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Virtualization Solutions for SAP HANASUSE® Linux Enterprise is the leading platform for SAP solutions on Linux and the recommended and supported operating system (OS) of choice for SAP HANA. SAP HANA now runs in production on vSphere 5.5, letting you combine the power of the SAP HANA in-memory platform with VMware vSphere and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP to achieve faster time-to-value, better service levels and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for your production environments.

SUSE and VMware Solutions for SAP HANA at a glance:+ VMwareandSUSEofferthebestsolution

forvirtualizingSAP+ SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerforSAPis

recommendedbyVMwareforSAPHANAdeploymentsonvSphere

+ OptimizedforfastSAPdeploymentandperformance

+ Integratedhighavailability+ Integratedprioritysupport+ vSphere5.5production-readyforSAPHANA

Products:

SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerfor

SAPApplications

FlyerServer

Virtualizing SAP HANA Lowers TCO SAPHANAisanin-memorycomputingplatformthathascompletelytransformedtherelationaldatabaseindustry.Itcom-binesdatabase,applicationprocessingandintegrationservicesonasingleplat-form.SAPHANAistypicallydeployedonacomplete,pre-configuredappliance,whichisprovidedbyacertifiedSAPHANAhardwarepartner.However,theSAPHANATailoredDatacenterIntegration(TDI)op-tionallowscustomerstoleverageexist-ingassetsforsomeelementsoftheSAPHANAenvironment.TheSAPTDIprogramprovidesgreaterflexibilityfordeployingSAPHANAinavirtualenvironmentandre-ducesbothcapitalexpenditures(CapEx)andoperatingexpenses(OpEx)byallow-ingthereuseofexistinghardware,aswellasleveragingcurrentoperationalmanage-mentprocesses.

Not All Data Is the SameSAPMulti-TemperatureDataManagementtechniqueslikeDynamicTieringandNearLineStorageallowyoutosignificantlyre-ducethesizeandcostassociatedwithyourSAPHANAin-memoryfootprint.SAPHANADynamicTieringallowscus-tomerstoplaceupto40percentofdata(andinthefutureupto70percent)onstandardx86hardware.Now,SAPHANAmulti-terabytesizedatabasescanbeeasilyvirtualizedwithvSphere5.5usingthesememorymanagementtechniquesthatSAPhasintroducedtooptimizeandreduceHANA’sin-memoryfootprint.

DynamicTieringisanadd-onproducttoSAPHANAthatletsyoumanagedataofdifferenttemperatures:hotdata(alwaysinmemory),colddata(disk-baseddatastore)andwarmdata(notalwaysinmem-ory),whichhaslowerlatencyrequirementsthanhotdata.SAPHANADynamicTiering

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Server FlyerVirtualization Solutions for SAP HANA

utilizesanextendedtableconceptthatal-lowsyoutostorewarmdatainextendedtablesthataremanagedbySAPHANA.DatathatisinitiallyfrequentlyaccessedandthenonlyusedoccasionallyonceitreachesacertainageisclassifiedascoldandcanberemovedfromtheSAPHANAdatapersistenceandstoredinanacces-siblearchive.ThesolutionofferedbySAPisNear-LineStorage(NLS)withSAPIQ.

Production SAP HANA on vSphere 5.5WithDynamicTiering,SAPHANAisnotconfinedbythesizeofavailablememorysincetheSAPHANAwarmdatacanbestoredondiskinacolumnarformatandaccessedtransparentlybyapplications.Thus,the1TBvirtualmachinemaximuminvSphere5.5isanartificialbarrier,andSAPHANAmulti-terabytesizedatabasescanbeeasilyvirtualizedwithvSphere5.5usingDynamicTiering,Near-LineStorageandothermemorymanagementtech-niquesSAPhasintroducedtotheSAPHANAplatformtooptimizeandreduceHANA’sin-memoryfootprint.

By combining the power of the SAPHANAin-memorydatabaseplatformwithVMwarevSphereandSUSELinuxEnter-priseServerforSAPApplications,organi-zationscanachievefastertime-to-value,betterservicelevelsandlowerTCOfortheirSAPHANAproductionenvironmentswithfullSAP,VMwareandSUSEsupport.CustomerscanmaximizetheperformanceandagilityofSAPHANAinthemostflex-ible,cost-effectivewaywhileoptimizingtheirdatacenteroperationswithadvancedfeaturesfromVMware,suchasvSpherevMotion,vSphereDistributedResourceScheduler(DRS),vSphereHighAvailability(HA)andDisasterRecovery(DR).

SUSE Linux Enterprise Best Choice for SAPSUSELinuxEnterpriseistheleadingplat-formforSAPsolutionsonLinux,thenum-beroneplatformforSAPHANAandtheLinuxplatformrecommendedbyVMwareintheirguide“BestPracticesandRecom-mendationsforScale-upDeploymentsofSAPHANAonVMwarevSphere.”*SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerforSAPAppli-cationsincludesanumberSAP-optimi-zationfeatures:

The page cache limit feature limitstheamountofpage-cacheusedandoptimizestheLinuxpagingbehavior.ThisfeatureiscrucialforSAPappli-cationstoimproveperformance.

Antivirus toolkit integrationwiththeSAPVirusScanInterfaceimprovescross-platformthreatdetection

End-to-end installation frameworkenablesanintegrated,unattendedandautomatedinstallationworkflowforvalidatedSAPsolutions.

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability ExtensionprovidesanintegratedclusteringsolutionforphysicalandvirtualLinuxdeployments,enablingtheimplementationofhighlyavailableLinuxclustersandeliminatingsinglepointsoffailure.

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Figure 1. SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerforSAPApplications

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Available live kernel patchingallowsyoutoupdatesecuritypatcheswithoutrebootingmachinesandwaitingforthenextservicewindow,reducingthedowntimeofhugein-memorydatabaseslikeSAPHANA.

Full system rollbackgivesSAPcustomersbetterresiliencybylettingthemtakesnapshotsofthesystem,includingthekernelfiles,androllingbackasneeded.

Resource agentsenhancetheSAPHANAsystemreplicationssetupbyautomatingtakeoverandreducingthelengthandthenumberofinterruptionsforbothyourbusiness-criticalSAP

systemsandyourSAPHANAdatabases.

Integrated priority support and maintenancethroughSAPSolutionManagerfrombothSUSEandSAP.

Extended service pack overlap support givesyouservicepacksupportforafull18months,12monthsmorethanthestandard6-monthgraceperiod.

High Availability with Automated FailoverSince2011,SUSEandSAPhaveconstantlyworkedonimprovingthescalabilityandhighavailabilityofSAPHANAsothat

customerscangrowtheirdeploymentsto

includemultiplenodesandtruebigdata

environments.Toensurehighavailabil-

ityanddisasterrecovery,SUSEsupports

replicationofyourSAPHANAsystem

withinthesamedatacenteroracrosstwo

datacentersbyincludingcomponentsof

SUSELinuxEnterpriseHighAvailability

ExtensionwithSUSELinuxEnterpriseServerforSAPApplications.Sincesystemfailurecanoccuratanytimeoftheday,nightorweekend,SUSEautomatesthesystemreplicationprocesstosimplifythefailoverprocedureandminimizethetimesystemsaredown.

Figure 2. Performance-optimizedsystemreplicationforSAPHANA

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