Migrating to SAP HANA – Lessons Learned from TDI-based Deployment Scenarios Case Studies and Service Solutions from Cisco Drew Iacone – Global Sales Strategy for SAP on Cisco Ed Higgins – Global Sales Strategy for Cisco Advanced Services on SAP Brian Ferrar – Global Marketing Manager for SAP on Cisco June 17, 2015
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Migrating to SAP HANA – Lessons Learned from TDI-based Deployment Scenarios
Case Studies and Service Solutions from Cisco
Drew Iacone – Global Sales Strategy for SAP on Cisco Ed Higgins – Global Sales Strategy for Cisco Advanced Services on SAPBrian Ferrar – Global Marketing Manager for SAP on Cisco
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Safe Harbor Statement The content and commentary in this presentation and associated webinar is intended to be accurate and directionally representative of SAP's Best Practices and Product Strategy. There is however a degree of subjectivity in any effort to interpret SAP from a sizing and capacity planning perspective.
Therefore, it is strongly encouraged to request a "HANA Technical Academy" Briefing and Workshop with SAP, Cisco, and your preferred Storage Vendor at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) or the SAP Competency Center:
Spend 1-2 Days with true SAP Subject Matter Experts
Latest Product Roadmaps and Solution Planning with SAP and your End-to-End SAP Technology vendors
Hands-on with HANA (Several Technical Scenarios including HA/DR, Hadoop, ILM, and Security Integrations)
Locations: Palo Alto (California, USA), São Paulo (Brazil), Waldorf (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Bangalore (India), Shanghai (China), Singapore, and Tokyo (Japan).
1. Profile a Typical SAP (HANA-driven) Technical UpgradeThis specifically references the ‘minimally-disruptive’ upgrade path to S/4HANA from the “What is S/4HANA” webinar (March 4, 2015). And the broader concepts around SAP’s Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) program
2. Cisco’s Data Center Solution Strategy for SAP – Why TDI
3. Lessons Learned from TDI deployments & Case Studies
4. Cisco’s Solutions for SAP and SAP HANA Deployments
1. SAP has three (3) sets of Rules for HANA-based Deployments Appliance, TDI, and Non-Production. There are very few if any rules for Non-Production
2. Appliance and TDI Rules are only Required for Production Just Production and not even the HA nodes in Production Customers follow self-imposed rules for some Non-Prod Landscapes (DR or QAS/DR landscapes)
3. Appliances have the Shared Storage and any 10G Switching required for the HANA Persistence bundled into the OEM’s quote
This also includes the OS (Linux for SAP via SUSE or RHAT) OEMs also bundle in Premium Services and Premium Support offerings (Appliance or Box-level)
4. TDI Deployments allow customers to leverage existing Storage and Switching Standards TDI is a test for the Performance KPIs from the Appliance Model in the End-customer’s PRODUCTION
Landscape Premium Services and Support Offerings are not required but are strongly recommended
SAP on UCS Integrated InfrastructureCisco Validated Designs (CVDs) with NetApp (FlexPod), EMC (vBlock/VCE), and IBM (VersaStack)
• Tested for Hardware Interoperability• Compute and Network Fabric from Cisco• Storage from NetApp, EMC, IBM, and soon Nimble• Hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft, and Red Hat• Forward and Backward compatibility promise
• Detailed Documentation and Design Guides
• Foundation CVDs (IaaS level) for FlexPod, VSPEX, VersaStack• Extension CVDs (IaaS level) for Advanced Security and Secure
Enclaves • Extension CVDs (IaaS level) for Disaster Recovery or
‘Workload Mobility’
• Additional SAP Documentation and Testing• Extension CVDs (PaaS level) for SAP HANA via TDI (replacing
Whitepapers)• Additional Documentation: Best Practices, Technical Whitepapers,
and ‘How to’ implement Guides Storage, VMWare, etc… on UCS• Reference Configurations (Small, Medium, Large) for Simple
Sizing
• End-to-End Solution Support from Cisco!
• Compute, Network, Third Party Storage• Bare Metal OS, Through the Hypervisor, Into the Guest OS
Provide customers with ongoing remote and onsite operational and change management support for HANA appliance
Provide proactive updates to Cisco HANA Appliances to ensure certification standards during upgrade, patch, update, etc. UCS Hardware SuSe & RedHat OS HANA Software
Lead expansion of HANA scale-out appliance. Provide consultation for site replication,
backups and archiving techniques Design and deploying multi-SID configuration
Customer’s adopted best practices may not apply to TDI deployments
Features they use in their environment may not have been tested nor recommended HANA environments Port Channel to SAN, Port Channel to FI Trunking Introduction of RedHat and VPC support resolved issues
in this area.
Not all storage varieties supported; may be introducing unfamiliar equipment to their environment
Customers want TDI conformance to company standards
Case Study - Multi-national Oil and Gas GiantSAP TDI Services
AS Value for CustomerCisco Services brought extensive expertise to the on all elements of the infrastructure and HANA,
Previous TDI design and deployment experience allowed for rapid identification and deployment identification and deployment of the TDI solution
Cisco Services ad developed a trusted advisor relationship with the customer which made the selection of Cisco an easy choice for the customer.
Client backgroundLarge Latin American Oil and Gas Giant. TDI Deployment Model
Challenge• Existing Cisco Appliance Model Scale-out solution
was not able to meet customers compliance requirements
• Enterprise Storage solution required to provide star-based replication scheme and consistency groups across more than two storage arrays. VMAX was the customer’s storage solution to provide this functionality.
• Migration from dedicate network to Corporate network managed by the network team Solution
• Move customer to a TDI model deployment• Implement VMAX storage to support the replication
requirement and consistency groups across several datacenters.
Cisco offers a Complete Portfolio for HANA – Appliance & TDI Scale-up to 8-socket before you Scale-out | Analytics at 2+TB | Transactional/Suite (SoH) at 6TB
C460 M4(2-4s Appliance
Workhorse. 80+% SoH)
B200 M3/M4*(2s TDI Workhorse on Intel E5 – 80+%
SoH)
B460 M4 (4s TDI Workhorse for SoH and Scale-out)
C880 M4(8s Analytics Workhorse)
(~10% of SoH-classic)
Then Scale-out!
Scale-up80+% of SoH-classic fits into 2-4 socket
Compute Nodes
Analytics80+% fits into 2-7TB Clusters (1-8 Nodes)
* NEW! Mainly for HANA via TDI, Cisco also certified the B260M4 (2s x E7) and the C220/C240M4 (2s x