Fujitsu FlexFrame Orchestrator

The Fujitsu corporation provided in the fall of 212 of FlexFrame Orchestrator — the platform of management of data processing centers, used for operation of applications of SAP. All FlexFrame Orchestrator functions for management of IT infrastructure for SAP applications, including resource management and instances of SAP, function of ensuring high availability and disaster recovery of SAP applications, are available to installations of SAP HANA now.

According to developers, FlexFrame Orchestrator allows more than to reduce costs for administration of IT infrastructure for resource management systems of the SAP ERP enterprise, SAP HANA, necessary for deployment, by 50%. Besides, due to integration IT infrasturktury SAP HANA in adaptive IT infrastructures, managed C FlexFrame Orchestrator help, it is possible to provide increase in flexibility, performance and fault tolerance of a system.

"Fujitsu FlexFrame Orchestrator allows suppliers of services to build DPC of real time and to manage them. Now it is the only platform for management of adaptive infrastructure of DPC, compatible to all four models of provision of services which can be requested by clients — said in Fujitsu. — The local IT infrastructure set at the customer, the managed infrastructure, the infrastructure set in a hosting center and also the services provided on cloud model concern them".

Besides, Fujitsu for the first time lifts limits for hardware and the software used for FlexFrame work, providing availability of this solution as a software package. It expands opportunities for use of FlexFrame technology through the program of certification which allows to use the FlexFrame system based on the certified DPCs of third-party suppliers. The approved configurations conforming to the set requirements to the level of opportunities of servers, storage systems and networks allow to implement all opportunities of FlexFrame technology, emphasized in the company.

The technology of data analysis provided in the middle of 2011 in RAM of SAP HANA allows the companies to increase efficiency of decision making based on more effective business intelligence. Implementation of Fujitsu FlexFrame Orchestrator on heterogeneous Wednesday of DPC is possible without suspension of work and provides a possibility of use of a number of functions which allow systems to provide optimum level of performance, creating, finally, highly effective infrastructure for flexible distribution of system resources, claim in corporation. At the same time the administration functions which are built in FlexFrame simplify commissioning and maintenance of all system.

Providing high availability to all computing nodes and optimizing management of all installations of SAP HANA, Fujitsu FlexFrame simplifies infrastructure, eliminating need for direct manipulation with clusters. According to Fujitsu, thanks to runtime allocation of system resources FlexFrame promotes reduction of operating costs. FlexFrame supports dynamic redistribution of processes of SAP HANA between servers, timely and continuously maintaining operability of a system in need of maintenance. The number of the spare nodes necessary for failure recovery is at the same time reduced.

According to Rupert Lener (Rupert Lehner), the senior vice president of division of Fujitsu Technology Solutions which is engaged in development of solutions for business this announcement marks the beginning of "a new era for FlexFrame" as in terms of integrated management of environments of SAP, including the HANA systems, and in terms of a possibility of use of FlexFrame technology with any hardware and in any DPC on condition of accomplishment of the minimum requirements.