Virtualizing SAP HANA with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions: Bringing Flexibility, Agility and Readiness to the Real-Time Enterprise

Virtualizing SAP HANA
with Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform Solutions: Bringing
Flexibility, Agility and Readiness
to the Real-Time Enterprise
Gregory Smith, VP SAP Field Alliance, HDS
Vas Mitra, SAP Solutions Architect, VMware

 SAP HANA and You
 SAP HANA Deployment Models
 Virtualizing SAP HANA With VMware vSphere
 Sample Deployment Architectures and Use Cases With
Hitachi and VMware
 Summary and Resources
Discussion Topics

Power of Hitachi to Tackle Tomorrow’s Big Data
INNOVATION BUDGET
 Founded in 1910
 US$93.4B FY13
 1000 subsidiaries
 326,000 employees
 Thousands of PhDs
#38 in the 2012 FORTUNE® Global 500
Information and
Telecom.
Systems
18%
Power
Systems
Social
Infrastructure
and Industrial
Systems
Construction
Machinery
Electronic
Systems and
Equipment
High Functional
Materials and
Components
Automotive
Systems
Digital Media
and Consumer
Products
Financial
Services
Others

Hitachi Vision for Social Innovation
Through Big Data
Social Innovation Solutions
HEALTHCARE TRAFFIC SECURITY
TRANSIT PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
FINANCIAL ENERGY
MACHINE DATA HUMAN DATA BUSINESS DATA
INFORMATIONCONTENTINFRASTRUCTURE

The SAP Landscape Is Changing
SAP Business Warehouse and Business Suite on SAP HANA
SAP Business
Intelligence
SAP Business Suite
Eventually all applications will look at the same data at the same time – so
business can react in real time
SAPERP
SAPCRM
SAPSCM
SAPPLM
SAPSRM
SAP
Business
Warehouse
SAPNew
Apps
HANA HANASAP HANA platform for analytical and transactional apps

Simplifying IT Environments With the
SAP HANA Platform
SAP HANA Platform
Applications Analytics
Insight to Action
Contextual. Real-time. Closed-loop.
Faster
Process massive amounts of
data and deliver information at
unprecedented speeds
Smarter
Rethink and envision entirely
new ways and applications to
run your business
Simpler
Dramatically simplify
complex and expensive
IT architectures

 If your company runs SAP, they will eventually
deploy SAP HANA
 HANA will be as critical for Business Suite as
Oracle DB and IBM DB2, etc., are today
 Operational processes will need to be
newly considered
 The virtualization strategy needs to be reviewed
 You will be asked to support the deployment…
…. get ready now!
SAP HANA and You
SAP S/4HANA Launch, February 4, 2015:
http://discover.sap.com/S4HANA?url_id=banner-us-homepage-row1-full-s4hana-mar15r1

UCP for SAP HANA – Core Hitachi Values
Reliable, Available, Scalable
Small: 512 GB
Medium: 1 TB
Large: 2 TB
Large +: 4 TB
Large ++: 6 TB
1.5 TB
2 TB
3 TB
4 TB
6 TB
256 GB
384 GB
512 GB
768 GB
1 TB
128 GB
2S 1B
or
4S 2B
or
8S 4B
Medium: 1 TB
Large: 2 TB
Large ++: 3 TB
Scale out to 16/32/56/112TB for SAP BW analytics
With enterprise class storage – VSP G1000 and HUS-VM
Scale-up
Systems
128 GB
- 6 TB
Scale-out
Systems
1 TB, 2TB, 6 TB
16/32/56 Nodes
• Easy scalability, high
density, no rip and replace
• Simplified management
• Resilient, high quality
architecture
Faster Time to Value
• Factory integrated and
tested for fast deployment
• Single vendor solution for
fastest time to value
Cross-geo Distribution Centers Racked, Stacked, Installed & Tested
Shipped to Customer as an appliance,
Ready to plug and play
Future Proof
0.5TB
1 blade
1TB
2 blades
2TB / 4TB / 6TB
4 blades
Scalable SAP HANA platform with same compute and storage
16TB / 32 / 52 TB Scale-Out
• Manage incremental data
growth
• Lower TCO when scaling up
or out
• Protect investment in
solution

