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Dieter Krieger

Product Management

SAP AG

Updated May 2013

SAP NetWeaver® Landscape Virtualization Management 1.0 Use Cases, Features and Benefits

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Agenda

Overview

Landscape Information

Centralized Management

SAP System Clone / Copy / Refresh

Extensibility

Reference Customers

Further Information


Agenda

Overview




Extensibility

Customer Reference

Further Information


SAP virtualization and cloud management program Overview

Provides access for customers to a central library of

pre-configured SAP software appliances

SAP Cloud Appliance Library

(on-demand)

Management Tool by SAP to centrally manage

technical SAP landscape and basis tasks

SAP NetWeaver

Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) (on-premise)

Manage Your

SAP Landscapes

SAP Cloud Appliance

Library

T1-CRM T2-ERP

T4-CRM T5-ERP

Solution Library

T4-CRM

Public Cloud

(IaaS) Software appliances provided

by SAP Virtual Appliance

Factory (VAF)

Customer


SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management 1.0 Key features

Automatic Capacity

Management

System Clone Start, Stop & Relocate

Systems, Mass Operations

System

Copy/Refresh

Landscape Visualization

End-to-End Visibility &

Monitoring of all Infrastructure

Layers

Third-Party

Support & Extensibility

Manage Your

SAP Landscapes


SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management Outlook

SAP NetWeaver

Landscape Virtualization Management

open and flexible to integrate

with customer datacenter environment

Management

Frameworks

IT-Infrastructure

Private

Cloud Hybrid

Virtualization Storage Physical

Resources Network

Public

Cloud

SAP Solution

Manager

SAP and

Non-SAP

Applications


With SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software (LVM), you can reduce the capital

investment and IT operational costs for managing your SAP systems and landscapes running on traditional or

virtual infrastructures and increase your business agility.

Business Benefits:

Greater operational continuity through centralized management, visibility and control of your

entire SAP landscape using a single console

Reduced time, effort and cost to manage and operate your SAP systems through

automation of time-consuming basis administration tasks

Increased operational agility through acceleration of application life-cycle management

operations and fast response to workload fluctuations

Sustainable IT (reduced energy consumption and minimized e-waste) through optimized use

of computing resources

SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management Value proposition


• Automatic Capacity Management

• Advanced Dashboards

• Reporting

• Landscape Visualization

• Performance Monitoring

+ System Clone/Copy/Refresh(1)

SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management 1.0 Standard Edition vs. Enterprise Edition

Standard Edition

Enterprise Edition

• Start/Stop/Relocate

• Mass Operations

• Validations

• Task Planner

• Service and Resource Detection

• AS (Un-)Installation

• Basic Dashboard

• Virtualization Integration

• Extensibility (Custom Services, Operations, Hooks)

• Fine-granular Access Control

• Inter-System Dependencies

+ System Rename via SAPinst command line

interface (shipped with SL Toolset)

NOTE (1) – This feature requires a premium license. All others are covered by a foundation license.


SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management Release plan

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LVM

1.0 GA Maintenance

LVM

2.0 GA Ramp-Up

LVM

X

2011 2012 2013 2014

June

Q2

Q4

Q4

Q2

SP5 SP4 SP1 SP2

Ramp-Up

SP3

Ramp-up started on

April 23, 2013


Agenda

Overview




Extensibility

Reference Customers

Further Information


Landscape information Dashboards, reporting and visualization

Landscape Visualization

• Provides landscape view across infrastructure layers

• Shows landscape entities and the relationship between them

• Provides three different views (circular, hierarchy and

dependency)

Dashboards

• Provide high-level overview of current landscape state

• Show running operations and diagnostic messages

• Are customizable

Reports

• Are pre-defined

• Offer filter options for landscape information

• Can be exported in different formats (pdf, xls, crystal reports (rpt), …)


