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Abstract
This white paper describes a new concept that revokes limitations of the current SAP HANA Appliance Model. With Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) on EMC enterprise storage, you can move SAP HANA into a private cloud and integrate it into an existing, well-established data center, providing multiple benefits.
April 2014
SAP HANA IN AN EMC PRIVATE CLOUD Tailored Data Center Integration and Virtualization
SAP HANA in the Private Cloud Enabled by EMC
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Table of contents
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................... 5 Business case .................................................................................................................................. 5
Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 6 Purpose ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Audience ......................................................................................................................................... 6
SAP HANA main building blocks for a private cloud .............................................................................. 7 Private cloud based on SAP HANA .................................................................................................... 8 Scalability of SAP HANA ................................................................................................................... 8
Single node ................................................................................................................................. 8 Multiple nodes ............................................................................................................................ 8 Scalability with table partitioning ................................................................................................ 9
TDI for SAP HANA ........................................................................................................................... 10 Virtualization ................................................................................................................................. 11 SAP HANA persistence ................................................................................................................... 13
SAP HANA I/O pattern ................................................................................................................ 13 SAP HANA management tools ........................................................................................................ 14
Integrating SAP HANA into an existing data center ............................................................................. 15 Data center architecture ................................................................................................................. 15 Hardware, processor, and operating system................................................................................... 15 Administration and operation of the infrastructure ......................................................................... 15 Storage network topology .............................................................................................................. 15 Storage scalability ......................................................................................................................... 15 Storage performance for load-balanced and separated workloads ................................................. 16
Fencing to prevent data corruption ............................................................................................ 16 Backup and recovery ...................................................................................................................... 16 System deployment ....................................................................................................................... 16 HA/DR ............................................................................................................................................ 16
SAP HANA in a data center enabled by EMC ........................................................................................ 18 Enterprise storage .......................................................................................................................... 19
EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage system ....................................................................................... 19 How to configure VMAX for large systems with dedicated HANA storage resources and workload isolation ..................................................................................................................... 20 How to scale VMAX .................................................................................................................... 21 SAP HANA HA for EMC block storage .......................................................................................... 21 SAP HANA storage replication with EMC SRDF ............................................................................ 22 SAP HANA system replication .................................................................................................... 24
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Backup .......................................................................................................................................... 24 SAP HANA backup and restore with EMC Data Domain .............................................................. 24
Virtualization ................................................................................................................................. 27
Building the ideal private cloud with EMC .......................................................................................... 28 Cloud-enabled infrastructure for SAP foundation ........................................................................... 29
Authorization concept ............................................................................................................... 30 Realtime monitoring .................................................................................................................. 30 Root cause analysis ................................................................................................................... 31 Benefits ..................................................................................................................................... 32
Cloud-enabled infrastructure fo
