In Microsoft we founded a LOB Practice team a few years back. The first focus of the team was SAP. Hence we hired industry talent out of the SAP space to build the team. People who were running SAP Basis teams or who worked as Enterprise Platform architects...

Partitioning Large NUMA Based Servers into Small VMs - Question from Jason The idea of using a large 4 Processor or 8 Processor server and then dividing this in smaller VM is not recommended both from a cost and performance point of view. This comment...

Windows 2008 R2 - Groups, Processors, Sockets, Cores Threads, NUMA nodes what is all this? Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) technologies have progressed extremely rapidly in the last 10 years. Both Intel and AMD based systems are dramatically different...

SAP will soon support Windows Server 2008 R2. There were massive changes in this Windows release in the area of Virtualization. However besides these changes, there were some more which have implications in how we need to look at the CPU consumption on...

Depending on the SAP and SQL Server release, there are different compression types supported by SAP NetWeaver. Unfortunately the naming convention used by SAP and Microsoft is not consistent. Therefore there was some confusion about this in the past....

SAP have announced full support of SQL 2008 R2 SAP has announced the full General Availability and Unrestricted Support for SQL 2008 R2 as of 16th September 2010. OSS Note 1076022 has been updated with the following text: SQL Server 2008 R2 ...

Today OSS notes # 1488135 and #1459005 was released by SAP. The first note explains SQL Server compression in general and how secondary index compression and page compression is used. The OSS note also has a new ABAP report MSSCOMPRESS attached which...

In SQL Server 2008 the ability to check and configure multiple SQL Server systems with a functionality called Policy Based Management got introduced. The purpose of those Policies is to define basic checks and configurations which are common to all the...