ERP implementation (Sap, Peoplesoft,...)on NFS storage by Eric Franckx (It Architect)

NorthgateArinso HR-IT Solutions

Global Infrastructure Virtualization

Eric Franckx

Enterprise IT Architect

Agenda

Introduction - NorthgateArinso

Chalenges and Pain Points

Server Virtualization - VWMARE

Storage Virtualization - NETAPP

Next Steps ?

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NorthgateArinso HR-IT Solutions

VMWARE


Operating in 35 countries Delivering in 68 countries

Regional Offices HR Shared Service

Centers/Offices

Scale

• c. 8,000 staff in 35 countries

• Global HR service delivery network :

• 20 HR shared service centers worldwide

• clients in over 100 countries speaking

25 languages

• over 100 HR BPO customers

• over 1,000 ERP-based HR

implementations globally

• supporting over 1/3 of the UK workforce

Global reach, local delivery A unique HR-centric business model

In HR Outsourcing, our total footprint now

includes 16 global service centers and over

100 comprehensive HR BPO contracts.We

are now able to deliver HRO services in 25

languages in over 100 countries around the

world.

In HR Technology, we can provide the widest

choice in software options available in the

marketplace. We are innovators in platform-

based BPO.

In HR Consulting, we‟ve established the

world‟s leading HR technology consulting

practice, with over 3,000 HR technology

specialists. We are focused on providing a

wide portfolio of HR services to both local

and global customers.

Scope

• Unique HR-centric business model: HR

Outsourcing, HR Consulting & HR Technology

• Unique HR process capabilities: from HR

administration, over payroll, to talent

management and HR analytics

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What makes NorthgateArinso unique?

• Named hottest SaaS provider in the industry by ERP Executive

• 2010 SAP Pinnacle Award – BPO Provider of the Year

• 2010 BPO Provider of the Year

• 2009 Winner Top HR Product of the Year by HR Executive

• 2009 HROA Awards for Technology Partnership & Thought

leadership

• 2008 Named Major Outsourcer of the Year by the IPP

• 2008 SAP Pinnacle Award – BPO Provider of the Year

• 2006 SAP Pinnacle Award – Global Customer Satisfaction

• Ranked as top 3 HRO player by HRO Today

• Largest SAP HCM consultancy practice globally with

over 3,000 experienced consultants


NGA HR Excellence: Delivered.

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Convergys HRM acquisition: stronger together

This acquisition is key to NorthgateArinso achieving its

global vision for growth and worldwide service

delivery. In joining with Convergys‟ HRM division, we

are:

• Creating the world‟s number one company providing HR software

and services

• Strengthening our position and brand in the key US marketplace

and around the world

• Enabling our staff to provide a world-class service to our

customers wherever they are based, so they can provide world-

class delivery to their workforce

• Creating a deal that is transformational, exciting and historic

APAC Capabilities

7

Europe Capabilities

8

North America Capabilities

9

Latam Capabilities

10

Global Service Delivery Network

Buenos Aires RDC

HRO/AMO | 180 FTE

Newfoundland RDC

HRO/AMO | 500 FTE

Cincinnati COE

HRO/AMO | 100 FTE

Jacksonville RDC

HRO/AMO | 750 FTE

Sao Paulo RDC

HRO | 100 FTE

Budapest RDC

HRO | 150 FTE

Kuala Lumpur GDC

SI/Testing/OB/IS

330 FTE

Manila GDC

HRO/AMO/SI

250 FTE

Hyderabad GDC

AMO | 100 FTE

Kochi GDC

HRO | 250 FTE

Local Delivery Centers

•Americas: Austin, TX, Tallahassee, FL, Mexico, MX

•EMEA: Brussels, BE, Paris, FR, Aix-en-Provence, FR, Nieuwegein, NL, Frankfurt, DE,

Peterborough, UK, Milan, IT, Durban, SA, Moscow, RU, Helsinki, FI, Stockholm, SE, Zürich,

CH, Tel Aviv, IL, Casablanca, MA

•APAC: Bangalore, IN, Adelaide, AU, Wellington, NZ

Global & Regional Delivery Centers

•Americas: Jacksonville, FL, Topsail, CA, Cincinnati, OH, Buenos Aires , AR, Sao

Paulo, BR , Montreal, CA

•EMEA: Granada, ES, Budapest, HU, Katowice, PL

•APAC: Dalian, CH, Mumbai, IN, Bangalore, IN, Adelaide, AU

Mumbai GDC

HRO | 200 FTE

Dalian RDC

HRO | 50 FTE

Katowice RDC

HRO | 80 FTE

Granada GDC

AMO/SI/OB | 300 FTE

DCA

Anderlecht

Belgium

DCB

Diegem

Belgium

DCC

Atlanta-Georgia

US

DCF

Singapore

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Agenda





Next Steps ?


