Optimizing SAP Performance: Reducing Costs, Time, and Resources

Optimizing
SAP Performance:
Reducing Costs,
Time, and Resources
Presented by:
Eric Walter
EMC SAP Solution Architect
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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/Disaster Recovery
– SAP HANA
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What is SAP?
• History of SAP?
• What does SAP do functionally?
• What is SAP Netweaver?
• SAP Components:
– ECC (ERP Central Core)
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HCM (Human Capital Management)
FI-CO (Finance – Controlling)
AR – (Accounts Receivable)
SD – (Sales and Distribution)
MM – Materials Management)
– BW (Business Warehouse)
– CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
– EP (Enterprise Portal)
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SAP, EMC and VMware Memorandum Of
Understanding
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Three Partners in strategic alignment
VMware
Storage APIs
SAP LVM
SAP HANA
Data Protection
Converged Infrastructure
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Business Continuity
See Original Press Release on
SAP.COM
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Typical SAP Landscape
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SAP Logical Infrastructure
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SAP Production Landscape
Development
Quality
Assurance
Production
ECC
ECC
ECC
ECC
BW
BW
BW
BW
CRM
CRM
CRM
CRM
SCM
SCM
SCM
SCM
SRM
SRM
SRM
SRM
Sandbox
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VMWARE VSPHERE 4.1
• 8 cores
• 256 GB RAM
• Limited Scalability for
mission critical
applications
VMWARE VSPHERE 5.0
• 32 cores
• 1 TB RAM
• Site Recovery Manager
VMWARE VSPHERE 5.1 AND
BEYOND
• 64 cores
SAP support for VMware has been in place since 2006!
Over 20,000 SAP customers leverage VMWare
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EMC FAST VP For SAP
Maximum SAP Performance And
Scalability
Optimize SAP Workloads On Enterprise
Flash Drives = 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)
Leverages Intel ® Xeon®
Processor Technology
Virtual Server
Virtual Server
CRM
ERP
Virtual Server
BI
Virtual Pool
Flash
FC
SATA
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Provisioning, Tiering, and Policies Example
FAST – Fully Automated Storage Tiering Examples
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FAST Continued for Non Production Environment
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Tablespace Analysis - 03/15 – 03/22
Top active tablespaces: PSAPSR3 , avg/s 2356 with 3.46ms
response time
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EMC SAP Application Management Integration
SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM)
• 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
SAP and
non-SAP
Applications
Management
Framework
IT Infrastructure
Network
IT-Infrastructure
Servers
Virtualization
Storage
Provisioning and data movement
orchestrated by LVM, via calls to
infrastructure services.
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SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization
Management 2.0 Feature Overview
 Automation
Start, Stop & Relocate
Systems, Mass
Operations
of
operational best
practices
System
Cloning
 Reduce
time and
effort
Third-Party
Support &
Extensibility
Manage
Your
SAP
Landscapes
System
Copy/Refresh
 Improve
operational
agility
 Simplify
landscape
management
End-to-End Visibility &
Monitoring of all
Infrastructure Layers
Automated
Capacity
Management
 Reduce
SAP TCO
Landscape
Visualization
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SAP Repeatable QA Refresh Architecture
Landscape Virtualization Manager
automates the repeatable
SAP System Refresh process
used to reduce the time required
to refresh all Test and Dev
environments.
Integrated process depiction
for a Virtual Pool VMAX
storage based environment
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
EMC Business Continuity for SAP
Production
SAP
SAP
SAP
• Non-disruptive full rehearsals for
full SAP environments
Recovery
SAP
SAP
SAP
SAP
SAP
VMware SRM
VMware Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure
• Centrally manages and automates
recovery plans
Integrated
Recover Point
Production
VMAX
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• Supports audit requirements
• Simplifies and automates disaster
recovery workflows
– Setup, testing, and failover
Clone
VMAX
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Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery
Putting it all together…
Primary
Non-PRD/DR
Or VMotion with VPLEX
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XtremIO flash array
• Consistent performance
• 150K1 IOPS per x-brick
• Predictable low latency
• Data Management
• Unique Content-aware Data Protection
• Deduplication2 & Compression3
• Space-efficient Snaphosts/clones
One X-Brick
10TB(7.47TB4) /20TB (14.94TB4),
150K1 IOPS
• Encryption
• Simple to manage and scale
• 3-step provisioning—no tuning
• Scaleout architecture
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Test/Dev/NonP
RD
Environment
Consolidation
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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
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HANA
 What is HANA?
 What is a HANA Appliance?
 What is TDI?
 HANA Use Cases
 BW on HANA
 AMI on HANA for MDM with MDUS
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SAP HANA Persistence Layer
SAP HANA Node
In-memory
DB
Data
FS
Log
FS
 Savepoints (Data Filesystem)
– In-memory data written to disk in regular
intervals (5 mins default)
 Log Filesystem
– Capturing all DB transactions since last
savepoint
– Restore DB from last savepoint onwards
– High IOPS requirement
 SAP HANA Single Node
Data
Device
Log
Device
Storage Array
– Used server internal disks (SSD, Fusion-io,
SAS)
 SAP HANA scale-out (multi node)
– Filesystems reside on external storage
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SAP HANA High Availability
All Worker Nodes Are Active
HANA Node1
Worker
HANA Node2
Worker
HANA Node3
Worker
In-memory
DB
In-memory
DB
In-memory
DB
Data1
FS
Log1
FS
Data1
Device
Data2
FS
Log1
Device
Log2
FS
Data2
Device
Data3
FS
Log2
Device
HANA Node4
Standby
Log3
FS
Data3
Device
Log3
Device
Storage Array
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Looking ahead: SAP HANA DT
with Cisco Server Profiles
Site A
Site B
Active HANA Cluster
HANA1
HANA2
HANA3
MPFS
MPFS
MPFS
D
D
L
L
D
D
L
L
D
D
Standby HANA Cluster
HANA4
DNS
Host
Mounts
Names
LAN/WAN
MPFS
L
L
D
D
L
DM2
DM2
DM3
DM3
CS
CS
SP-A
SP-A
HANA6
HANA7
MPFS
MPFS
MPFS
D
L
VNX5300 Local
HANA5
SP-B
SP-B
D
L
L
D
D
L
L
D
D
HANA8
MPFS
L
L
D
D
L
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VNX5300 Remote
Consistency Groups
Failover & Failback
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