Last year I wrote a quick article about Virtualization support for BusinessObjects.
Since that time, SAP has been doing a lot of testing and refinement to guidelines regarding virtualizing your BI 4 environment.
Originally only advertised to a handful of attendees at Sapphire the www.sap.com/bivirtualization link has had over 1,000 views per month.
This is the official guidance you should be pointing all customers, partners and employees to when it comes to BI 4 virtualization. This document can be used by your BI team to make sure and negotiate the right sized infrastructure from your IT team for a large scale move to BI 4. Don’t get caught short.
Ashish Morzaria has done a great job and putting everything together in one place. He’s collected feedback from actual customers together with performance tests that have been run internally at SAP. All this information is put together in a 42 page everything-you-need-to-know whitepaper on VMWare ESXi 5:
http://www.sap.com/bivirtualization
Check it out!
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Hey; a few months back i did some BOE training support with Mico (Everything Xcelsius) and this group out of Israel using BOE4 and Amazon Web services / local VMWare. At one point we had 4 BOE servers and over 30 clients with gi-nourmous memory and CPU loads concurrent. Let me know if you would like to see some of the lessons learned there.
Angel