Use Hybrid Cloud to Streamline SAP with NetApp, AWS and SAP LVM

Use Hybrid Cloud to Streamline SAP with NetApp, AWS, and SAP LVM

Bruce Burns, Vice President, Cloud Business Group, NetApp

Hubert Becker, Development Expert, SAP SE

Bernd Herth, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp

Agenda

Intro

NetApp, Inc.

Our journey to the AWS cloud

Customer Best Practices

Deploying SAP on AWS using NetApp Storage and SAP VLM

NetApp Private Storage architecture and use cases

SAP specific case studies

Be prepared – be cloud ready

How to get there

AWS SFO Summit

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NetApp Overview

Number 1 Storage OS on the planet – ONTAP

Large Storage Arrays – Fabric Attached Storage – NFS, CIFS, iSCSI

SMB, Enterprise, Governments, Telco, Hosting customers worldwide

Supporting AWS and other hyperscalers, cloud providers – provide customer choice

Data Fabric – data storage and management for our customers’ hybrid cloud environments

Storage and Data Management


On CloudsOn Prem

Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

AWS

Hyperscalers

On-Prem

Private Cloud

Hosted

Cloud

Data Fabric Strategy

StorageGRID Webscale

SteelStore

NetApp’s AWS Cloud Journey

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NetApp Cloud ONTAP

Amazon EC2

AWS Direct Connect

NetApp Private Storage

ArchiveBackupEnterprise Workloads

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Co-Location - Equinix

Amazon Glacier

Amazon S3

Amazon Glacier

Amazon S3

On-Prem or Co-LocationOn-Cloud or On-Prem

SteelStoreAppliance

EC2

Amazon EC2

On-Cloud

AWS QuickStart: SQL Server Clustering with Cloud ONTAPBest Practices – Automation


Availability Zone 1

Workload

IIS IIS

Auto-Scale

Amazon

VPC

Amazon

Route 53

OCCM

AD

Management

Infrastructure

EBS EBS EBS EBS EBS

NetApp

Cloud ONTAP

SQL Server

Workload

IIS IIS

Auto-Scale

Amazon

VPC

NetApp

Availability Zone 2

Cloud ONTAP

EBS EBS EBS EBS EBS

SQL Server

NetApp Test Drives and Automated Proof of Conceptspoc.NetApp.com site


Deploying SAP via LVM & NetApp Storage on AWS

Hubert Becker, Development Expert, SAP SE

Bernd Herth, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp


SAP

Offers customers a private cloud HEC – HANA Enterprise Cloud

SAP aggressively markets its cloud solution to customers

Offers systems at Amazon with SAP LVM integration

Has joined OpenStack as Gold Member

Planning internally to harmonize cloud solutions based on OpenStack

Cloud business is growing

2014 cloud business growth +33%

Both companies are “cloud” focused

NetApp

Cloud products

NetApp Private Storage for AWS (NPS)

Cloud ONTAP for AWS

OpenStack Gold Member

Contributes enterprise storage drivers

Cinder, Swift, Glance, Manila


Technical

SAP I/O & performance requirements

High CPU/memory (SAPS)

Disk I/O and latency

Disaster recovery site

Expensive second DC/different region

“Idle” resources

Data migration

Terabytes to move

Keep it up to date

Get it back

SAP customer challenges/requirements to move into the cloud

Business

Data security

Where is it stored? Who owns the data ?

Legal and company policies and rules

Transport and storage encryption

TCO

Don’t pay for idle hardware/pay for utilization

Business flexibility

New projects/business changes/mergers

Test new products/functions

Adoption of new applications

Operation

Need to integrate into company standard processes


SAP Landscape Virtualization Management


Simplify

Automate provisioning of your SAP systems

Schedule tasks and manage dependencies

Automate your repetitive basis admin tasks

Get notifications on landscape events

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM)

Automate

Centralize your SAP landscape operations

Get landscape-wide visibility and control

Integrate and manage your non-SAP applications

Tailor to your needs, customize the user context

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Provisioning SAP Systems

End-to-end system clone, copy

and refresh for SAP systems

including SAP HANA systems

Post-copy automation (PCA) for

ABAP/Java

System rename

Synchronized clones

Landscape Management

Landscape visualization

Landscape reporting

Single/Mass operations on SAP

systems and resources

Customized dashboards

Takeover procedure for SAP HANA

system replication

Task scheduler

Extensibility

Custom provisioning

Custom operations/hooks

Custom services

External interfaces

Custom link/tabs

Custom notifications

Custom validation

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management 2.1Overview of product functionality


