Download - AWS re:Invent 2016: Optimizing workloads in SAP HANA with Amazon EC2 X1 Instances (CMP322)
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Steven Jones, Sr. Manager Solutions Architecture, AWS
Rudi Leibbrandt, Senior Director SAP HANA Product Management, SAP
November 30, 2016
Optimizing SAP HANA on AWS
with Amazon EC2 X1 Instances
CMP322
Reduce costs Increase speed Improve agility
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Move from risk-laden
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Stop guessing
at capacity planning
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minutesRemove complicated infrastructure
management that adds little
business value
GE Oil & Gas is migrating 500 applications, and more than 750TB of data, to
the cloud by the end of 2016 as part of a major digital transformation, helping it
attain a 52% reduction in TCO and greater speed to market.
Get Rid of Time-Consuming, Expensive Tasks
Lower the time spent
on infrastructure
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SAP Overview
SAP is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue. Based on market capitalization, it’s the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer. 74% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system.
• Revenues (IFRS): €20.8 billion in FY2015
• Employees: More than 77,000 employees in 130+ countries
• Customers: 300,000 active customers in 190 countries
• Global 500: 87% of Forbes Global 500 customers are SAP clients
• Stock exchanges: Listed under the symbol “SAP” on stock exchanges, including the Frankfurt Exchange and NYSE
SAP HANA Platform
SAP HANA Platform: Common Use Cases
Data Management and Integration
Advanced Analytical Processing
Application Development & Delivery
In-Memory Database
Next-Generation Applications
Machine Learning IoT Social Mobile
Introducing SAP HANA 2Next-generation platform for digital transformation
• New release of the SAP HANA
platform
• Continuous technology
enhancements delivered 2x-a-year
for agile IT
• Optimized for business innovation
• Introduce solutions or services to
compete
• Transform processes to reduce
operational costs
Trans-Analytic Predictive Location Search Big Data
SAP HANA Platform: The Platform for All ApplicationsSimplify, accelerate, innovate
SAP BW 7.5powered by SAP HANA
• Performance optimization
• Simplification and Virtualization
• Introducing SAP BW/4HANA
• The Next Generation Data Warehouse
• Built for Cloud
• Logical Data Warehousing
• Internet of Things
• Integrates with Big Data
• Simplification,
• HANA platformintegration
• Big Data scenarios
2013 20152012
SAP BW 7.3powered by SAP HANA
SAP BW 7.4powered by SAP HANA
2016
SAP BW 7.5,edition for
SAP HANA Add on
• For SAP BW/4HANA customers only
• Use transfer toolsto make system ready for SAP BW/4HANA
• Requires SAP BW 7.5 SP 4 or higher
BW/4HANA
SAP BW/4HANA – The Next Generation Data
Warehouse
SAP & AWS ALLIANCE
Strong partnership with a history of
collaboration and rapid innovation
Customer Outcomes
SAP Solutions Supported on AWS
SAP S/4HANA
NEW SAP BW/4HANA
SAP Business Suite
SAP NetWeaver
SAP Business Warehouse
SAP Business All-In One
SAP Business One
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP Business
Solutions
SAP HANA
SAP ASE
SAP IQ
SAP Replication Server
SAP Mobile Secure
SAP Mobile Platform
SAP Database &
Mobile Solutions
IBM DB2
SAP MaxDB
SAP HANA
Microsoft SQL Server
NEW Oracle Database
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Windows Server
Supported OS &
DB Platforms
SAP Note #1656099 contains the latest information regarding
SAP product, landscape, and platform support on AWS
AWS Building Blocks
AWS Global Infrastructure
14 Regions
38 Availability Zones
63 edge locations
EC2 Compute
Intel ® Xeon E5-26xx v2, v3 & v4 CPUs
• Up to 2.9 GHz, Turbo enabled up to 3.6 GHz
• Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX2)
Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 (X1)
• Quad Socket configuration / DDR4 Memory with high memory bandwidth and larger L3 caches
• Support for Intel® AVX2 & TSX
• Single Device Data Correction (SDDC +1)
• Up to 128 vCPUs, up to 2TB RAM
Memory Optimized
Name vCPUMemory
(GiB)
Network
BandwidthSAPS
x1.32xlarge 128 1952 20 Gigabit 131,500
x1.16xlarge 64 976 10 Gigabit 65,750
r3.8xlarge 32 244 10 Gigabit 31,920
r3.4xlarge 16 122 High 15,960
r3.2xlarge 8 61 High 7,980
r3.xlarge 4 30.5 Moderate 3,990
r3.large 2 15 Moderate 1,995
• Use in 2-tier and 3-tier configurations up to
hundreds of thousands of SAPS
• Amazon EBS-optimized instances
• Enhanced networking
• Certified instances for SAP HANA
Check SAP Note 1656099 for more information
General Purpose
Name vCPUMemory
(GiB)
Network
BandwidthSAPS
m4.10xlarge 40 160 10 Gigabit 47,320
m4.4xlarge 16 64 High 17,712
