Joint NetApp and Cisco Solutions for SAP HANA Craig Sullivan

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Cisco SAP HANA Scale-out Appliance

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Cisco SAP HANA Scale-out Appliance Building Block Overview

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FAS8040 HA Pair with cDOT

5 x DS2246, 600GB disks

10Gb Ethernet

and NFS

6 SAP HANA Database Nodes

5 x DS2246, 600GB disks

FAS8040 HA Pair with cDOT

Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server with 1TB RAM

6 SAP HANA Database Nodes

Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server with 1TB RAM

10Gb Ethernet

and NFS

NetApp Solutions for SAP HANA

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SAP HANA - NetApp Product Integration

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HANA Appliance Certified Storage for HANA TDI

Cisco Ivy Bridge Servers FAS

Product Family

E-Series

Product Family

Multi-node FAS8040

FAS3250, FAS3270

FAS62xx

FAS80xx

E2700 and larger

EF540 and larger

Single node No

FAS3250, FAS3270

FAS62xx

FAS80xx

E2700 and larger

EF540 and larger

Backup, Recovery

with storage-

based Snapshots

Snap Creator plug-in

for SAP HANA No

Disaster Recovery

with asynchronous

storage replication

Snap Creator plug-in

for SAP HANA No

Disaster Recovery

with synchronous

storage replication

Fabric MetroCluster No

HANA Streamed Backup Approach

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HANA Studio triggers a “global synchronized backup save point”

HANA Backup stream can be

directly written to disk

send to a backup server using SAP HANA “backint” interface

Challenges

Long backup operation

Performance impact during backup operation

Slow restore and recovery

Option 1:

Backup to disk

Option 2:

Backup with Backint

Backup

Server

SAP HANA

Backup Overview

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Data Backup

Data

Snapshot

Copies

SnapVault Snapshot

Copies

Backup Storage Primary Storage

SAP HANA

Archival Storage

NDMP

Fast Backup and Recovery

Backup Load decoupled from production systems

Snap Creator plug-in for HANA

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Snap Creator framework

with HANA plug-in

hdbsql client

HANA backup

savepoint HANA database node

Management Server

running Snap Creator

Data Backup

Data

Snapshot

Copies SnapVault

HANA backup catalog

management

Data and Log Backup

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Data Backup

Data

Snapshot

Copies

SnapVault

Backup executed

by Snap Creator

and HANA plug-in

Log Backup

Log

Backup executed

by HANA backup

engine

Backup Log volume

mounted with NFS

at HANA Node

Snapshot

Copies

Backup Storage

Snapshot Backups in HANA Studio

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Snapshot names

are used as backup ID

in HANA backup catalog

SAP System Refresh

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Production Test

Shared

Log

Data

Production

Shared

Log

Test

Data

FlexClone

Copy

Process described in HANA Administration Guide

Create FlexClone copy from Snapshot backup of production system

Provide log backups from production for forward recovery if desired

HANA Studio at target system

Recover database to a specific data backup or point in time recovery if desired

Initialize log area

Install new license key

SAP System Refresh at Backup Storage

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Production Test

Shared

Log

Data

Production

Shared

Log

Test

Data

FlexClone

Copy

Backup

Data

SnapVault

HANA DR with asynchronous mirroring

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Asynchronous

SnapMirror

Production source

SAP HANA Production

HANA

compute

nodes

Production mirror

Global synchronized backup save point is created (HANA Snapshot)

Storage Snapshots are created for all data volumes

HANA Snapshot is dropped

Snapshots of all data volumes are replicated to DR storage

1

4

3

2

Dev/Test at Disaster Recovery Site

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Production source

SAP HANA Production

HANA

compute

nodes

Production mirror

Dev/Test storage

During normal operation servers at the DR site can be used

for development and test

SAP System copies for Dev/Test can be created at the disaster

recovery site using FlexClone copies

FlexClone

Copies

Asynchronous

SnapMirror

SAP HANA Dev/Test

HANA

compute

nodes

Failover

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Production source

SAP HANA Production

HANA

compute

nodes

Production mirror

Dev/Test storage

In case of a disaster, the Dev/Test servers are used for DR

production and are connected to the production mirror

Failover in around 30 minutes + HANA start time

Asynchronous

SnapMirror

HANA

compute

nodes

6. Start HANA

1. Break the Snapmirror relationship

3. Stop dev / test systems

4. Adapt server configuration

2. SnapRestore DR volumes

4. Boot servers

5. Run HANA post steps

SAP HANA DR Production

Thank you

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