Application virtualization requires:

Using “virtual hostnames” to address the instances

Using a “central user store”

Being installed on a central storage system

Adaptive Design Principles


Virtual Hostname

& IP

Dynamic Storage Layout

Adaptive Design

A computing infrastructure is called adaptive if it allows the dynamic

assignment of hardware resources to serve specific application services.

SAN

SAP LVM Architecture

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SAP NetWeaver Java ≥ 7.30

Central Storage

Management

SAP LVM

Storage API

Virtualization API

Storage Adapter

Virtualization

Adapter

Storage

Library

Platform

Library

SAP Host Agent

sapacosprep

Database

Library

Custom

Exit

VM

Management

Managed NodeManagement Server

Instance (AWS)

NAS/NFS

LAN

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SAP LVM NetApp Storage AdapterNetApp SSC : for ONTAP in cDOT/7-mode

Storage

Computation

SAP LVM

Central point-of-contact

DBSAP

SAP System

SAP Host Agent

NFS

SAP System

SAP Host Agent

NetApp Storage Library

NetApp SnapDrive Windows

DBSAP

iSCSI, FC

SAP System

SAP Host Agent

NetApp Storage Library

NetApp SnapDrive Unix

DBSAP

iSCSI, FC

NetApp SSC

Allows LVM to manage the

underlying NetApp storage

Dire

ct com

mun

ication


Hypervisor

SAP Landscape Virtualization Manager (LVM)

Operation

Start/stop/relocate

Storage adapter: NetApp SSC (Storage Service Connector)

System copy/clone with SAP post processing

Utilize NetApp “snap” features

Virtualization adapter VMware/AWS

Start/stop/suspend/destroy

Provisioning

SAP LVM

AMI AMI AMI

VPC

AWS

SSC

VPC – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

AMI – Amazon Machine Image


NetApp Private Storage architecture and use cases


NetApp solutions for AWS

On-Premises

Private Cloud

Cloud Manager

Colocation

NPS

NetApp

Private

Storage

AWS

Direct

Connect

VPC

AWSAWS

VPC

SnapVault/

SnapMirrorSnapVault/

SnapMirror

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Performance

Up to 12 10 GB Direct Connect links/low latency

NetApp feature set for SAP

Snapshot-based backup/recovery for all databases

Replication from primary to DR site

SAP clone/copy utilizing snapshots

Data synchronization

Highly efficient snapshot-based synchronization

Data refresh

Data security

Storage in customer-owned cage at colocation (now also available in Germany)