Challenges: CXO

CXO Challenges

Reduce TCO

Increase flexibility

Improve Security

Improve system

performance

Simplify by < x platforms

Grow, new markets


Challenges : Customers & Businesses

Customers &

Businesses Agility

Facility

Dynamic

Cost effective

Become a Partner


Agenda





Next Steps ?



Traditional x86 Architecture

• Single OS image per machine

• Software and hardware tightly coupled

• Multiple applications often conflict

• Underutilized resources

Old Standard Server Approach


Previous Application Landscape

Data Base

Data Base

Data Base

In traditional application deployments, there can be significant server sprawl primarily due to the need to provision separate systems for:

• development (DEV),

• quality assurance/test (QAS)

• production (PRD) environments.

Data Base

Data Base

• What about hundreds of customers

(and systems) ?

• Complexity of large implementation ?


Virtualized (Shared) Architecture

• Virtualization ESX Server

• Runs directly on hardware

• Advanced Resource Management (cpu, memory, disk, network)

• High performance and high throughput

• SMP Capability

• Clustering across physical servers

• Multi-OS supported

Actual Virtualization Approach (1/2)


• Reduce costs by consolidating services onto the fewest number of

physical machines as Infrastructure needs

•Maintenance, Leases

•Networking

•Floor space, Cooling, Power

•Disaster Recovery

• Provide failover and high availability

• Isolate environment but shared hardware

• Make better use of capacity

• Remove/reduce the limited flexibility in shared environments

• Provide more opportunity for server maintenance during normal working hours

• Allow heterogeneous environments (OS) on the same hardware

Actual Virtualization Approach (2/2)


Virtualization Features

• DRS Business-customer Impact ?

• HA Business-customer Impact ?

• VMOTION Business-customer Impact ?

• Align IT resources with business priorities,

• Operational simplicity; dramatically increase system administrator productivity,

• Add hardware dynamically to avoid over-provisioning to peak load

• Cost effective high availability for all applications,

• No need for dedicated stand-by hardware,

• None of the cost and complexity of clustering

• Zero downtime,

• Complete transaction integrity,

• Continuous service availability,

Hardware maintenance without scheduling


Virtualization

Additional Business Advantages …

• Rapid Provisioning & Change Management

• Each new major Application release requires 20-25% more resources

• Move old systems to new hardware easily

• Free-up space from old hardware,

• Benefit from compute power immediately

• Simple maintenance of old application system for compliance

• Realize immediate ROI

• Decrease data centre costs: hardware, labor, floor space, energy,

cooling

• Easier to manage less resource

• Agility & Adaptive

• Can align/adjust/adapt faster „business/application‟ to the market

changes/business requirements.


Virtualization New Challenges …

• Security

• The virtual layer will become a potential target for attack for the virtual

services (multiple virtual machine) being hosted.

• Network access (dedicated NIC, VLAN, …)

• Management

• Costs estimation, ROI, …

• Additional tools

• Storage

• To be optimum, a SAN/NAS is “required”.

• VMWARE features (Vmotion, HA, DRS…)

• Backup/restore/DR

• Space efficiency

Virtualization Some Figures

• 20 ESX servers in DCA, 20 ESX servers in DCB

• ESX servers used for ERP (customers)

• ESX servers used for DMZ

• Total Virtual Machines : +/- 450

• ERP DCA = xx

• DMZ DCA = xx

• ERP DCB = xx

• DMZ DCB = xx

Agenda





Next Steps ?


