Cisco UCS with NetApp Storage for SAP HANA Solution

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Cisco UCS® with NetApp Storage for SAP HANA Solution

Michael Moore CiscoScott McCullough NetApp


Agenda• Business challenges

• Cisco UCS solution with NetApp storage for SAP HANA solution

• Business continuity with disaster tolerance capabilities

• How Cisco can help


Cisco Unified Computing SystemA Single System: Compute, Network, Virtualization, Storage Access

Industry-standard, virtualization-aware x86-architecture servers with Cisco® innovations

Virtualization awareness and scalability without complexity

Server abstraction and API design for integration, automation, and orchestration through industry-standard tools

Unified Computing

Self-integrating components and policy-based automation

Pre-integrated infrastructure designed as a whole

Single UnifiedSystem

Unified Management

IntelligentInfrastructure

UnifiedFabric


Fastest Growing Product in the Market

23,000+ Unique Cisco UCS Customers

#2 WW market share in x86 blades

79 World-records on benchmarks (to date)

3,400+ Cisco UCS channel partners

44 ISVs writing to Cisco UCS API (and growing)

Tens of thousands of supported applicationsNumerous industry awards and certifications


Reduces Cost While Increasing Manageability

Scales Out Effectively

• Simplifies SAP landscapes while increasing manageability

• Scales capacity without complexity

• Lowers infrastructure cost per server

• Makes it easy to add resources

Accelerates Time to Results• Delivers rapid analysis and reporting

at less cost

Offers Visibility

Cisco UCS Powers SAP HANA

• Enables monitoring and automated remediation of physical servers, storage, and network devices

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Disaster Tolerance for SAP HANA


SAP HANA: A New Kind of Architecture• Primary persistence

• Resides in memory

• Holds contents of tables (data and undo log)

• Transaction log• Tracks all changes

• Gets written to disk when full or transaction commits

• Uses sequential writes (1 MB block size)

• Save point• Stores complete image of in-memory database

• Updates regularly (default: every 5 minutes)

• Uses random writes (variable block sizes)

SAP HANA

In-Memory Database

Persistence Layer (Disk)

Calculationand Planning

Engine

Row andColumnarStorage

Data Log


SAP HANA Node 3 Standby

SAP HANA Node 3 Worker

SAP HANA Node 4 Standby

1. Node Failure Occurs

SAP HANA Node 1Worker (nameserver)

SAP HANA Node 2 Worker

Storage Array

High Availability for SAP HANA

Data1FS

Log1FS

Data1Device

Log1Device

Data2FS

Log2FS

Data2Device

Log2Device

Data3Device

Log3Device

PGR PGR PGR PGR PGR PGR

2. Persistence Unmounted3. Reservation

Cleared4. New

Reservation Written

5. Persistent Storage

Re-mounted

6. In-Memory Database Rebuilt

7. Node Becomes a Worker Node

Controlled Failover of SAP HANA Nameserver

In-MemoryDatabase

In-MemoryDatabase

In-MemoryDatabase

Data3FS

Log3FS

In-MemoryDatabase8. When Available,

Node Becomes a Standby Node


Regular Operation with Cisco UCS

Data Center Network

Active SAP HANA Nodes

Active SAP HANA Storage

StandbySAP HANA Storage

QA and Development Nodes and Storage


Disaster Operations with Cisco UCS

Data Center Network

Failure Active SAP HANA Nodesand Storage

ActiveSAP HANA Storage

QA and Development Nodes and Storage


Disaster Tolerance Configuration• Production SAP HANA storage replicated to second side

• Non-production storage installed at second side

• Service profiles communicate with associated storage• Production to production storage, non-production to non-production storage

• Switch over time• Shutdown of non-production system (hard: 1 minute, graceful: 2-15 minutes)

• Import and activate production configuration: 5-15 minutes

• Boot all operating systems: 3 minutes


NetApp Snapshot Backup and Recovery

Step 1:SAP HANA Creates Application-Consistent Snapshot Copy

Step 2:Create Snapshot Copy At Storage Layer

Step 3:Snapshot Copies Replicated Asynchronously At Storage Layer

SAP HANA Database

10 Gigabit Ethernet

Compute Node 1

NFS

10 Gigabit Ethernet

Compute Node 2

NFS

10 Gigabit Ethernet

Compute Node 3

NFS

10 Gigabit Ethernet

Compute Node 4

NFS


SAP HANA Disaster Recovery with NetApp Storage

Active SAP HANA Database

10 Gigabit Ethernet

NFS

Passive SAP HANA Database

10 Gigabit Ethernet

NFS

Source A Mirror ASynchronousMirroring

Source B Mirror BSynchronousMirroring

NetApp FAS3250 MetroClusters


The Cisco Services Approach Accelerates Your Initiative

• Bring together people, processes, and technology

• Provide expertise in architecture, virtualization, and project management

• Align business, technical, and financial requirements

• Create a phased roadmap and lay the foundation for necessary security, compliance, process, and governance changes

• Deliver best-of-breed solutions with industry-leading partners

• Provide ongoing, management requirement support


Cisco RMS for SAP HANA Appliance• Enhanced service level above Cisco Solution Support Services• 24x7x365 monitoring and management by Cisco RMS Data Center

Operations Center for improved SAP application performance and availability, and minimized incident resolution time to repair

• Single point of contact and operations escalation for Cisco, SAP, and partner technologies

• Delivered through out-tasking approach allowing customer to maintain architectural and engineering strategy and direction

Cisco RMS

24x7x365 Appliance Monitoring Cisco Solution Support Service for SAP Appliances

24x7x365 Incident, Problem and Change Management Cisco SMARTNet Services

Elective Engineering Support Partner TAC ServicesDel

iver

able

s

Ser

vice

s

Storage LayerNetApp® FAS®

Network LayerCisco Nexus 5500

Application LayerSAP® HANA

Operating System LayerSuse Enterprise Linux 11 SP1

Compute LayerCisco® Unified Computing System™


• Discover and assess existing environment

• Help justify business migration requirements

• Help justify technical migration requirements

• Confirm customer priorities

• Analyze and confirm return-on-investment (ROI) requirements

• Determine migration time frames

• Provide an architecture assessment

• Provide a data analytics assessment

• Deliver a proof of concept (PoC)

• Help prepare for a sound implementation

Plan Services for SAP HANA

Assessment Service Planning and Design Service


• Assemble hardware and software for SAP HANA

• Verify components

• Install third-party solutions

• Ensure proper powering of chassis and components

• Validate correct installation of hardware and software

• Install the solution into your network

• Connect the solution to source systems

• Point the solution to proper data source(s)

• Conduct pre-installation interview and site survey

• Conduct a design review

• Extract data from outside sources

• Transform data to fit operational needs

• Load data into the database or warehouse

• Deliver a fully operational system

Implementation Services for SAP HANA

Assembly Service Installation Service Data Load Service

Cisco UCS with NetApp Storage for SAP HANA Solution

Technology

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