Tailored Datacenter Intg.
or
Third-Party
Compute
Shared
Network
or
Third-Party
Enterprise
Storage
SAP HANA SERVERS
STORAGE
Application
DB
OS
Virtualization
Server
Network
Storage
ApplianceModel
Hitachi LPAR
Virtualization/Partitioning
LPAR
UCP Director Ensim
OS
IQ ASE
Powered by
Hitachi Cloud 2.0
Platform
Cloud Platform via:
• Virtualization with
VMware
• Logical partitioning with
Hitachi LPAR
TDI for hybrid solutions:
• Using UCP with customer’s
existing infrastructure
• Using UCP
compute/storage with
third-party components
UCP for SAP HANA – TDI & Solution Packaging
HA and DR
Clients /
Application Servers
PrimarySetup
SecondarySetup
TC / HUR – Hitachi Replication
Storage Replication:
• Synchronous with Hitachi
TrueCopy
• Asynchronous with Hitachi
Universal Replicator
HitachiArchival

UCP for SAP HANA powered by Pentaho
Typical Customer Data Footprint – 10 PB
HITACHI BIG-DATA
PLATFORM
ORCHESTRATED
HADOOP
1-6 TB 10-100 TB 1-2 PB >2 PB
w/ Dynamic
Tiering
Hot Data Warm Data
HITACHI ARCHIVAL
HCP / SEPATON
Using native features for:
1. Connectivity with UCP for
SAP HANA w/ BulkLoader
2. Native connectivity with
Aqua and Hawaii plus
orchestration capabilities
Using native features for:
Aqua and Hawaii
HCP and Sepaton
Cold & Unstructured Data Archives

For Internal Use Only
TrueCopyHUR
SAPHSRSUSEHAE
HUS-VM -> Panama -> VSP
NFS Shared – Integrated Backup
HNAS
Archival Solutions
Sepaton
HCP
Business Suite
Business Warehouse
Afaria
HRMS
S4HANA
A4A
GRC
APO
EBS
Financials
Peoplesoft
Siebel
OBIEE
JD Edwards
HCM
EPM
Enterprise
Software
Hitachi
Big-Data
Platform
Hitachi
Orchestrator
Fiori
Business
Intelligence
Predictive Analytics
Infinite Insight
Public Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Private Cloud
INDUSTRY VERTICAL SOLUTIONS -> (Telco / Healthcare / Public Safety / Connected Cars / Oil & Gas)
Ivy Bridge Haswell Broadwell Skylake Cannonlake
UCP 1000 UCP 2000 UCP 4000 UCP 6000
Hitachi Cloud 2.0
Platform
LPAR
UCP Director Ensim
OS
HAD
DB
IQ ASE
UCP for SAP – Strategic Ecosystem | Looking Ahead