m4.2xlarge 8 32 High 8,856
m4.xlarge 4 16 High 4,428
m4.large 2 8 Moderate 2,214
Compute Optimized
Name vCPUMemory
(GiB)
Network
BandwidthSAPS
c4.8xlarge 36 60 10 Gigabit 37,950
c4.4xlarge 16 30 High 19,030
c4.2xlarge 8 15 High 9,515
c4.xlarge 4 7.5 High 4,758
c4.large 2 3.75 Moderate 2,379
Platform: Certified instances SAPS ratingsH
AN
A
“X1 instances offer more memory than any other SAP-certified cloud instance available today”
Designed for SAP HANA
Amazon EC2 X1 Instances
• Powered by four Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 (Haswell)
processors (64 cores / 128 vCPUs)
• Up to 2TB of DDR4 RAM per instance
• High memory bandwidth and larger L3 caches
• Up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth
• Up to 10 Gpbs of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS
Specifications
https://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html#
X1: SAP HANA Powered by AWS
244Gb
1TB
2TB
1TB 14TB4TB …
Scale-out
Scal
e-u
p
Scale-out
2TB x1.32xl
14TB scale-out
1TB x1.16xl
7TB
7TB scale-out
Single node
- OLAP (incl. BW/4HANA & BWoH)
- OLTP (incl. S/4HANA & SoH)
- liveCache
- BPC
Scale-out up to 14 TB!
- OLAP (incl. BW/4HANA & BWoH)
Based on SPS11 (or later) core-to-memory
relaxation for OLAP, as of SPS11 customers
can make full use of RAM
https://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html
R3 4TB scale-out
Digital Transformation:Crossing the Chasm
Capital investments
Complex integrated
system architectures
Customized SAP
solutions
Rigid IT backbone
Real-time insight
Simplified and
streamlined business
processes
Lower TCO
Intuitive user
experience
Fear of the unknown
EffortBudget
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“The digitization of business requires a modern approach
to data management, data processing and analytics that
can handle any data source and type in real time. With
SAP BW/4HANA and our collaboration with AWS, the
leading cloud infrastructure provider, we are providing
customers with an easy-to-consume next-generation data
warehouse platform that will further accelerate their
journey toward becoming a live digital business.”
-- Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board,
Products & Innovation, SAP SE.
Try SAP Solutions on AWS with Ease
• More than 30 preconfigured SAP solutions
• Available as Trial, Education, & Developer Editions
• Deployed into your own AWS account
• New releases of:
SAP S/4HANA
SAP BW/4HANA 1.0
SAP Connected Health Platform
SAP Master Data Governance 8.0
SAP HANA Vora Developer Edition
SAP HANA Express Edition
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AnyDB
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S/4HANA
2025
Accelerate Your SAP Projects
2 – 5 year journey
6 months to 1 year journey
Suite On AnyDB
3 months
From nothing to
productive system
<1 hour
Upgrade from 244gb
to 2tb system using
AWS
50% Reduction in end to
end development
time
10xAverage report
execution time
improvement
Company
Fairfax Media Pty. Ltd.
Headquarters
Sydney, Australia
Industry
Media & Entertainment
Products and Services
Digital Media
Newspapers
Radio
Events
Video
Employees
5,515 (2016)
Revenue
AUD 1,837 (2016)
Web Site
www.fairfaxmedia.com.au
Partners
Internal Team
Business challenges
Access accurate information in a timely manner
Large amount of time spent downloading and manipulating spreadsheets
Multiple ERP Systems with different chart
Technical implementation
Implemented SAP BW edition for SAP HANA
Infrastructure provided by AWS
Development and prototyping with live data
4 layers landscape (Sandbox, Development, Test & Production)
Key benefits
Enablement of Financial Operational self service analysis and reporting
Business stakeholder and key users embedded in report development
process
Enablement of cost savings initiatives by analyzing detailed expenditure
information
“The use of SAP BW edition for SAP HANA has
enabled us to deliver a new analytic platform to our
constantly changing business in 3 months with
minimal upfront investment and using an extremely
flexible environment using AWS. ”
Diego Lombardini, Head of Finance Systems, Fairfax Media Pty. Ltd.
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• SAP HANA Virtual appliance delivery
• Automated infrastructure and SAP HANA
provisioning
• Delivers SAP certified configurations, including
single and multi-node deployments
• Incorporates AWS and SAP best practices
• Self service and customizable
• Quick Starts are free - pay only for the resources you
use
• Deploy SAP HANA in minutes vs. weeks or months
https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart
Automated Deployments with AWS Quick Starts
“Using AWS SAP HANA Quick Start, we
only needed to push a few buttons to get
a functioning SAP HANA solution.”
