CMI FPE goes with VMware vSphere 4 for improved SAP application performance

VMware, Inc. announced that CMI FPE, the Indian subsidiary of Belgian services and engineering Group CMI (Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie) has implemented VMware vSphere 4, the industry’s most reliable platform for datacenter virtualization, at the vSeminar Series in Mumbai, which was attended by over 350 IT professionals. VMware, Inc. is the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure it’s application had aided the Mumbai headquartered CMI FPE to overcome the limitations of its physical server and improve the performance of the company’s SAP Application threefold.

By implementing VMware vSphere 4, c has been able to overcome all sorts of outages of its physical infrastructure which constricted the company’s performance. Providing smoother performance of the SAP application, VMware has improved CMI FPE’s overall business functionalities – ranging from the company’s sales and distribution to accounting to the management departments. The prime highlights of the implementation include a 4:1 server consolidation ratio and above all improving the utilization rate of server hardware from 10-15% to an unbelievable 70-80%.

CMI FPE is now running nine SAP modules and one custom-built module. These modules enable the business to undertake business-critical tasks ranging from production planning to sales and distribution to human resources management.Deploying VMware has helped CMI FPE immensely in bringing down the outage time, hardware failures and investments on physical hardware.

VMware vSphere 4 is a complete virtualization platform which delivers the efficiency and performance required to run business critical applications in large scale environments. VMware vSphere is the most widely deployed virtualization solution. VMware vSphere 4 aggregates and holistically manages large pools ofinfrastructure – processors, storage and networking – as a seamless, flexible and dynamic operating environment.  Any application – an existing enterprise application or a next-generation application – runs more efficiently and with guaranteed service levels on VMware vSphere 4.  For enterprises, VMware vSphere 4 will bring the power of cloud computing to the datacenter, slashing IT costs while dramatically increasing IT responsiveness.

With groundbreaking new memory management and expanded resource pooling capabilities, VMware vSphere 4.1 accelerates the evolution of datacenters and service providers into cloud computing environments, enabling better utilization, lower cost-per-application and quality of service guarantees for customers virtualizing business-critical applications.