For Internal Use Only
TrueCopyHUR
SAPHSRSUSEHAE
HUS-VM -> Panama -> VSP
NFS Shared – Integrated Backup
HNAS
Archival Solutions
Sepaton
HCP
Business Suite
Business Warehouse
Afaria
HRMS
S4HANA
A4A
GRC
APO
EBS
Financials
Peoplesoft
Siebel
OBIEE
JD Edwards
HCM
EPM
Enterprise
Software
Hitachi
Big-Data
Platform
Hitachi
Orchestrator
Fiori
Business
Intelligence
Infinite Insight
Public Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Private Cloud
INDUSTRY VERTICAL SOLUTIONS -> (Telco / Healthcare / Public Safety / Connected Cars / Oil & Gas)
Ivy Bridge Haswell Broadwell Skylake Cannonlake
UCP 1000 UCP 2000 UCP 4000 UCP 6000
Hitachi Cloud 2.0
Platform
LPAR
UCP Director Ensim
OSDB
IQ ASE
UCP for SAP – Strategic Industry Solutions | Looking Ahead
Infinite Insight
VMware
IQ
Hitachi
Big-Data
Platform
Hitachi
Orchestrator
TrueCopyHUR
Haswell
UCP 6000
HUS-VM -> VSP
Infinite Insight
VMware
IQ
Hitachi
Big-Data
Platform
Hitachi
Orchestrator
TrueCopyHUR
Hitachi
Archival
Hitachi–SAPDynamicallyTiered
BigDataAnalyticsHorizontalPackage
Predictive AnalyticsData Visualization
Hitachi - SAP Healthcare Solution
Hitachi Clinical Repository
Hitachi - SAP Telco Solution
Hitachi Telco-Switch Solutions
Hitachi – SAP Connected Car Solution
Hitachi Automotive Data

Hitachi and VMware
Global Elite Technology Partner since
2002
Early Design Partner for VMware
development programs
OEM and CIPP partner since 2012 –
delivering VMware bundled and
unbundled, including VMware ELAs
Deep global expertise across sales,
presales and consulting
A Leading Partnership from Technology to Business Alignment

Server NetworkStorage
Unified Compute Platform Director
DO MORE WITH
VMWARE VCENTER
 Monitor, provision, protect, and remediate
virtual and physical private cloud
 Access vCloud Air for bursting or specific
uses like disaster recovery
Joint Solution Example: UCP for VMware vSphere
Extend the Reach of the Tools You Use Today
vCenter
vCloud Air
with Intel®
Xeon®
processor

Hitachi, VMware and SAP Success Stories:
Infosys

© 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.
Virtualizing SAP HANA with VMware vSphere

• 99.9%+ availability
• Zero downtime and zero
data loss with vMotion,
enabling business continuity
without compromise
• Automatically restart SAP
and SAP HANA VMs to
maximize uptime
Better Service Levels
• Rapid provisioning: deploy
within hours vs. days
• Template provisioning
ensures consistency and
scalability across
environments
• Accelerated SAP Upgrades
Faster Time-to-Value Lower TCO
• Reduce CAPEX by 70%
and OPEX by 56%***
• Unify and manage SAP
HANA with the rest of the
virtualized SAP landscape
• Greater utilization of existing
resources and infrastructure
* Data based on a VMware SAP HANA on VMware reference customer ***Taneja Group Research, 2014
Great Platform for SAP Re-platforming: VMware vSphere

SAP HANA Scale-Up
HANA SYSTEM 1
VMware vSphere
HANA
Master
LXOS
HANA
Worker
1
LXOS
HANA
Worker
n
LXOS
Global Scale-
Out NFS Share
Shared
HANA TDI
Storage
HANA
LXOS
SAP HANA Scale-Out (SAP BW only)
HANA SYSTEM 1’
Additional
storage IO and
space capacity
SAP HANA Scale-Up to Scale-Out on vSphere 5.5
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1 TB
1 TB 1 TB 1 TB

SAP HANA Production Support on vSphere 5.5
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• HANA Scale-up
• Up to 4 sockets
• SAP HANA Scale-up Multi VM – Controlled Availability
• Other VMs consolidation – Fully supported
• All use case – BW, Suite on HANA, & Side Cars
• HANA Scale-out
• Up to 4 sockets
• Controlled availability
• BW only (same as physical)
Future support
• vSphere 6 (4 TB VMs), 8–socket servers in progress
• Support for Multi-VM and Scale-Out in GA
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-60329

Virtual HANA BW Benchmarks
Certification Ad-Hoc Navigation
Steps/Hr
2014021
Scale-Up
vSphere 5.5
111,850
2014009
Scale-Up Physical
126,980
2015016
Scale-Out
vSphere 5.5
124,570
http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/bweml-results.htm
Virtual within 12%
of Physical
BUT not strictly
Apples-to-apples *
* http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2014/06/first-certified-sap-bw-eml-benchmark-virtual-
hana.html

