Joint NetApp and Cisco Solutions for SAP: FlexPod and HANA

Craig Sullivan, NetApp

SAP Solutions Architect

Joint NetApp and Cisco Solutions for SAP: FlexPod and HANA

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FlexPod: The global leader in Integrated Infrastructure

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Cisco UCS™ B-Series Blade Servers and Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp® FAS10GE and FCoE

Standard, prevalidated, best-in-class infrastructure building blocks

Flexible: One platform scales to fit many environments and mixed workloads– Add applications and workload

– Scale up and out

Simplified management and repeatable deployments

Design and sizing guides

Services: Facilitate deployment of different environments

FlexPod Datacenter for SAPSolution Overview

VMwarevSphere

Storage VirtualizationNetApp® MultiStore®

Network VirtualizationCisco Nexus® 1000v, Nexus 5000

Application VirtualizationSAP® Adaptive Computing

Server VirtualizationVMware® vSphere®

Compute Node VirtualizationCisco Unified Computing System™

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Extensible OpenManagement

Tenant Components

Network

Computing

Storage

Infrastructure Tenant

ACCSMSAP

vSphere®

VLAN, Routing, Firewall

Primaryand

Backup vFiler®

Units

Tenant 2

DHCPDNSNIS

Primaryand

Backup vFilerUnits

VLAN, Routing, Firewall

Tenant 3

Primaryand

Backup vFilerUnits

VLAN, Routing, Firewall

DHCPDNSNIS

DNS

Tenant Description Tenant Description

Integrated Data Protection for All Data

OperatingSystems

NonapplicationData

ApplicationData

PrimaryvFiler®

Units

BackupvFilerUnits

VMware® vSphere® Integrated Backupwith SnapManager® for VI

SAP® Integrated Backupwith SnapManager for SAP

Backups with Protection Manager

Data Replication with Protection Manager

Data Replication with Protection Manager

Data Replication with Protection Manager

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Prim

ary

Prim

ary

Prim

ary

Bac

kup

Bac

kup

Bac

kup

Application and Data Mobility

VM VM VM

ESX® Server ESX Server Bare Metal Bare Metal

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ESX® Server ESX Server Bare Metal Bare Metal

Application and Data Mobility

VM VMVM

ESX® Server ESX Server Bare Metal Bare Metal

Application and Data Mobility

VM VM

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ESX® Server ESX Server Bare Metal Bare Metal

Application and Data Mobility

VM VM

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System Refresh

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ExtractSource Data

Restore fromTape

SAPPostprocessing

OS/DBPostprocessing

Automated data extraction

Storage cloning

Automated OS/DB postprocessing

Automated SAP® postprocessing

Effort: Several days

Effort: Several hoursTypically 20 x faster and fully automated

StandardApproach

FlexPod®Approach

Cisco UCS with NetApp Storage

for SAP HANA

Certified HANA Solutions

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The SAP HANA + NetApp Building Block

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SAP HANA Database

512 GB 512 GB 512 GB 512 GB

10Gb Ethernet, NFS

FAS3250AE

Simplicity and performance Building block

architecture scales without logical limits

Shared storage for nodes mandatory

Standards-based access and interconnect

Ready to scale out by block

Cisco - Certified AppliancesBuilding Block

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1 x FAS3240A

2 x DS4243600GB 15K

1 x FAS3250AE

2 x DS4243600GB 15K

4 x compute nodes 4 x compute nodes

1 x FAS3250AE

3 x DS2246600GB 10K

6 x compute nodes

May 2013May 2012 Planned

Ability to certify on-site non-appliance configurations

SAP HANA Database

512 GB 512 GB 512 GB 512 GB512 GB 512 GB

10Gb Ethernet, NFS

Tailored Datacenter Integration

FAS6290HA

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DR building block (Cisco)

Data 1/2

SourceA

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

MirrorA

Data 3/4

SourceC MirrorC

Controller A Controller B

Controller C Controller D

10GbE

SAP HANA Production

512 GB 512 GB 512 GB 512 GB

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3 Data 4

HA Pair MetroCluster

HA Pair MetroCluster

Controller B and Dare not actively usedduring normaloperation.

Four Hana nodes attached to twoactive storagecontrollers.

MDS Switches

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Servers at DR site for Dev/Test

Data 1/2

SourceA

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

MirrorA

Data 3/4

SourceC MirrorC

Controller A Controller B

Controller C Controller D

10GbE

SAP HANA Production

512 GB 512 GB 512 GB 512 GB

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3 Data 4

HA Pair

HA Pair

SAP HANA Dev/Test

512 GB 512 GB 512 GB 512 GB

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3 Data 4

Servers at the DRsite are used for Dev/Test,but must have their ownstorage and network.

Dev/Test

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Site failover

Data 1/2

SourceA

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

8Gb FC

MirrorA

Data 3/4

SourceC MirrorC

Controller A Controller B

Controller C Controller D

10GbE

SAP HANA Production

512 GB 512 GB 512 GB 512 GB

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3 Data 4

HA Pair

HA Pair

SAP HANA Production DR

512 GB 512 GB 512 GB 512 GB

Data 1 Data 2 Data 3 Data 4

Dev/Test

DEV/Test systems areshut down and serversare used for production.

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SAP HANA Production Database

Data 1 Log 1

Compute Node 1

Data 2 Log 2

Compute Node 2

Data 3 Log 3

Compute Node 3

Data 4 Log 4

Compute Node 4

10Gb Ethernet, NFS

NetApp Snapshot Backup

Step 2: Snapshot copies are created on storage layer

Step 1: SnapCreator triggers a SAP HANA global synchronized backup savepoint via hdbsql statement (SAP note 1703435)

Backup in minutes without impact to production

Restore in minutes With the current HANA release a storage

based Snapshot can only be restored, a forward recovery is not possible yet Backup

Volumes

Step 3: Snapshot copies can be replicated asynchronously on storage layer

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