EMC Symmetrix V-Max for SAP Landscapes

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EMC Symmetrix V-Max for SAP Landscapes


SAP Customer Balancing Act

Meet ever-higher performance and scalability demands…

Database growth Non-production copies—number and size Time required for non-production staging Sustained performance Slow and costly operational recovery Applying SAP patches/enhancement packages

…while driving costs out Management complexities of the SAP landscape Drive to virtualization—Virtual Data Center for SAP Need to consolidate SAP Landscapes Energy consumption and costs


EMC and SAP

EMC and SAP have a strong partnership

8,500 joint customers 12 years successful partnering EMC is a SAP global technology partner, and a Software

partner EMC relationship includes:

– Charter memberships: SAP Titans of Technology; SAP’s Green IT Community

– Memberships: SAP Enterprise Services Community; SAP Virtual Community; SAP Adaptive Council

Jointly driving customer value Proven effectiveness through product testing and validation Quicker deployment by leveraging best practices and proven

solutions Reduced risk through joint support services


EMC|SAP Investments and Value

Shared Customers

SAP/ EMC product usage

Centers of Excellence

Common Initiatives, e.g., Green IT, Virtualization

SAP/EMC Co-Innovation

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Global citizen, efficiency

Innovation

Leverage best-in-class

Customer-driven

Customer result:


SAP and EMC Symmetrix Partnership

“SAP and EMC share a vision for making business processes seamless and flexible. Our companies have worked closely for more than a decade to address some of the most pressing data center challenges facing our enterprise customers.”

“The new Symmetrix systems, as part of our Center of Excellence environment, will enable us to work together to demonstrate customer proof of concepts, facilitate joint engineering work, and allow our mutual partners to run scalable SAP benchmarks in some of the areas of most interest to customers, including enterprise flash drives.”

— Ralf Lindenlaub, senior director, SAP NetWeaver Platform Services, SAP AG, April 2009


EMC Symmetrix V-Max

FLEXIBLE CONNECTIVITY: DEDICATED PROTOCOLS OR UNIFIED

CAPACITY SCALABILITY: ~1,000’S OF DISKS IN A SINGLE SYSTEM

IN THE ARRAY TIERING: FLASH DRIVES, FIBRE CHANNEL, SATA

REPLICATION: LOCAL AND REMOTE REPLICATION OPTIONS

SIMPLE, EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT: VIRTUAL PROVISIONING, QOS

DATA MOBILITY: VIRTUAL LUN, HETEROGENEOUS COPY OVER SAN


Symmetrix V-Max Addresses SAP Challenges

Virtual Matrix Architecture: Dynamically deliver performance on demand

Next-generation Tiering: Control costs and manage performance

Flash Drives: Sustain highest performance levels during peak times

Maximize performance in SAP landscapesMaintain service levels in dynamic environmentsMaximize performance and growth while minimizing cost

Enhanced Virtual LUN Technology: Places data on the storage tier that best meets performance and cost requirements

Auto-provisioning Groups: Automated SAP mapping

SAP Adaptive Computing: Virtualization

SAP infrastructure optimization and scaling on demand

Introduce new storage tiers without affecting host operationsTransparently change cost/performance layout to SAP landscapesEase of management

SRDF: Heterogeneous, federated data architectures within a single consistency group; extended distance protection—zero data loss

SAP liveCache Integration: Replication for high availability

TDMS Integration: Simplifies and automates data replication to use as source to ‘subset’ the SAP client

Replication and disaster recovery for production and non-production environments

Efficiently create copies of SAP production data for operations like patching, test/training, sandboxReduce data loss and downtime when replicating over long distance Manage dependent-write consistency for multiple databases


With Symmetrix V-Max You Can…

Aggregate all CPU, memory, bandwidth resources as a shared resource

Lower costs through tiering: Enterprise Flash; Fibre Channel; and SATA

EFDs for superior performance and increased efficiency

– Requires less power and cooling

SERVER RESOURCES

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Flash Drives Shatter Performance Barriers

Tenfold IOPS improvement

10x faster response time

38% less power per drive

98% less power per IO

58% less weight per TB

No moving parts for high reliability

OLTP Workload


Storage Tiering Allows Lower Costs and Optimized Service Levels

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38 percent more drive IOPsAnd more aligned with workloads

384 fewer drives144 Flash drives plus Fibre Channel drives plus SATA drives versus 528 Fibre Channel drives

32 percent less power and coolingAnd more efficient use of space

17 percent lower storage costsAnd reduced maintenance and software costs


Device activity reports identify target devices for flash and SATA

Identifying Flash and SATA Targets

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Start small and scale out to hundreds of engines federated across the data center