Scale-Up HANA on VMware High Availability
• VMware HA
– Out-of-the-box, simple baseline solution
• HANA System Replication
– Configure on VMware as per physical
– Faster RTO
– Resources required for standby (duplicate storage)
– (can be used for DR)
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HANA
LXOS
vSphere
vSphere
HANA
LXOS
primary secondary
logs

2424
VMware vCenter Operations MP for SAP HANA - Overview
• Exposes SAP HANA related performance, health, and
availability metrics within vC Ops
• Includes out-of-the-box dashboards, supermetrics, metrics,
and metrics collections for SAP HANA
• Provides visibility into SAP HANA workloads running on
VMware vSphere, bare-metal, and cloud-based
deployments
Benefits
Overview
• Enables end-to-end views of SAP HANA, underlying
compute resources, and storage
• Gain enterprise-wide visibility into SAP HANA workloads
• Greatly reduce troubleshooting times, and simplify security
and compliance management
• vMotion SAP HANA – vCenter Operations Suite BlueMedora
Performance Dashboards
Demo
vRealize Operations
Guest OS
jdbc:hana:port

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vR Ops Dashboard HANA Under Load HANA memory counter
vSphere Active memory counter

The Road Ahead: SAP Virtualization Technology Roadmap
• SAP High Level Roadmap (Public)
– 2014 H2 thru 2015 H2
• Multi-VM production support GA
• 8-socket production support
• Scale-out support
– 2015 H2
• Support of larger VMs ( 4TB & 128 vCPUs)
• VMware Partnering With Hitachi
– Well established partnership
– Flexible hardware architecture
• Scale Up – Large virtual machines
• Scale Out – Across servers, In a box
– Lab-Validated Initial Test Bed
• Time Stamp Counter in sync
• Successfully tested HDS blades
High Level Hitachi Architecture
CB500
2x 6TB Compute Nodes
Enterprise Class Storage
• Flash, SAS, & NAS
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Sample SAP HANA
Deployment Architectures
and Use Cases
With Hitachi and VMware

 KPI-tested SAP HANA solution, single VM & multi-VM*
 Solution Architecture:
‒ Memory: 1 TB
‒ # CB 520X blades: 2
‒ # sockets: 4
‒ # cores: 60
‒ SAP HANA version: SP09
‒ Linux version: SLES 11 for SAP Application SP3
‒ VMware vSphere version: 5.5
 Reference architecture extendable to more complex
architectures
1 TB UCP for SAP HANA With VMware vSphere:
Reference Architecture and Appliance Option
vSphere
*Notes:
• SAP/VMware Best Practices and support details apply
• Up to 16 VMs tested
• Details: see Resources
HANA
VM2
HANA
VM1 …

 KPI-tested SAP HANA solution on ‘Hitachi UCP for
VMware vSphere’ (with Intel E5 processors; only up to
500GB of HANA)
 System orchestrated with Unified Compute
Platform Director
 Solution architecture (one blade within private cloud
solution):
‒ Memory: 512GB
‒ Blade type: CB 520H
‒ # sockets per blade: 2
‒ # cores per blade: 24
‒ SAP HANA version: SP09
‒ Linux version: SLES 11 for SAP Application SP3
 Great for consolidation with virtualized core
SAP landscape!
SAP HANA on UCP for VMware vSphere with Hitachi Unified
Compute Platform Director Reference Architecture
UCP
Director
UCP for
VMware
vSphere
with
UCP
Director
with Intel®
Xeon®
processor

