is to improve the overall efficiency of the development organization by creating a resilient and easily-restored development environment with virtualization.
Issues explored in the webcast include:
- Typical problems with ERP development.
- Where virtualization is appropriate for ERP deployment.
- The benefits of virtualization in development environments.
Control ERP costs by optimizing the development function. Use virtualization as a key enabling function.
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We will be implementing ERP in 2010 and I would like to virtualize the production environment. We have an existing VMWare installation, which I would like to leverage. Why are you not recommending VM for production ?
Virtualizing production databases introduces a number of concerns related to issues such as peak processor loading and spindle loading on a SAN. The vendors have been slow to support virtualized production environments and most IT organizations have lacked the experience with virtualized environments to effectively troubleshoot problems. But this situation is changing. I've talked to a number of clients who have virtualized production environments with few problems and vendors are now offering support. Oracle, for example, will provide support for its database in SAP environments on VMware... but not XEN or Hyper-V. The short story: if you're comfortable running the stack with limited vendor support, virtualize. Otherwise, wait until your next upgrade when support will be widespread.
What about solutions that are recommended by vendors such as IBM PowerBlades running IBM O/S? The consensus at IBM is that this is the direction the iSeries is going for small and medium business. This implementation involves IBM's own virtualization product to run IBM O/S. Would virtualization be recommended for production if the recommendation is based on the direction the manufacturer/developer is heading?