BIA running under VMware

Please don't flame me as I am just trying to understand licensing, scalability, and cost of this solution. My understanding of the BIA appliance consist of Linux blades (16GB of memory), share SAN disk subsystem (GPFS configured), isolated switched infrastructure, and the application software (TREX). Speaking to the physical configuration, this could all be virtualized into a custom VMware configuration where you could maintain/guarantee a high level of performance for disk, network, and Linux guest/blade performance. Now for some of my questions.
My understanding of the license is per 16GB where 16GB is the max per blade. This license is for production usage and would be priced different in a dev/test environment. Is this correct? To move a dev blade to a production blade center would have a license cost, correct? Also, if this solution was virtualized, an additional license would be needed when adding new virtual Linux guests to the solution.
Based on licensing, would it be possible to virtualize the dev/test environment for no or little cost and concentrate the hardware solution to production usage?
What have people done when they max out their current blade center (10 or 14 depending on HP or IBM)? Just buy another appliance? It would see easier to support a configuration where you could add a VMware guest and just purchase the additional software license. A win for SAP and the customer! This would allow an easier scalability path when loads increase. I haven't heard/read about processor being a bottleneck so I have left this out but please let me know if this is an issue.
I know this is easier said then done but with virtual being supported in all other areas of the SAP landscape, it would make sense to allow it to creep into the BIA solution.
What do you guys think? Am I crazy for even thinking it possible?
Thanks,
Steve

Hello Steve,
first about licensing... There are no SAP license fees for the non-productive blades. If you move blades from dev/qa system to production, then you new license fees are due. Please talk to your SAP account executive in this case.
Next about virtualization... BI Accelerator is all about performance. BIA is highly optimized for parallel processing and taking advantage of Intel CPUs. VMware or other attempts to virtualize BIA will not get even close to the real deal. It's basically a waste of time to even try.
Nevertheless there is one case where it makes sense. For a training system you would not need good performance and you would be using the "virtual BIA" only with a single training user. We have been thinking about it but as you said, it's not as easy as it sounds.
Regards,
Marc
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