Accelerated HANA Deployments:
1. Hitachi delivers small, fully pre-installed
SAP HANA VM template as part of
Professional Service
2. Template can be deployed as SAP HANA
VM for any SAP application
3. SAP HANA VMs can be grown to satisfy adequate sizing
… no on-site HANA installation needed
… easy customization to required landscape
One More Reason to Virtualize: SAP HANA
Deployment from Template (Hitachi Service)
vSphere
HANA ECC
HANA CRM
Hitachi
SAP
HANA
Template
Hitachi
SAP
HANA
Template
Hitachi
SAP
HANA
Template

Putting it All Together: Sample Architecture 1
ECC
prd
CRM
prd
ECC sbx
ECC devCRM sbx
CRM dev
ECC
DR
CRM
DR
ECC
QA
CRM
QA
ECC test
CRM test
SAP HANA Replication*
SAP HANA Replication
2 TB/60 cores 1 TB/60 cores
1 TB/60 cores1 TB/60 cores
1 TB/60 cores
 Example landscape:
• ECC and CRM, 5 SIDs each
• Sizing:
 Prod, HA, QA: 800 GB
 Test, Dev: 400 GB
 Sbx: 100 GB
• DR: SAP HANA replication
 Core benefits & use cases:
• HA/vMotion of production
systems to test/sbx system
(suspension of all non-prod
systems on that node)
• QA and DR are co-located,
DR uses little (~10%)
resources while only
replicating. In DR scenario,
QA will be shut down
with Intel®
Xeon®
processor
* See SAP documentation for details.

Putting it All Together: Sample Architecture 2
ECC
prd
CRM
prdECC devCRM sbx
ECC
DR
CRM
DR
ECC
QA
CRM
QA
ECC sbx CRM
dev
ECC test
CRM test
2 TB/60 cores
1 TB/60 cores
1 TB/60 cores
1 TB/60 cores1 TB/60 cores
1 TB/60 cores
 Example landscape:
• ECC and CRM, 5 SIDs each
• Sizing:
 Prod, HA, QA: 800 GB
 Test, Dev: 400 GB
 Sbx: 100 GB
• DR: Storage replication
(Hitachi TC or HUR)
 Core benefits & use cases:
• Additional HA/vMotion
system available (likely used
for some non-prod systems)
• QA and DR systems are co-
located. DR is not running.
• In DR scenario, QA will be
shut down
Storage Replication
(sync or async) with Intel®
Xeon®
processor

 If you run SAP: SAP HANA is coming!
 SAP HANA can be virtualized with VMware vSphere
 Hitachi and VMware deliver multiple deployment options for
SAP HANA – Appliance or TDI model
 Hitachi end-to-end enterprise-class solutions combined with
VMware features deliver the SLAs required for mission-critical
SAP HANA deployments
 SAP HANA templates can greatly increase deployment speed
Summary

SAP HANA on VMware vSphere Best Practices Guide
• All the best practices are covered in detail in the best practices guide
• http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/SAP_HANA_on_vmware_vSphere_best_practices_guide.pdf
• And a lot more material available…
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 See http://www.hds.com/solutions/alliance/sap/
‒ Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform on VMware vSphere in a
Medium 1TB Scale-Up Configuration using Hitachi Compute Blade 500 and Hitachi Unified
Storage VM Reference Architecture Guide
‒ SAP Business Suite for on UCP for VMware vSphere with UCP Director Reference
Architecture
‒ Upcoming:
‒ SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for VMware
vSphere with Hitachi Compute Blade 500
‒ Future updates with VMware vSphere 6 are planned
HDS Resources
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 Come and see us at our booth!
• Hitachi: Booth #905
 Join us on HDS Community
https://community.hds.com/welcome
 Familiarize yourself with key solutions and reference architectures:
• Hitachi: http://www.hds.com/solutions/alliance/sap/
• VMware: http://www.vmware.com/business-critical-apps/sap-virtualization/sap-hana.html
 Be sure to watch these SAP Sessions online if you missed them!
VAPP4982 – Leveraging SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering Monday, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
VAPP4990 - Customer Panel: SAP HANA on vSphere Deployments In Technology, Security,
Cloud, and Retail Verticals Monday, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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