The future for SAP HANA Productive on VMware is now! #LowerTCO

I'm watching live the SAPPHIRE keynote speech from Bernd Leukert, and on one side, VMware's CEO Pat Gelsinger comes live through satellite, and at the same time, one tweet led me to an SAP Press Release...

Wow!!!!

Awesome news!

Let me list them all:

1. SAP HANA on VMware, in a single productive VM per physical host is now Generally Available;
2. SAP HANA on VMware with multiple productive VMs per physical host is now released as Controlled Availability;
3. VMware plans to release early in 2015 a new version of vShpere supporting up to 4 TB of RAM in a single VM, which will enable productive HANA systems to leverage that! Just a few months away.
4. VMware is also closely working with SAP to support SAP HANA scale-out in production across multiple VMs.

So, I have to say, to all those system integrators and customers who were waiting for this... if you haven't started yet, the time to start with SAP HANA on your organization is now!!!

Keep a close eye on the following SAP notes:

•  https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1788665 SAP HANA Support for VMware vShpere Environments
•  https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1995460 SAP HANA on VMware vShpere in Production (controlled availability)
•  https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2024433 Multiple SAP HANA VMs on VMware vShpere in Production

Check out all the great add-ons EMC can bring to the table either through the SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration program, or by leveraging the most advanced converged infrastructures from VCE. Read more about this on my blog post here: http://sapinfrastructureintegration.blogspot.com/2014/06/negative-roi-when-considering-sap-hana.html