Migrating to SAP HANA – Lessons Learned from TDI-based Deployment Scenarios

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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Locations: Palo Alto (California, USA), São Paulo (Brazil), Waldorf (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Bangalore (India), Shanghai (China), Singapore, and Tokyo (Japan).


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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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


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…


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


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


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


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


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


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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MANAGEBUILDPLAN

Cloud Evaluation Service for SAP HANA

BW to HANA & RDSCustom Data Load

and ETL

HANA Optimization

Program Management Office

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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


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


TDI Complexities and Strategies


TDI Fundamentals


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


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


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


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)


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


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


HANA Tips


Success Stories | Case Studies• Over ~20 TDI-based HANA projects on-going

• Dozens more that are Partner/Ecosystem-lead (vs Cisco AS- lead)


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


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.


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


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


SAP Experience on Cisco Build & Price

One-Stop Shop for the ‘How to’, ‘How Much’, and ‘Who Else’ Questions


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

http://www.cisco.com/go/sap

http://www.cisco.com/go/sap

http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

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