Optional data/disk encryption

Storage features for the cloud NetApp Private Storage


On-Premises

Private Cloud

Direct Connect

Location

AWS

Direct

Connect

VPC

AWS

SnapVault/

SnapMirror

SAP benefits and use case

All NetApp features are available

Use AWS as DR site

Run dev. and test

Multi-tier backup

Cloud centered data center consolidation

Clear data ownership

Integrated SAP LVM management


On-Premises

Private Cloud

Direct Connect

Location

AWS

Direct

Connect

SnapVault/

SnapMirror

VPC

AWSAWS

VPC

SnapVault/

SnapMirror

SSC

SAP LVM

All managed by SAP LVM

LVM – clone from secondary site

Snapshot copies already at DR site

SSC manages primary/secondary ONTAP

LVM clones from primary > secondary

User selects existing snapshot copy via custom menu

No wait for transfer


On-Premises

Private Cloud

Direct Connect

Location

AWS

Direct

Connect

SnapVault/

SnapMirror

VPC

AWS SAP LVM

SSC

Enhanced Provisioning

PRD’ PRD

SAP LVM AWS integration

SAP system cloning via NetApp SSC from on premises into the cloud

Live demo


SAP specific case study

Small/medium SAP customers

Use hyperscaler for DR site/training or sandbox/dev and QA

SAP system landscape

ERP GTS HCM

Portal SCM ME

BW PI HCM

Dev

ERP GTS HCM

Portal SCM ME

BW PI HCM

QA

ERP GTS HCM

Portal SCM ME

BW PI HCM

Pro

LVM SCM MESAP LVM

Sol SCM MESolMan

HA storage cluster

Snapshot based cloning

Data protection


Option 1: Fully virtualized

SAP application servers in the cloud

Database servers in the cloud attached to Cloud ONTAP storage

Option 2: All servers virtualized


Database servers in the cloud

NetApp Private Storage at colocation

Option 3: Only App servers virtualized


Database servers at colocation

NetApp Private Storage at colocation

Architecture options


Direct Connect

Location

NetApp

Private Storage

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Landscape requirements

AWS mapping

Small/medium SAP customers

Landscape Systems SAPS IOPS Size (GB) RAM (GB)

DEV 8 20,000 12,750 2,200 160

QAS 8 22,500 14,250 4,800 160

PRD 8 39,000 24,900 5,500 320

Total 81,500 51,900 12,500 640

Sample figures – use case all


Landscape r3.large r3.xlarge m2.2xlarge

r3.xlrage

m2.4xlarge

r3.2xlarge

DEV 6 2

QAS 6 2

PRD 6 2

Use case 1: AWS as DR site

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

Dev

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

QA

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

Pro

LVMSCM

ME

SAP LVM

SolSCM

MESolMan

Direct Connect

Location

NPS

AWS

Direct

Connect

VPC

AWS

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

Production data synchronized into cloud

Optional incl. QA systems

AWS instances reserved but not started

200 Mbit 2 * 1 GB

8 instances~ h for testing


Use case 2: Clones at DR site for training/sandbox

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

Dev

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

QA

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

Pro

LVMSCM

ME

SAP LVM

SolSCM

MESolMan

AWS

Direct

Connect

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

Production data synchronized into cloud

Optional incl. QA systems

Create and use cloned system landscape at DR site for training/sandbox

No extra storage

Start/stop/refresh on demand

200 Mbit 2 * 1 GB

8 Instances50 h/week


VPC

AWS

Direct Connect

Location

NPS

Use case 3: DR site for Dev & QA

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

Pro

LVMSCM

ME

SAP LVM

SolSCM

MESolMan

AWS

Direct

Connect

VPC

AWS

Only production HW on-premise

Less compute/less storage (I/O)/less DC gear

Higher storage consumption at co-lo

Dev/QA running at AWS

Start/stop on demand

Additional copies for training/sandbox, etc.…

Dev QA

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

ERP GTSHCM

Portal

SCM

ME

BW PIHCM

200 Mbit

4 * 1 GB

16 instances50 h/week

Less storageless servers


Direct Connect

Location

NPS

Be prepared—be cloud ready

Analyze your on-premises systems

Set the foundation

If not yet done – switch to NetApp as basis for your SAP infrastructure

Use NFS (or iSCSI) to embrace the flexibility of the data fabric

Are your SAP systems prepared to move into the cloud?

Do they leverage the adaptive design principle?

Do you use SAP LVM?

Are you using NetApp Snapshot technology for backups?

At least you should be able to separate “sap” volumes from your OS!

Do you have a complete picture of your network infrastructure?

How do the users access the SAP systems?

What additional devices are connected?

What is your network topology?

Be cloud ready


Know your landscape

What is your data change rate?

If you use snapshots – what is the change rate of SAPdata volumes?

What is the change rate for SAPlog volumes (i.e., redo logs/archive logs depending on your database)

What is your system utilization?

In order to define the required compute, analyze your average/peak system load

What are your SLAs?

RPO/RTO

What is your DR performance requirement?

Backup requirements for NON-production systems

What are your I/O, capacity, and bandwidth requirements?


How to get there

SAP on AWS using NetApp and LVM

How to get there


Self-managed

Utilize your known contracts/partners/support channels

AWS account/NetApp partner/Network provider to connect to colocation

Contract with colocation provider (e.g. Equinix)

SAP consulting partner with NetApp experience to make the transition

Consulting service partners

Contact a NetApp consulting/service partner to define service packages to provide turnkey deployment services

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Use Hybrid Cloud to Streamline SAP with NetApp, AWS and SAP LVM