Dynamically balance workloads across all resources

Auto-provisioning tools reduce admin time by 90%+ versus current processes

Virtual Provisioning automatically allocates, adds, reclaims and rebalances storage capacity

Scale on demand and optimize the storage environment to meet SAP business requirements

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Auto-provisioning GroupsAutomates both mapping and masking operations

Port Group

Storage Group

Define a viewLink storage devices to array ports with host initiators

Create poolsHost InitiatorsArray portsStorage devices

Initiator Group

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Auto-provisioning for SAP

SAP application servers and database server

Initiator Groups

View Initiator Group Port Group Storage Group

SAP_CRM

AppSrv1 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevsAppSrv2 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevsAppSrv3 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevsAppSrv4 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevsAppSrv5 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevsAppSrv6 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevsAppSrv7 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevsSAPDB SAPCRM SAPCRMDevs

Device added, updates all initiator groups in the view!

Fabric

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Virtual LUN Technology

Enables transparent, nondisruptive data mobility between storage tiers for standard Symmetrix volumes

– Migration within array– Between storage tiers and/or RAID

protection type

Advantages – Introduce new storage tiers without host

side changes– Change application performance without

affecting filesystem mount points; business continuity, disaster recovery, backup scripts

– LUN movement using storage resources – Keep replication intact

SATATier 2

FlashTier 0

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Virtual LUN TechnologyMigrate within a Symmetrix System

Leverage lower tiers of storage – lower performance

– Provides the best performance without paying the highest cost

– Allows you to start with lower tier and if performance is not sufficient, use Virtual LUN to transparently migrate devices to preconfigured storage on higher tier

Increase usable storage within an array– Enables migration of an array from RAID 1 to

RAID 5 to increase efficiency – Allows you to add additional storage to the

array to a new physical disk group– Migrate all or part of existing devices to

unconfigured storage as RAID 5– Space freed up in original disk group can be

reconfigured as RAID 5 storage

Nondisruptive mobility of applications and data

Virtual LUNsTier 1Tier 2


Adaptive Computing

SAP Adaptive Computing

Computing: Servers and SAP Systems/Instances

– Easily add and remove computing resources

Network– Builds connections between computing and

storage building blocks– Provides transport layer for virtualization

Storage: Data– SAP instances can be managed and

assigned to any computing resource– Requires no local disk space

Control: Adaptive Computing Controller– Operate, observe, and manage an adaptive

business solution

any service – any time – on any server

NetworkComputing

StorageControl

Components

Founding member of the SAP Adaptive Council—first SAP Adaptive SAN implementations on EMC storage



Deliver “Five-9’s +” availability (average less than 5 minutes of downtime per year)

Support fully non-disruptive operations including code and configuration changes

Provide multi-site recovery and restart to prevent site and/or regional outages

Achieve “always on” availability that eliminates outages and improves service delivery to SAP users

Source

Near Site

Far Site

SRDF family—industry leading remote replication solution

Exclusive three-site data replication with continuous protection

New cost-effective zero data loss extended distance solution


Replication and Disaster Recovery for SAP

Disaster restart

Transforms tedious disaster recovery procedures into a simple disaster restart solution

Backup and recovery

Simplifies and speeds up backup and recovery operations without affecting application availability

Cloning

Enables fast cloning operations while maintaining high availability

– Intelligent Cloning Solution for Mainframe Implementations– Intelligent Cloning Solution Using RM for ABAP– Intelligent Cloning Solution Using RM for Java and dual stack

SAP

Systems share information…and need a consistent view

Backup

Recovery

Training

Testing

EMC Consistency

Groups


EMC TimeFinder Family

Industry-leading local replication

Highly integrated with all industry-leading applications, including SAP

Highly recommended with the SRDF family to enhance application availability for disaster restart requirements

Best functionality when compared to other major array-based local replication products

Supports tiered storage strategy

Tens of thousands of licenses shipped

TimeFinder FamilyTimeFinder/Clone

EmulationEnables use of existing

TimeFinder/Mirror scripts

TimeFinder/EIMExchange Integration

Module option

TimeFinder/CGConsistency

Group

TimeFinder/SIMSQL Integration Module

option

TimeFinder/CloneUltra-functional, high-performance copies

TimeFinder/SnapEconomical,

space-saving copies

Most breadth and depth for array-based local replication


Understanding Data Consistency

The logical dependency between write I/Os

– embedded by the logic of an application, operating system, or database management system

Applications and data are interrelated (Federated)

All data movement must be stopped/ started at the same point in time

To restart applications you must have all the data—not parts of it

Restart requires dependent-write consistency across all volumes and systems

Order Entry

SCM

CRM

DB

DB DB


EMC Consistency Technology Enables Federated Disaster Restart for SAP!