Previous Storage Approach

Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer XXX

Easy design and architecture

Very inefficient to manage

Very inefficient capacity usage

Bad TCO and ROI

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± 30 SAN

Actual Storage Infrastructure Belgium (1/2)

FAS-3070

LABO Humaniteitslaan BXL

FAS-3040 FIL-DCA-AR-01

FIL-DCA-AR-02

FAS-2050 FIL-DCA-CL-NOR-01

FIL-DCA-CL-NOR-02

DC1 Paepsemlaan BXL

FAS-3140 SP-DCA-ERP-T1N1

SP-DCA-ERP-T1N2

FAS-3140 SP-DCA-ERP-T2N1

SP-DCA-ERP-T2N2

FAS-3020 FIL-DCB-AR-01

FIL-DCB-AR-02

FAS-2050 FIL-DCB-SC-01

FIL-DCB-SC-02

DC2 Culliganlaan Diegem

FAS-3140 SP-DCB-ERP-T1N1

SP-DCB-ERP-T1N2

FAS-3140 SP-DCB-ERP-T2N1

SP-DCB-ERP-T2N2


Data Centre Tier Head Shelves Disk Size Type

DCA

1

1 3 300 FC

1 450 FC

2 3 300 FC

1 450 FC

2

1

4 500 SATA

1 1000 SATA

1 450 FC

2 4 500 SATA

1 450 FC

DCB

1

1 3 300 FC

1 450 FC

2 3 300 FC

1 450 FC

2

1

4 500 FC

1 1000 SATA

1 450 FC

2 4 500 SATA

1 450 FC

37 170 TB usable


• First contact in 2006 – Storage Vendor Message

• VMware NFS message

• Snapshot

• SnapMirror vs MetroCluster

• MultiStore

• Deduplication

• Test system – Seeing is believing

• VMware on NFS

• MultiStore

• Oracle on NFS

• Snapshot

• SnapManager Oracle, SAP, VI

• Backup to disk



Thin Provisioning, FlexVol®

Deduplication - Compression

Snapshot - SnapRestore

Thin Replication - SnapMirror®

Virtual Cloning - FlexClone®

FC - SATA

RAID-DP

Storage Efficiency

Business-customer Impact ?

• Higher Data Protection

• Provides Double Disk Failure Protection,

• Dramatic improvement in data protection at no additional cost,

• Optimized for Performance while providing maximum protection

• Reduces RAID group Rebuild Time while reducing RISK limiting exposure

to same RAID group second disk failure or non-recoverable media error.

• Higher capacity and lower cost.

• Compared to competitive offerings requiring RAID1/0 to provide similar

double disk failure protection double disk drive costs


Storage Features:

Disk Failure RAID-DP



Storage Features: Pool of Disk/Space Aggregate

• Can be grown by adding more disks,

• Can have multiple per system performance &

granularity,

• Separates physical allocation from space visible to users,

• Manage the storage pool as a resource independent of the

volumes.



Storage Features:

Flexible Space Allocation FlexVol

• Improve data management capabilities

• Volumes can be sized dynamically

• Can grow or shrink no disruptively

• Can be as small as a few MBs and as large as TBs (16)

• No pre-allocation of blocks to a specific volume

• Free space flows among all FlexVols in an aggregate;

space reallocation without any overhead

• Benefits of Thin Provisioning

• Increasing I/O Performance (spindle)

File Systems Stored in Dynamic Flexible Volumes

Flexible Volumes

(2TB Provisioned)

Aggregate Physical Storage

(1TB Total)

RAID Groups

1TB

300

GB

200

GB

200 GB

50 GB

150 GB

100 GB



Storage Features: Backup/Restore Snapshot/SnapRestore

• Original data is never re-written (WAFL) faster snapshot as

competition:

• Copy pointers only,

• No data movement,

• No performance impact align with SLA (response time, …),

• Support a high number of snapshot of the same data (volume),

• Longer restore history capacity

• Faster restore optimum RTO & RPO



Storage Features: Manage Share IOPS FlexShare

• Provides for more effective storage consolidation,

• Critical workloads get fastest response when controller is fully loaded,

• Storage administrator can make on-the-fly adjustments,

• Business-critical applications receive I/O priority.

Storage Features: Space Efficiency De-duplication


Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays NetApp® FAS System

Duplicate Data

Is Eliminated

Dedup saving between 30% and 75%



Storage Features: Backup to Disk SnapVault

• Cost-effective, disk-to-disk backup for data center and remote offices:

• Simplify backup administration,

• Accelerate backup and recovery,

• Minimize storage costs,

• Centralize remote site backup over WAN

• Efficient backup solution:

• Transfer only block-level incremental changes,

• Store only changed data,

• Eliminated tape at remote sites

• Full file system in original format:

• Access backups as full file system or LUN images,

• Backup copies are open and accessible



Storage Features: Replication SnapMirror (sync & a-sync)

• Cost-effective solution

• Mirror between FC and ATA systems

• Leverages Snapshots – efficient storage and bandwidth utilization

• Simplifies deployment and management,

• Simple set up and recovery

• Single product across all storage systems

• Leverages SnapManager®, ensuring replication of application consistent

snapshots

• Puts DR copy to active business use

• Space efficient copies without impacting production system,

• Remote read access for centralized backup, data distribution to remote

sites

Storage Features: Replication SnapMirror (sync & a-sync)


NetApp NearStore

System

Clustered NetApp

Storage Systems

NetApp NearStore

System

Facility 1

SnapMirror Clustered NetApp

Storage Systems

SnapVault SnapVault

Facility 2

Storage Features: Management Software 4 Years ago ...

