Cisco & MapR bring 3 Superpowers to SAP HANA Deployments

Robert Novak and Barbara Miller, Big Data Partners Consulting SEs, CiscoAndy Lerner, Partner Solution Architect, MapRFeaturing Cisco IT

March 2017

Cisco & MapR bring 3 Superpowers to your SAP HANA Deployments

2© 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public

For Cisco:Robert Novak, retired UNIX sysadmin,now Consulting Systems Engineer on the Partner Alliance with MapR

Barbara Miller, Consulting Systems Engineer on the Partner Alliance with SAP

For MapR: Andy Lerner, Partner Solution ArchitectWorks with partners to certify their solutionsOn the MapR Converged Data Platform


Sometimes superpowers come later in life, whether for a superhero or an application platform.

1. Context of Cisco and MapR for SAP HANA

2. Defining the Solution – bringing Cisco, MapR, and SAP together

3. Cisco IT implementation of joint solution

4. A peek behind the covers for storage resilience

5. Where do we go from here?

What are we talking about today?


Setting The Context:Cisco and MapR for SAP HANA Production Deployments


Modern platform scaling enables you to match the compute and storage to the applicationTraditional applications (like SAP HANA) may not make this easyAin’t nobody got time for that

Last time we talked…


What if…

Your scalable storage and compute platform provided industry-standard access methods like NFS

Existing applications like SAP HANA could plug right in with no recoding

New applications, including the Hadoop ecosystem, could live side by side with traditional applications


With Cisco UCS(Unified Computing System)and MapR’s Converged Data Platform…

Your infrastructure can do just that.

Amazing but true.

(Tell me more?)


Defining the Solution:Validated Design for SAP HANA with MapR Converged Data Platform on Cisco UCS Infrastructure


• In-memory Database • Scale-up OLTP single node ERP applications (SoH, S4H)• Scale-out OLAP multi node Data Warehouse (BWoH, DM)

• SAP HANA delivery models• Appliance• Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI)

• Enterprise Storage (November 2013)• Xeon-based Servers (November 2014)

• Cloud

SAP HANA High-Level Overview

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• HANA in memory but still uses storage• Data persisted to disk periodically (/hana/data/<SID>)• Transaction logs persisted to disk on commit (/hana/logs/<SID>)• Database backup (/hana/backup)• Executables, tools, etc (/hana/shared)

SAP HANA Storage


SAP Hardware Certification for HANA *

Certification detail available at global.sap.com

https://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/appliances.html#search=cisco&recordid=661


Cisco Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA

Appliance Launched 3/29/16

HANA Compute / Network

HANA Storage

• 4-16 x 2TB B460 HANA nodes• 2x 6332 FI• 1x N3K (or N9K / ACI)• Mandatory HWCCT Appliance KPI met• Mandatory Solution Support• Opt-out Cisco Managed Service

• Scalable C240 storage• 3-8x C240 Storage Nodes• 24x 1.8T HDD• RHEL 6• MapR Data Platform

HANA Appliance


TDI Shared Network – Hadoop/Vora

HANA Appliance

HANA Storage

MapR Hadoop, Vora, or other application

Cluster


HANA Nodes

Global Storage Pool

Other Application Nodes

• Scalable C240 storage• NAS Shared File System (NFS v3)• 3-xx C240 Storage Nodes• 24x 1.8T HDD• RHEL 6• MapR Data Platform

SAP Big Data Platform SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

UCS C240 Integrated Solution for SAP

SAP HANA Vora Ready


Cisco SAP HANA Appliance HardwareAppliance

Tested Configuration 8:4– Passes strict SAP fsperf KPI– Validated by SAP2:1 HANA:MapR node ratioUp to 16:8 ratio supported

TDIUCS C240 NFS (MapR based)

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Real Time Unified Security Multi-tenancy Disaster Recovery Global NamespaceHigh Availability

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HDFS API POSIX (FUSE, NFS) Kakfa APIHBase API OJAI API

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SAP HANA MapR StorageCLIENT NODE(S)

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MapR cluster


Real-World Customer Case:How Cisco IT deploys and uses the Cisco/MapR joint solution for its production SAP HANA environment

