How to Right-Size Your SAP HANA® Landscape with Virtualization

Sean Donaldson Scott McIsaac Bob Goldsand

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Speakers

Sean Donaldson

Co-Chief Technology Officer

Secure-24

Len Landale

VP of ERP Applications

Secure-24

Bob Goldsand

Global Alliances Staff Partner Architect

VMware

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Secure-24 & VMware

» Secure-24 is a vCloud Powered cloud &

hosting provider

» With the VMware vCloud Powered service

offerings, clients benefit from the

performance and agility of cloud computing

without compromising security

» Secure-24 and VMware partner to offer

SAP HANA in a virtualized environment

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Agenda

» Faster Time-to-Production. Eliminate the delays of purchasing and

installing on-premise hardware.

» Speed, Agility and Reliability. Experience the entire SAP® landscape

running at the speed of business.

» Predictable Costs. Transform large capital expenditures into a single

monthly operational expense.

» Lower Total Cost of Ownership. Lower costs by simplifying complex and

expensive IT architectures -- hardware cost avoidance.

» Right-sizing Your SAP HANA Landscape. While maintaining SLAs using

workload management techniques.

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FASTER TIME TO

PRODUCTION

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Highlights

Lead time for deployment and installation with increased

uptime and improved DR

No need for hardware refreshes and no upfront capital

costs

High availability, simplified.

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SAP HANA Platform: Evolving Hardware Requirements

Hot

Warm Cold

vSphere 5.5

OS

SAP

HANA

Certified hardware

SAP HANA Service Pack 07 All Data Resides In-Memory

SAP HANA Service Pack 08 Multi-Temperature Data

SAP HANA Service Pack 09 Dynamic Data Tiering

vSphere 5.5 vSphere 4/5

OS

SAP

HANA

OS

SAP IQ

NLS

Certified Hardware x86 Hardware

- Hot & Warm Data in-memory - Cold Data Managed by IQ

- BW SAP IQ Near Line Storage - Data on Disk - SAP HANA Extended Tables - Does not require Certified Hardware

Hot Warm

Cold

vSphere 5.5 vSphere 4/5

OS

SAP

HANA

ES

Host

Certified Hardware x86 Hardware

SAP

IQ

NLS

- All Data Must Be In-Memory - Must Run on Certified Hardware

- Majority of Enterprise Data NOT in-memory - Hot Data for Real-Time Use Cases - Warm Data Extended Storage Host - BW Cold Data – IQ Near Line Storage

VMware vCloud Air - Investment Protection Against Changing Requirements

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Rapid Deployment of SAP HANA Databases

VMware Templates and Clones

• A clone is a copy of a virtual machine

• A template is a master copy of a virtual

machine

- Used to create many clones

Ex: SAP HANA Template

• Rapid deployment

- rpms, OSS notes, kernel parameters

• SAP Unified Installer

- SAP HANA, SAP HANA Studio, Life Cycle

Manager, Application Function Library (AFL), SAP

HANA Database Client

SAP HANA Customer Proof of

Concepts

• Use of VMware Templates for Multi-VM CA

Study

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SPEED & AGILITY

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Highlights

Throughput and performance

DRS

Cloning to create QA/isolated sandbox environments

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SAP HANA Overview

» SAP HANA is an in-memory data

platform

On-premise

• As Appliance

• Enterprise Storage -Tailored Datacenter

Integration (TDI)

In the cloud, or as a hybrid of the two

ACID Compliant

» SAP HANA platform for performing

Both real-time analytics & transaction

workloads

» Database and Application Logic

In-memory engine to transform

transactions, analytics, text analysis,

predictive and

spatial processing

» Perfect to run on VMware vCloud Suite

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The Reality of Running SAP Workloads on VMware

In the transactional world:

» Bursty sub-seconds workloads

» SAP ASE, Replication Server

– 10% of 250mSec is negligible

– Is it even measurable at the application

layer?

In the world of SAP HANA:

» Analytic or mixed workloads

» Example response times

– Without SAP HANA = 4620 seconds

– With SAP HANA = 14.5 seconds

– SAP HANA on vSphere = 16 seconds

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SAP HANA Response Times

Se

co

nd

s

Without SAP HANA

With SAP HANA

SAP HANA on VMware

15 16

5000

4500

4000

3500

3000

2500

2000

1500

1000

500

0

4620

It’s the same SAP HANA software

you’re used to in a dedicated

environment, but now it’s virtualized.

