Optimizing SAP Performance: Reducing Costs, Time, and Resources Presented by: Eric Walter EMC SAP Solution Architect 1
Agenda Topics What is SAP? SAP, VMware and EMC Relationship Virtualization of SAP: Managing Sprawl SAP System Refresh Managing Storage Performance and Cost Automated Storage Tiering and Storage Pools All Flash Array Benefits Business Continuance/isaster Recovery SAP HANA 2 2
What is SAP? History of SAP? What does SAP do functionally? What is SAP Netweaver? SAP Components: ECC (ERP Central Core) HCM (Human Capital Management) FI-CO (Finance Controlling) AR (Accounts Receivable) S (Sales and istribution) MM Materials Management) BW (Business Warehouse) CRM (Customer Relationship Management) EP (Enterprise Portal) 3
SAP, EMC and VMware Memorandum Of Understanding 4 4
Three Partners in strategic alignment VMware Storage APIs SAP VM SAP HANA ata Protection Converged Infrastructure Business Continuity 5 See Original Press Release on SAP.COM 5
Typical SAP andscape 6
SAP ogical Infrastructure 7
SAP Production andscape Sandbox evelopment Quality Assurance Production ECC ECC ECC ECC BW BW BW BW CRM CRM CRM CRM SCM SCM SCM SCM SRM SRM SRM SRM 8
VMWARE VSPHERE 4.1 8 cores 256 GB RAM imited Scalability for mission critical applications VMWARE VSPHERE 5.0 32 cores 1 TB RAM Site Recovery Manager VMWARE VSPHERE 5.1 AN BEYON 64 cores SAP support for VMware has been in place since 2006! Over 20,000 SAP customers leverage VMWare 9
EMC FAST VP For SAP Maximum SAP Performance And Scalability Optimize SAP Workloads On Enterprise Flash rives = 80-140% More efficiency Auto-Tier SAP Workloads Across Storage Resources Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST ) 22% CAPEX Reduction (Cost/GB) 37% OPEX Reduction (Power/GB) everages Intel Xeon Processor Technology Virtual Server Virtual Server Virtual Server ERP CRM BI Virtual Pool Flash FC SATA 10
Provisioning, Tiering, and Policies Example FAST Fully Automated Storage Tiering Examples 11
FAST Continued for Non Production Environment 12
Tablespace Analysis - 03/15 03/22 Top active tablespaces: PSAPSR3, avg/s 2356 with 3.46ms response time 13
EMC SAP Application Management Integration SAP andscape Virtualization Management (VM) Single point of control for SAP Administrators Provision infrastructure in hours instead of days Automate capacity management to react to changing business requirements quickly SAP Solution Manager Management Framework Network IT Infrastructure IT-Infrastructure Servers Virtualization SAP and non-sap Applications Storage Provisioning and data movement orchestrated by VM, via calls to infrastructure services. 14
SAP NetWeaver andscape Virtualization Management 2.0 Feature Overview Third-Party Support & Extensibility Start, Stop & Relocate Systems, Mass Operations Manage Your SAP andscapes System Cloning System Copy/Refresh Automation of operational best practices Reduce time and effort Improve operational agility End-to-End Visibility & Monitoring of all Infrastructure ayers andscape Visualization Automated Capacity Management Simplify landscape management Reduce SAP TCO 15
SAP Repeatable QA Refresh Architecture andscape Virtualization Manager automates the repeatable SAP System Refresh process used to reduce the time required to refresh all Test and ev environments. Integrated process depiction for a Virtual Pool VMAX storage based environment 16
isaster Recovery and Business Continuity EMC Business Continuity for SAP Production Recovery Non-disruptive full rehearsals for full SAP environments SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP VMware SRM VMware Infrastructure VMware Infrastructure Integrated Supports audit requirements Simplifies and automates disaster recovery workflows Setup, testing, and failover Centrally manages and automates recovery plans Recover Point Production Clone VMAX VMAX 17
Business Continuance and isaster Recovery Putting it all together Primary Non-PR/R Or VMotion with VPEX 18
XtremIO flash array Consistent performance 150K 1 IOPS per x-brick Predictable low latency ata Management Unique Content-aware ata Protection One X-Brick 10TB(7.47TB 4 ) /20TB (14.94TB 4 ), 150K 1 IOPS eduplication 2 & Compression 3 Space-efficient Snaphosts/clones Encryption Simple to manage and scale 3-step provisioning no tuning Scaleout architecture 19
Test/ev/NonP R Environment Consolidation 20
EMC SAP Customer Offerings SAP Readiness Training Free 4-6 hour SAP Training during project preparation to familiarize project team of what is to come during SAP implementation from a technical and functional environment SAP Readiness Workshop with SAP, VMware and EMC Bi-Annual SAP Week Meet with SAP experts from EMC, SAP, VMware, and other EMC and SAP partners 21
HANA What is HANA? What is a HANA Appliance? What is TI? HANA Use Cases BW on HANA AMI on HANA for MM with MUS 22
SAP HANA Persistence ayer SAP HANA Node In-memory B ata FS ata evice og FS og evice Storage Array Savepoints (ata Filesystem) In-memory data written to disk in regular intervals (5 mins default) og Filesystem Capturing all B transactions since last savepoint Restore B from last savepoint onwards High IOPS requirement SAP HANA Single Node Used server internal disks (SS, Fusion-io, SAS) SAP HANA scale-out (multi node) Filesystems reside on external storage 23
SAP HANA High Availability All Worker Nodes Are Active HANA Node1 Worker In-memory B HANA Node2 Worker In-memory B HANA Node3 Worker In-memory B HANA Node4 Standby ata1 FS og1 FS ata2 FS og2 FS ata3 FS og3 FS ata1 evice og1 evice ata2 evice og2 evice ata3 evice og3 evice Storage Array 24
ooking ahead: SAP HANA T with Cisco Server Profiles Site A Site B Active HANA Cluster Standby HANA Cluster HANA1 HANA2 HANA3 HANA4 NS Host Mounts Names AN/WAN HANA5 HANA6 HANA7 HANA8 MPFS MPFS MPFS MPFS MPFS MPFS MPFS MPFS M2 M2 M3 M3 CS CS SP-A SP-A VNX5300 ocal SP-B SP-B VNX5300 Remote Consistency Groups Failover & Failback 25
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