Dileep Moturi, Program Manager, Cisco IT


SAP HANA Use cases at Cisco IT•Run the Business Dashboards for Sales•Weekly Sales Forecasting Process•Pipeline Analytics for Sales & Finance•Strategy & Planning Analysis

ProductSales

• Increase Attach Rate and Renewal Rates for Support Contracts

•Unified view of Product and Services Sales

ServicesSales

•End-to-End Visibility Across Entire Supply Chain• Improve Order cycle time for Manufacturing and Distribution

SupplyChain

•Global and Regional Partner Organization Reporting (Channels)

•Partner Incentive and Performance Analysis

Channel Sales

•Real-time visibility in Sales Discounting •Discount Guidance and Pricing Analytics

Commerce Pricing

Sidecar Approach


Infrastructure Capacity Growth

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

HANA Infra Capacity in TB

PROD CapacityNon PROD Capacity

What’s driving Infrastructure demand at Cisco?

• New use cases• Increase in data volume • Increase in users• Fast IT : More non prod instances

Challenges

• Agility to grow linearly • Cost• Demand for more compute power


A quick look behind the covers


Disk Configuration with Hardware RAID

• 2x 2.5” SSDs for OS and logs• 24x 2.5” disks for data • 4x RAID5 sets with 6 disks each• 1 virtual disk per RAID5• Local data protection

RAID5 Set 1 RAID5 Set 2 RAID5 Set 3 RAID5 Set 4


High Available NFS Access

• Virtual IP address with automated fail-over

• IP addresses are evenly distributed for load balancing

Volume 1

Storage Pool


Storage Pool


Volume 2

Volume 3

NFS-Mounts

NFS Gateway NFS Gateway

A03-030 0GA210K SAS300GB

N20-BBLKD

UCSEX M4

N20-BBLKD

UCSEX M4

UCS B460 M4

N20-BBLKD

VIP

VIP

VIP


• Single disk failure• local RAID5 configuration prevents failure of the storage pool• simply replace single disk, raid controller rebuilds automatically

• Multiple disk failure• if two disks of the same raid group fail, the storage pool is lost• MapR takes care of re-replicating lost containers on other storage pools

• Node failure• all lost containers will be re-replicated among the cluster

• immediately (if "minreplication" value is undershot) or after 1 hour

Failure Handling


Software Defined SAP App Landscape

SAP Applications (PRD)• SAP and SAP Related Workloads

Storage Pools for HANA Persistence

Non-SAP Applications• VDI, SharePoint, Exchange, etc.

Hadoop

Aggregation and Out-of-Band Management for SAP

(Cisco Nexus and UCS Fabric)

Storage Pool for SAP HANA

SAP BW on HANA (PRD)• Scale-out Cluster

SAP Suite on HANA (PRD)• 2+ Node Scale-up

HA Cluster


Where do we go from here?


• MapR & Cisco Make IT Better –Webinar Series continues1. It's No Use Going Back to Yesterday's Storage Platform

for Tomorrow's Applications (Available on mapr.com on-demand)2. Cisco & MapR bring 3 Superpowers to SAP HANA Deployments

(you’re soaking in it; on-demand soon)3. Join us for “Cisco & MapR for Software-Defined AND

Web-Scale Storage” (coming early May)

• Check out Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) for SAP deployments: cisco.com/go/bigdata_design

• Follow: @gallifreyan, @mapr, @Cisco, and @CiscoDC on Twitter• Meet us at Cisco Live, MapR Convergence, & Strata+Hadoop World

Resources

http://info.mapr.com/MapR-Cisco-Make-IT-Better.html

http://info.mapr.com/WB_MapR-Cisco-and-SAP-HANA-Deployments_Global_DG_17.03.29_RegistrationPage.html

http://cisco.com/go/bigdata_design

http://cisco.com/go/bigdata_design

http://twitter.com/gallifreyan

http://twitter.com/gallifreyan

https://twitter.com/mapr

https://twitter.com/mapr

https://twitter.com/cisco

https://twitter.com/CiscoDC

https://twitter.com/CiscoDC

http://www.ciscolive.com/us/?zid=cl-global-hinav

https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ny

https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ny


Thank you for joining us today.

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Cisco & MapR bring 3 Superpowers to SAP HANA Deployments