• Test all SnapManagers during POC

• Nice tools if you want a graphical interface

• Works fine to make a Snapshot

• Poor integration with SnapMirror

• NO integration with SnapVault

• Created custom scripts for Oracle and SAP

• Created custom scripts for Vmware based on VIBE script, SnapCreator

• Now testing Snapmanagers again

Storage Features: Protocol NFS ???

Strengths Delivers best IO scaling for

shared datastores

Simplest storage management

Transparent storage virtualization

Inexpensive storage networking

Eliminates storage dead spots

No restriction with vSphere feature set

Be Aware: Not as common outside of NetApp & EMC installs

Our largest customers have adopted NFS for simplicity and scalability

64 Datastore limit

– Non-issue due to density of the datastore

NetApp key differentiator in the market

vFiler

FlexVol

VM VM

FlexVol

VM VM VM

vFiler

FlexVol

VM VM

vFiler

FlexVol

VM VM

MultiStore

vFiler vFiler vFiler

Create secure logical partitions

Multi-tenant customers

Departments

Applications

Storage Features: Security MultiStore

NFS Storage Implementation Recommended layout (1/3) swap

• When combining with NetApp Snap* technologies conserve Snapshot space by separating valuable data from transient data

Option 1

Separate vSwap

Option 2

Separate vSwap & GOS Swap

NFS Storage Implementation Recommended layout (2/3) OS disk


VMWARE ESX Server

OS

APP

VMWARE ESX Server

Vlan-Y

Vlan-Y

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

NFS

• HA/performance : vswitch / x Nics

• Security: Vfiler, Dedicated VLAN

• Protocol: DataStore(s) mounted via NFS

• Space Efficency : set Dedup on

• OS = a dedicated disk = VMDK

NFS Storage Implementation Recommended layout (3/3): Database


VMWARE ESX Server

Vlan-Y

OS

APP

VMWARE ESX Server Vlan-Y

OS

ORACLE

DB

DATA

Vlan-X

Vlan-X

NFS

NFS

NFS

• HA/performance : vswitch / x Nics

• Security: Vfiler, Dedicated VLAN

• Protocol: DataStore(s) mounted via NFS

• Space Efficency : set Dedup off

• Database = a dedicated volume

NFS Storage Implementation Review RTO/RPO policies


Snapshot

Hourly Snapshots

- Every hour from 06.00h till 22.00h

- Retention is 18

Daily Snapshot

- Retention is 9

SnapVault Runs with the same schedule

as regular snapshots.

Retention is 30.

SnapMirror Every hour on PROD

Once a day for DEV/QAS (depends on the customer)

Datastores One daily Snapshot (retention 7),

SnapMirror, SnapVault (retention 30)

NFS

NFS Storage Implementation Oracle on VMware

Export DB

DB1 DB2

Export Log

Log1 Log2

Datastore2

Swap1 Swap2

Datastore1

OS1 OS2

NFS

SUSE Linux

Enterprise

FlexClone®

FlexClone®

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Production

Call support

Keep production running while you serve

Oracle’s request to be eligible for their support

Agenda





Next Steps ?



NFS Storage Implementation New challenges ...

• Security

• Share data of multiple customers on same box

• Audit ?

• Limit Access to data ? (Multistore, NFS, Kerberos, VLAN,…)

• Data protection

• Encryption ? (database level Oracle , storage level

Decru, …)

• Type of data: Online data, offline data ?

• Offline backup

• Mirror Snapvault (disk backup ) between data centre

• Customer acceptance (cultural)



Storage Features: Instant Image/Copy FlexClone

• Enables multiple, instant data set clones with no storage overhead:

• Immediate,

• No performance implications,

• Dramatic improvement for application test and development

environments

• Large space savings for similar volumes,

• Use database clones to test migrations, apply bug fixes, upgrades,

and patches

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