migrating to sap hana – lessons learned from tdi-based deployment scenarios
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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
June 17, 2015
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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).
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1. What is SAP’s S/4HANA Vision and Roadmap? – March 4, 2015 (done)
2. Deploying HANA via TDI – March 18, 2015 (done)
3. Understanding HANA Containers vs vHANA – April 15, 2015 (done)
4. Digesting Sapphire – May 20, 2015 (done)
5. Today - SAP Technical Upgrades - Best Practices and Lessoned Learned from Cisco Advanced Services on Deploying HANA via TDI
Educational Webinar Series – Wednesday at 10a PDT
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Links to the Recorded Content and Slideshares
Find the content from cisco.com/go/sap
Or directly on the CiscoBuild & Price Page for SAP
https://buildprice.cisco.com/sap
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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
Today’s Agenda
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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
(Deployment-level)
Key Concepts in HANA-driven Upgrade Projects…
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SAP (HANA-driven) Technical Upgrades…Please reference the ‘minimally-disruptive upgrade path to S/4HANA’ (What is S/4HANA webinar)
Plan Build Migrate Run
Budgeting• Assessments• TDI Gap Analysis• Sizing (HANA,
etc)• BCP (HA/DR)• ROM Estimates
• On-Premise• Cloud-First• Hybrid
ModelsTCO/ROI• Hardware,
Software, Services, Support
• Plus Chargeback
IaaS (On-Prem / Hybrid)• N+1 Landscapes
• New plus Old• TDI Design and Design
Reviews• BCP (HA/DR) Testing
ITSM • Rapid/Self-Service
Provisioning Tools• Service Assurance &
Monitoring• Security & RBAC
Controls
PaaS (Basis-level)• Module Upgrades• Custom Code
Remediation• Unicode
Conversions• OS/DB Migrations
IaaS/ITSM • TDI Performance
Certification/Test• Go-live Checks• BCP Checks
PaaS (Basis-level)• OS/DB Patch Mgmt• SW
Decommissioning• Service Assurance• SW Provisioning
IaaS/ITSM • HW
Decommissioning• Service Assurance• BIOS/FW Mgmt• HW Provisioning
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Cisco’s Vision and Strategy for HANA-driven Replatforming Projects - HANA via TDI
SAP Production (Analytics on HANA)
• 4+ Node Scale-out Cluster
SAP Production (Suite on HANA)
• 2+ Node Scale-up HA Cluster
SAP Production (Non-HANA)
• SAP and SAP Related Workloads
Non-SAP Related Workloads
• VDI, SharePoint, Exchange, etc.
Storage Pools for HANA Persistence
Run Production, Non-Production, HANA, and Non-HANA workloads together with Logical Isolation
Aggregation and Out-of-Band Management for SAP
(Cisco Nexus and UCS Fabric*)
Hadoop – 8 Node Cluster
SAP Non-Production Landscapes
Shared Storage
Non-HANA
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Partners
HANA Optimization
Cisco Advanced & Managed Services
(AS/CMS)
SmartNet & Solution Support
#1 Ranked Cisco Unified Data Center Solutions
(Certified for HANA – Appliance and TDI; Non-HANA)
Cisco Offers Choice and Reduced Risk
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
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Our Focus is on enabling SAP & SAP Customers to consume SAP’s Innovation – Hybrid Cloud
Orchestration Ready via Open API
Automates IT Processes with
Configuration by Policy
SaaS via SAP
Cloud-First
SAP onUCS
On-Premise
SAP’s ‘S/4HANA’ Vision runs Best on UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Only 50% of the Replatforming Projects will be Deployed On-
Premise
Joint G2Ms with NetApp, EMC, IBM, and Nimble
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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
SAP’s ‘S/4HANA’ Vision runs Best
on UCS Integrated Infrastructure
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TDI Lessons Learned and Case Studies• Cisco Solution Support for Critical Infrastructure (see ‘End to End
Solution Support’ per prior slide)
• Cisco Advanced Services Portfolio
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SA
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MANAGEBUILDPLAN
Cloud Evaluation Service for SAP HANA
BW to HANA & RDSCustom Data Load
and ETL
HANA Optimization
Program Management Office
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HA
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Infr
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HANA TDI PDI Service
Disaster Tolerance
SSPT for Critical Infrastructure
HANA TDI Design Review Service
HANA TDI Infrastructure Assessment
SAP HANA TDI PortfolioBusiness and Technical Value for SAP Solutions
HANA POC
System Expansion
Suite on HANA Workshop(S4) and Migration
Cisco Managed Services
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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
HANA Optimization Support
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TDI Complexities and Strategies
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TDI Fundamentals
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Customers expect TDI to fully integrate HANA in their environment CVDs will help but..
