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SAP's virtualization and cloud management program aims at providing enabling technology, management tools and value added services to help customers deploy and manage existing on-premise SAP applications in virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructures.
SAP Landscape Virtualization Management is a powerful management tool that helps businesses
- reduce their total cost of operations, and
- enhance their flexibility and business agility
by simplifying and optimizing provisioning, deployment, and management of SAP Systems through the use of virtualization and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud technology.
It is flexible and open, providing open interfaces for easy integration. It supports a broad range of IT infrastructure solutions, and it is fully scalable for any landscape size. The product is available in two editions, standard edition with basic functionality, which is free of charge, and enterprise edition with powerful automation features. For an overview of available documents, click here.
Release 2.0 is generally available since October 21, 2013
The ramp-up of Release 2.0 finished successfully on October 21, 2013. Customers from all over the globe had a chance to verify the product's benefits. You may wonder what's new in LVM 2.0 Enterprise Edition.
Note that SP05 is available for download from the SAP Service Marketplace since June 2, 2014.
Note that SP05 is available for download from the SAP Service Marketplace since June 2, 2014.
It provides a set of fixes.
Also note that Release 1.0 is out of maintenance. Ugrading to to LVM 2.0 is strongly recommended..
For an overview of use cases, features and benefits, see this presentation.
Additional platforms are now supported. Libraries for Solaris and HP-UX platforms are available for download. For general and detailed information, see collective SAP Note 1783702 and related notes listed in that Note.
Current Capabilities
Here are the product's current features at a glance:
- Framework for SAP system clone, copy and refresh, including Post-Copy Automation.
- Capacity management - proposal-based dialog instance scaling
- End-to-end visibility, monitoring and management of SAP and non-SAP applications in virtual infrastructures
- Overview dashboard that you can tailor-fit to your needs
- Landscape visualization, from a high-level landscape view down to the infrastructure level
- Reporting options: on individual systems, and across landscapes
- Customization options
Take a guided tourthrough its key features, which also provides links to further details and some functional demos.
Answers to frequently asked questions are given in an FAQ document.
For further details, see the SAP Help Portal.
Future releases will provide new and enhanced features such as management of SAP systems in virtual and cloud infrastructures, and open interfaces, both outbound and inbound. For a seak preview of planned new features, see the roadmap presentation in the SAP Service Marketplace.
Integration with SAP Partner Technologies
SAP Landscape Virtualization Management provides three main integration points for SAP Partner Technologies.
Recent and Upcoming Events
- Regular classroom training courses are offered by SAP Education in 2014.
- The product has been presented at all major events, in particular, at SAPPHIRE NOW and SAP TechEd.
Related Materials
- Cut Costs and Improve Agility by Automating Common System Administration Tasks - Solution Brief
With SAP Landscape Virtualization Management software, you can automate repetitive tasks and gain unprecedented visibility and control over SAP and non-SAP systems in both traditional and virtual infrastructures. As a result, you can boost efficiency and agility and lower operating costs. Learn more about the key features and business benefits this product has to offer. - SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management - An Overview of Use Cases - White Paper
To help control their IT costs and increase business agility, many SAP customers are turning to virtualization and cloud computing. SAP Landscape Virtualization Management software is a major milestone in the company's virtualization and cloud management program. Learn here about the use cases. - Cloud-Enabling the Enterprise - White Paper
When it comes to cloud computing, the enterprises of today tend to invest in a hybrid approach that allows customers to provision software on on-demand infrastructures which are at the same time hosted on the premises. We refer to this on demand/on-premises hybrid approach as "cloud enabling". In this paper, we talk about the current state of this research and development and its potential for enterprise products and service offerings in general. - Beyond Landscape Virtualization Management – On the Road to an Enterprise Cloud
By combining SAP Cloud Appliance Library with virtualization and cloud services, customers can jump-start their projects and bring the newest innovations from SAP into production in a matter of weeks instead of months, with complete flexibility of deployment choice. To learn more, read this SAPinsider article.
- Oxford Economics: Unlocking the Cloud - A Cloud Platform Overview
Cloud computing has entered the mainstream of enterprise IT, unleashing an array of new opportunities and changing the way technology is used and business gets done.
- SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management on VCE VblockTM System 300 Family
SAP Consulting and VCE have jointly designed a best-of-breed integrated operations architecture, intended specifically for customers that have invested significantly in on-premise SAP landscapes to run their mission-critical applications, and validated it in a lab environment.