Landscape information Monitoring and analysis

Performance Metrics

• in graphical representations

• for specific entities, such as SAP systems, specific

instances, and virtual machines, …

Activities and Logs

• Let you monitor every operation that was triggered

• Provide details on each step of the operation

• Let you detect the root cause of an issue

Validations

• Are built-in routine checks

• Provide checks on service and resource configuration data

and instance configuration details

• Example: file system and instance agent checks …


Agenda

Overview




Extensibility

Customer Reference

Further Information


Centralized management Operations and task scheduling

Single/Mass Operations on Services and

Resources

• Enable you to perform stop/(re)start/relocate

operations on specific systems and services

• Enable you to perform mass operations on entire pools

of systems (stop/(re)start/relocate, …)

• Enable you to perform single/mass operations on

virtual resources (deactivate, suspend, migrate, …)

Task Planner (automate daily operations)

• Lets you schedule a mass operation or

sequential operation task, such as

stop/(re)start/relocate on single instances

or on entire pools of systems

• Customer-defined operations (hooks) may be

triggered before or after a stop/(re)start

operation

Relocate

Relocate SAP instances

from physical to virtual

and from virtual to

physical servers

running the same OS.

Migrate

Migrate a VM with a

running SAP system to

a different resource

provider (e.g. a different

ESX server).


ACM Scaling

• ACM can scale ACM-managed SAP systems to adapt to changing workload

• Scaling is directed by rules (configurable via ACM settings) and dialog response time

• Currently, two methods are available:

- Too few application servers running – ACM generates a proposal to start additional application servers

- Too many application servers running – ACM generates a proposal to stop application servers and relinquish resources

Centralized management Automatic capacity management (ACM)

ACM Operation Modes

• Approval-based

(administrator approves the proposal)

• Automatic

(scaling happens automatically)


Agenda

Overview




Extensibility

Reference Customers

Further Information


QAS

Up-to-date

business data

QAS

Outdated

business data

System clone / copy / refresh Use case examples

Example: Create isolated testing, demo or

training systems

System Refresh System Clone System Copy

Example: Create new QA/TEST systems

PRD

PRD

PRD

PRD

QAS

TST

PRD

Example: Update existing QA/TEST systems

with latest business data


System clone / copy / refresh Operational overview of steps

SAP NetWeaver

Landscape Virtualization Management

System Refresh

Export system configuration

Clone SAP system

Rename cloned SAP system

Perform post-copy activities

(includes import of system

configuration)

Storage or VM-based cloning Isolation of cloned system by OS

firewall means

Target system is offline

Target system is online

System Copy

Clone SAP system

Rename cloned SAP system

Perform post-copy activities

Clone SAP system

System Clone

Target system is online


Use Cases:

• System Refresh

• Initial System Copy

Content:

• ABAP Basis

• ECC and ERP

• BW Initial Copy (via Task Manager only)

• SCM (planned)

• CRM (planned)

Overview

• Customizing of SAP pre-delivered task lists

• Variant maintenance of task lists

• Check mode for all tasks

• Resume of task lists in case of error

• Interrupt of task list execution

• Local/decentralized execution

• Execution in dialog/background

• Parallel execution on multiple

systems

Features

ABAP post-copy automation Overview

System Copy Clone Start Create fence Remove fence Prepare

Post-Copy

Automation (PCA) Rename clone

Collective Note 1527538

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1527538


Java post-copy automation Overview

Use Cases:

• System Refresh

• Initial System Copy

Content:

• Java Basis

Overview

• Variant maintenance

• Execution in dialog/background

• Execute with variant in UI and background mode

• Parallel execution on multiple systems

• Execution log for audit purposes

Features

Clone Start Create fence Remove fence Prepare Post-Copy

Automation (PCA) Rename clone

System Copy




Agenda

Overview




Extensibility

Reference Customers

Further Information


Custom Operations

• Can be explicitly triggered on services or resources and you can define various conditions