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Mission Critical: Zero Downtime Migrations

VMware vMotion

• Move running virtual machines across ESXi Server

Live Migrate SAP HANA Databases

• Zero downtime maintenance

• Migrate live databases

• Little impact to users

Critical For In-Memory Databases

• Preserves the entire state of memory

• Avoid a database – loses temp tables, computations

VMware vMotion – All or Nothing

• Like an atomic transaction; completes or does not complete

• Does not leave VM in phantom state

Live SAP HANA Database Migrations

vMotion

SAP HANA In-Memory State

Pool (Free)

Code & Stack

Temporary

Computations

Column Tables

Row Tables

System Tables

Used Memory

SAP HANA

Memory Pool

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VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

• Align IT infrastructure with business goals

• Dynamic allocation of compute resources

Managing SAP HANA databases

• Database workloads are both dynamic and transient

• Directs compute resources where needed

• Maintain database response times and SLA’s

DRS Automation Levels

• Manual – recommend initial placement and migrations

• Partially automated – initial placement automated; recommend migrations

• Fully automated – automated placement and migrations

Automated SAP HANA Management Infrastructure Abstraction

Dynamic

Resource

Scheduling

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VMware Easy Button DR

Hypervisor based - Virtual Machine Replication

• Reduced complexity and streamlined IT operations

• Infrastructure agnostic

• Simplified, non-impactful DR testing

• Complete stack replication including OS, application and database

• Automate the entire failover and failback process

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PREDICTABLE COSTS

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Highlights

Scale a virtual SAP HANA environment in 64 GB increments

Leverage dynamic storage tiering to reduce memory

requirements or hold memory sizing in place as SAP HANA

database size grows

VMware HA provides intrinsic cost savings for HA

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SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering – Service Pack 09 Extended Storage

SAP HANA

Warm Store

SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

• Query and update data through SAP HANA connection

• Application defines Hot/Cold data

“One Database” Experience

• Centralized monitoring and administration, unified backup/restore

Cost Effective Scaling vCloud Suite

• Terabyte scaling of cold/warm data

• Standard x86 servers

• Must use SAP sizing guidelines vSphere 5.5 vSphere 5.x

OS

Worker

Host

OS

ES Host

Certified or

commodity X86

Hardware

OS

Worke

r Host

Certified hardware

Queries & Updates

are Initiated Via SAP

HANA

Hot Store

SAP HANA Native

Tables SAP HANA

Extended Tables

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SAP HANA Hardware Costs Evolution

Multiple Databases

Simplification

Solutions Today Planned Innovation

SAP

HANA

Appliance

SAP HANA

Tailored

Data

Center

Integration

(TDI)

SAP

HANA

VMware

vSphere

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LOWER TOTAL COST OF

OWNERSHIP

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Highlights

24x7x365 support from world class experts that aren’t on

your payroll – No need to worry about sick days, vacations

or turnover.

Technology moves fast. With a hosted solution, you’re

always caught up.

Dedicated teams with SAP expertise.

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Why A Hosted Model Makes Sense

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RIGHT-SIZING YOUR SAP

HANA LANDSCAPE.

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Highlights

Precision and right sizing SAP HANA on vSphere (or in the

cloud)

Know your workload: Monitoring and health checks through

the business cycle

Determine consolidation ratios using performance and

capacity metrics

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Right Sizing SAP HANA

» SAP HANA Sizing

Quick Sizer

Evolving: SAP sizing much more precise

» VMware vRealize Right Sizing

SAP HANA BlueMedora Plug-In

Monitor memory and vCPU utilization

Add/Delete resources

• Underutilized – Deploy more SAP

HANA

• Over utilized – SAP HANA unleased

Workload management – vMotion/DRS

» Determine Consolidation Ratios

No over commitment and actual usage

characteristics

» Right Sizing

Do not stray from SAP sizing

recommendation

Right sizing over time – needs workload

monitoring & confidence ratios

Monitored CPU and Memory utilization during performance

testing

Consistent Memory Overhead SAP HANA on vSphere

Peak Disk Usage and Latencies

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Conclusions

» SAP HANA on vSphere is fully supported in production and has

great performance.

» Rigorous joint testing by SAP and VMware over two years found

zero functional errors with a 100% pass rate.

» Combining SAP HANA and vSphere provides additional benefits

with regards to deployment and availability.

» Some remaining customer slots for SAP on SAP HANA controlled

availability Proof Of Concepts

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!!!!

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Top Takeaway Points: Why it makes sense to

virtualize SAP HANA

Common Questions VMware/Secure-24 Responses

“How can I have HA within my

budget?”

• Intrinsic HA & DR built into VMware

“Does my organization need a 256 or

a 512? Is there anything in between?”

• Ability to scale up in 64 GB

increments

“We have a 256 today, but my

organization is growing”

• Quickly scale up or down,

depending on business need

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Questions

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