Microsoft provides a complete suite of technologies to help enable an interoperable, end-to-end, virtualized infrastructure that can help IT departments maximize ROI and save costs across the enterprise. By consolidating application services on less hardware and simultaneously increasing flexibility and availability, you can lower the TCO of SAP infrastructures.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V provides a low-cost, scalable and highly available platform for server consolidation of SAP solutions. Whether the solution comprises components of a SAP ERP system or middleware components such as SAP BW, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Process Infrastructure, SAP Master Data Management or SAP Mobile Infrastructure, the resource utilization of the SAP infrastructure physical servers can be optimized by moving the components into virtual environments.
Microsoft solutions also improve availability, flexibility and manageability of SAP applications in production, as well as test and development environments, with technologies such as clustering, Quick Migration and the end-to-end management capabilities of Microsoft System Center 2012.