Dependent-Write

Consistent

Business point of consistency across operating platforms

for SAP!

RESTART

SAP CRM

SAP liveCache

SAP BI

SAP MDM

SAP APO

SAP EP

SAP SRM

SAP PI

SAP ERP


EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) Family

Choice and flexibility to meet any service-level requirement

World’s most widely deployed remote replication

Protect against local and regional disruptions

Increase application availability

Minimize/eliminate impact on application

Reduce downtime

Improve recovery-time objectives and recovery-point objectives

Provide near-instant recovery

Enable parallel processing

Support tiered storage strategy

SRDF Family SRDF/StarMulti-site replication

option

SRDF/ARAutomated Replication

option

SRDF/CECluster Enabler option

SRDF/CGConsistency Groups

SRDF/SSynchronous for

zero data exposure

SRDF/AAsynchronous for

extended distances

SRDF/DMEfficient Symmetrix-to-

Symmetrix data mobility

Cascaded SRDF and SRDF/EDPExtended Distance

Protection

Concurrent SRDFConcurrent


SAP liveCache

SAP has combined relational and object-oriented database technologies to create a new “species”—SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) liveCache

Hybrid database system can process enormous volumes of information, such as planning data for supply chain management

All data that must be accessible to the database system is located in the main memory

EMC provides an integration to enable SAP liveCache– Normal processing of Hot Standby for APO liveCache– Cluster failover for Hot Standby for APO liveCache– Reverse direction for Hot Standby for APO liveCache– Hot Standby data re-instantiation for APO liveCache

Can be leveraged with standard MaxDB hot standby configurations


Optional

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TestSAPTest

SAPDevSAP

DevSAPDev

SAPSBSAP

SBSAPSB

TDMS Integration with Replication ManagerSolution Using Intelligent Cloning

EMC Replication Manager with post-cloning cleanup processing automates the process and makes SAP system copies easy for SAP customers.

“Save time—increase productivity”

EMC RM/ADM with SAP post cloning

EMC RM/ADM with SAP post cloning

EMC Replication Managerwith SAP Post-Cloning

Cleanup

Clone or Snap, depends on customer requirement

Input for TDMS

SAP TDMSSAP TDMS

Optional Clones of Extract

SAP AdminStart from TDMS

SAPPRD DB

SAPReplica

SAPExtr.


Symmetrix V-Max’s Differentiation Highlights

Integrated support for SAP lifecycle – Seamless management and support for production and test

environments utilizing common toolset

Industry leading replication and failover – TimeFinder efficiently creates independent copies of SAP

production data for patching, test/training, and sandbox operations; no risk of losing snaps in case of file system corruption

– With PowerPath, V-Max failover times only a few seconds versus 30 seconds to several minutes

Industry gold standard for disaster recovery– SRDF delivers the most stringent RPO, RTO and geographical

service levels in the industry.

True non-disruptive data migration—reallocates data to different tiers without disruption, while maintaining disaster recovery

Industry’s only high-end architecture purpose built for fully virtualized IT


Building a Virtualized IT Environment:Start with a Single Symmetrix V-Max Engine

Virtual Servers

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Building a Virtualized IT Environment:Easily Add More Symmetrix V-Max Engines

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Building a Virtualized IT Environment:Federate Systems Across the Data Center

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The federated virtual matrix vision

Multiple generations of arrays

Managed as a single storage namespace

Seamless workload migration across the federation




EMC Technologies—Efficiency

Deduplication

FCoE

Flash Drives

B2D

Spin Down

Thin Provisioning

Active Archive

SATA Disks Multi-Protocol

Virtualization

iSCSI

Policy-based Mobility

QoS Tools

Tiering

Compression

SAN Copy


EMC—Creating a Green Standard

Source: Aberdeen Group, March 2008

Growth in:

Percent Energy Change for Every 10% in Storage Capacity

http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/aberdeen-group-emc-storage-benefits-green.pdf

“...users of EMC report increasing storage capacity without increasing operational cost...resulting in measurable benefits”

Data centerstorage powerconsumption

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Data centerutility cost

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Summary: Symmetrix V-Max for SAP Landscapes

Optimized performance– Virtual Matrix Architecture dynamically delivers performance – Maximizes storage tiering: Enterprise Flash Drive, FC, SATA

SAP infrastructure optimization and scaling on demand– Simpler management with Auto-provisioning Groups– Enhanced Virtual LUN Technology– SAP Adaptive Computing

Replication and disaster recovery for production and non-production environments

– Foundation technology—EMC consistency technology– Completes SAP liveCache in-memory database – TDMS Integration

Symmetrix V-Max differentiation– V-Max for fully virtualized IT – V-Max technologies for efficiency


Large SAP Customer Landscape

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