• Three flavors: Host Agent “script”, Web Service, HTTP Post

• Example: DB update, kernel update …

Extensibility Custom operations/hooks, and custom services

Custom Services

• Any piece of software can be managed as a service

• Any non-SAP component is manageable

• Example: Tibco, Biztalk, data warehousing solutions …

Custom Hooks

• Are automatically executed before/after a standard operation

and you can define various conditions

• Three flavors: Host Agent “script”, Web Service, HTTP Post

• Example: CleanIPC, scheduler queue check …


Agenda

Overview




Extensibility

Reference Customers

Further Information


Bosch boosts Automation of Routine Tasks with

SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management

The Bosch Group

Comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its

roughly 350 subsidiaries and regional

companies in 60 countries

Headquarters

Stuttgart, Germany

Industries

Automotive, Industrial Technology and

Consumer Goods

Products and Services

Automotive Technology, Household

Appliances, Packaging Technology,

Consumer Electronics, Solar Energy

Employees

302,000 worldwide

Revenue

51.2 billion € in 2011

Web Site

www.bosch.com

Objectives

Reduce operational costs of administering the SAP landscape Drive flexibility and agility Boost the level of automation by eliminating routine tasks Why SAP

Ongoing development partnership with SAP and IBM Strong technology leadership coupled with extensive Partner ecosystem Open interfaces facilitate integration with existing environment Only vendor with end-to-end process capability across infrastructure layers Benefits

Landscape-wide technical infrastructure monitoring and validation Central point of control for the SAP landscape including landscape visualization Post-copy automation steps fully customized to Bosch needs Seamless integration into existing automation environment Automation has driven down operational costs

“We experienced the tremendous potential of SAP NetWeaver

Landsacpe Virtualization Management, especially in its automation

capabilites of SAP system copy and post-copy automation.”

Magnus Binder, Global Lead of SAP Operations at Bosch


LHI automates routine administration tasks with

SAP® NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management

The LHI Group

Group of companies focused on leasing

business, market leader in property leasing,

commercial administration of special purpose

companies.

Headquarters

Pullach, Germany

Industries

Real Estate Leasing,

Financial Services

Products and Services

Structured financing projects

Funds

Supporting Services

Employees

280

Revenue

151 million € in 2011

Web Site

http://www.lhi.de

Objectives

Consolidation of the IT landscape using virtualization technologies and leverage products like SAP® NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management to manage the SAP landscape. Minimize planned downtimes during key administrative tasks and improve Service Levels being offered to the internal business customers. Quick and rapid provisioning of SAP systems to improve testing and integration scenarios. Reduce costs and complexity. Why SAP

Long-term relationship with SAP SAP applications run the most critical business applications for LHI LVM quite naturally complements and enhances the overall story around hardware consolidation and infrastructure virtualization Benefits

Automated copy & refresh of productive systems via LVM helps meet some of the demanding business requirements. End-to-end Automation of day to day administrative tasks reduces TCO. Open architecture and rich set of interfaces allows easy integration of LVM with other technologies in the data center (storage, databases, virtualization etc.) SAP application awareness and SAP content (Post-Copy Automation) eliminates manual effort reduces time and resources required. SAP content is part of the SAP technology foundation layer and is enhanced regularly via the standard patching process.

Implementation of SAP Netweaver Landscape Virtualization Management as part of the

hardware consolidation and replatforming project has resulted in increased flexibility and

improved responsiveness to our business. LVM offers a compelling value proposition

because of the end-to-end automation of complex tasks which results in reduced costs

and minimizes planned outages.

Manfred Bellet, Manager IT Infrastructure, LHI


Agenda

Overview




Extensibility

Reference Customers

Further Information


Further information

SAP Public Web

SAP.com Solutions http://www.sap.com/solutions/technology/cloud/virtualization/index.epx

SAP Community Network http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/virtualization

SAP Help Portal and SAP Online Knowledge Products

SAP Help Portal http://help.sap.com/nwlvm

Learning Map https://training.sap.com/de/en/search?query=ONWLV1

Related SAP Notes


http://www.sap.com/solutions/technology/cloud/virtualization/index.epx

http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/virtualization



http://help.sap.com/nwlvm

https://training.sap.com/de/en/search?query=ONWLV1&source=CG4D9ED4EC


Thank You! Contact information:

Dieter Krieger

Product Manager

SAP AG [email protected]


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