Philip Miller
Philip Miller, Director, Brooks Brothers
SAP HANA clusterPublic subnet Private subnet
CloudWatch alarm
IAM role / instance profile
security group
EBS volumesBucket containing
SAP HANA software
NAT gateway Bastion host and/or RDP
instance (optional)
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Quick Start for SAP HANA
Infrastructure as Code
Demo
Common migration scenarios
• Migrate from existing EC2 instances
• Migrate from any DB to an SAP HANA database on AWS
• Migrate an SAP HANA based installation from another
platform/on-premises to X1 on AWS
Tools and methodologies
• Amazon EC2 instance type resizing
• AWS Server Migration Service or partner tooling
• Quick Start +
• Simple backup and restore
• SAP HANA classical migration
• SUM DMO or DMO for Cloud
Migrating SAP HANA to X1 on AWS
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Moving to AWS Is More Than Just “Lift and
Shift”
SAP Solution running on a NON-
AWS Cloud environment
• Rigid / un-flexible
• Low utilization (~40% capacity)
• High cost
SAP Solution running on AWS
• Flexible – scale up / down in minutes
• Adapt to changing business needs
• Integrate with other AWS services
Step 1: Migrate
Step 2: Optimize
Step 3: Automate
Se
cu
rity
Sizing
Resiliency
Su
pp
ort
& M
onito
rin
g
Sca
lab
ility
Availability
Zone AAvailability
Zone B
Availability
Zone C
Sample Region
Amazon
CloudWatch
Alarm
Primary
HANA Primary
HANA Primary
HANA
Secondary
HANA
Auto Recovery Optimized HA Full HA/DR
+
SAP OSS support
BC-OP-LNX-AWS
BC-OP-NT-AWS
Sizing based
on actual
demand
AWS Data
Provider
For SAP
Hardware
Upgrades in
minutes
Optimizing SAP HANA Workloads on AWS
NEW:
SAP on AWS High Availability Guide
Availability
Zone AAvailability
Zone B
Availability
Zone C
Sample Region
Optimize: SAP High Availability
Physical Host X
AWS Hypervisor
Virtual Machine
Physical Host Physical Hardware
Y
AWS Hypervisor
SAP
Virtual Machine
• Running • Host/hypervisor
failure or loss of
network connectivity
• SAP virtual machine
is unavailable
• SAP virtual machine
started on a new
physical host
• Amazon EBS persistent
volumes are mapped by
default
SAP
Virtual Machine
Physical Host Y
AWS Hypervisor
SAP Virtual
Machine
• Running (new host)
Physical Hardware
X
AWS Hypervisor
SAP
Virtual Machine
Result:
• Better uptime numbers, no waiting for hardware repairs
• Leverage hardware spares at no additional cost
Amazon
CloudWatch
Alarm
Detect & Trigger
Automatic recovery of an EC2 instance when underlying checks fail, due to,
among other things, loss of network connectivity, loss of system power, software
issues on the physical host, and hardware issues on the physical host
Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery
• Use HANA System Replication
(HSR) in Synchronous mode
• Turn off preload option
• Use same size EBS volume
configuration as primary - Memory
requirements for secondary instance
drastically reduced
• Use an smaller instance type with at
least 64 GB of RAM or row store +
20 GB (whichever is higher)
• During a failover event, resize
secondary instance to X1 and
resume operation
Example: Optimizing SAP HANA HA
(Multi-AZ)
Optimize: Trusted Advisor
Monitors and recommends
optimizations for
• Cost
• Security
• Fault tolerance
• Performance
Available to customers with
business and enterprise-level
support
Four checks available as Free Tier http://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/
“Over the last couple years, we’ve sent more than 2.6 million Trusted Advisor
notifications that have saved customers over US$350 million dollars.”
Increase
speed
Innovate
fasterReduce
costs
* Pricing based on US-East region as of 08/14/2016
SAP and AWSAccelerating the Digital Transformation Journey
• Rapid Provision: Create new HANA systems through AWS Quick Start in <1 hr
• Grow (or shrink) as you go: Scale-in or scale-out your configuration in <1 hour
• Expertise: SAP, AWS, and joint partner ecosystem
• Secure: Innovate while maintaining a secure environment
• Simplify: Clone and upgrade systems with ease
• Consume:Provision new SAP innovations through SAP’s Cloud Appliance Library (CAL)
• Low Cost of Entry: 2 TB for 40 hours <$700* whitespace
• Flexible pricing: Achieve up to 72% discount on X1 for 3-year commitments
• Optimize: Flexible HA/DR strategy Integrated monitoring Trusted Advisor
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