Larger deployments will rarely follow reference architectures verbatim
Customers want TDI environment to be configured like the rest of the DC.
Layer 8 and 9 issues
TDI “can easily become” Complex projects
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Expectations beyond Enterprise storage & shared network
User management tools LDAP integration
Management and Performance tools Symantec, Splunk
Backup tools
SAN design, Storage design, LAN Design, Virtualization strategy/bare metal, Replication/DR Design, etc………………………………..
Customers expect TDI Services to be integrated
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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
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Towers within customer environment do not communicate
Different priorities and management structures Cisco is not the preferred vendor for all
technologies
Project Management Major issue when working with one or more
partners Who owns what ?
Customers think of TDI as a way to reduce costs Only applies if they keep it simple
Layer 8 and 9 Issues (Politics)
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Virtualization
Non-Production for TDI or Appliance
Linux Clustering with auto-failover
RedHat – less available documentation than SuSe, Best Practices for HANA, it’s getting better
Advanced features from SPS09 MDC, Dynamic Tiering Cloud Deployments featuring MDC and Automation
Complexity Issues that apply to TDI and Appliance
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Understand Customer Requirements Identify stakeholders early Engage AS early-on large deals (or
delivery partner if not using AS delivery)
Create an Effective Communication Plan
Design Reviews We do not do a deployment without a
thorough review of the design Mandating Customer Requirements
Document (CRD) and Design documents for larger deals.
KT
AS Strategies for TDI
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HANA Tips
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Success Stories | Case Studies• Over ~20 TDI-based HANA projects on-going
• Dozens more that are Partner/Ecosystem-lead (vs Cisco AS- lead)
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Case Study - Global Insurance Company SAP TDI Services
AS Value for Customer
Experience level of Cisco Solution Architects in the SAP HANA helped customer to avoid pitfalls
Providing Support where customer had no understanding of technical Details
Extensive KT provided the customer significant comfort level moving forward.
Into 3rd Phase of Project
Client backgroundA leading international Insurance Company headquarted in Illinois
Challenge• First major TDI deployment with multiple
landscapes and system replication• First deployment of non-EMC /non-NetApp storage
in a Cisco HANA Solution• Siloed customer (25 customer resources on every
call all)• Zero customer experience with HANA
Solution• Enhanced the Design Review process to take a
lead role in the architecture and design (HLD, LLD)
• Performed entire installation over WebEx for customer to attend and learn
• Customer attended the onsite the installation and configuration of phase 2.
• Formalized KT process which took one week
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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.
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Cisco offers a complete portfolio of certified solutions for SAP and SAP HANA
Deploying HANA and S/4HANA via TDI on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions
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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
E5)
Single-Node EDW Architecture only
advised for low/slow growth
scenarios
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SAP Experience on Cisco Build & Price
One-Stop Shop for the ‘How to’, ‘How Much’, and ‘Who Else’ Questions
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Where to Find More Information
www.cisco.com/go/sap • Main Landing Page for SAP on UCS
• Links to SAP page on Cisco Build & Price
buildprice.cisco.com/sap• Featured Promotions, Certified HANA
Configurations, Real-World Reference Configurations (including Third Party Storage)
• Full listing of the Customer Success Stories for SAP on UCS Integrated Infrastructure (on FlexPod, on vBlock, etc…).
• Aggregated and Organized information about the Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) for SAP
www.cisco.com/go/ucs• More information on Cisco UCS
Thank you.